Mayenne, France
33-24-398-5002
Cooking Classes
Cooking Demonstrations
Culinary Team Building
Culinary Vacation
Guided Culinary Tours
French
Your hosts and tutors are acclaimed chefs Maynard Harvey and Benedict Haines, two modern chefs who use the freshest ingredients with an emphasis on distinct flavors and clean, meticulous presentation. Their passion and enthusiasm for cooking will stimulate your own love of food, and their expertise will help you gain confidence and perfect your cooking skills and techniques in the kitchen.
At the Walnut Grove, we always maintain a maximum of four people to one chef, so you always get personal attention. Our professionally equipped kitchen is located across the courtyard from the farmhouse and has been exclusively designed for our culinary vacations. With a high ceiling and exposed beams, our large kitchen is light and airy and retains a soft country ambiance, ideal for learning to cook.
You will work with a full range of professional equipment and experiment under the watchful eyes of your chefs. Our cookery course experience ranges from home-smoking that you can do in your own oven, stocks and sauces, caramel sugar cages and even the fun of making your own candy floss, or as its called in France "Barbe à Papa" (Papa's Beard)!
Enjoying cooking is all about confidence, being relaxed and understanding your ingredients. Skillfully combining flavors, textures and presentation is within all of us, our aim at the Walnut Grove is to bring these qualities out, so that you have the ability to follow your own flair and imagination.
Each day, you'll experiment with new flavors and new techniques using the freshest ingredients with expert guidance. Because our courses are run with a professional yet relaxed holiday atmosphere, we believe that this is the ideal way of combining a holiday with culinary development.
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