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  1. 1La Cuisine ParisLa Cuisine ParisParis, French baking. If the thing you most want to master is the croissant, book this one. The three-hour class takes you through laminated dough, pastry cream and shaping, and covers croissants, pain au chocolat and pain au raisin. Proper croissants take more than six hours, so some dough is…0
  2. 2La Vecchia Scuola BologneseLa Vecchia Scuola BologneseBologna, fresh egg pasta. This is the serious one. Founded by Alessandra Spisni, the school trains professional sfogline, Bologna's hand pasta makers, on a three-month course with compulsory attendance. Holidaymakers get a concentrated taste of that teaching in one day. The Saturday Tortellini Day…0
  3. 3Amal Targa Centre Cooking ClassesAmal Targa Centre Cooking ClassesMarrakech, Moroccan home cooking. For your tagine lesson, head out to a garden kitchen where the fee does some good. Amal is a non-profit that trains women in its kitchens and helps them into work, and its classes help pay for that training. At the Targa centre you choose your dish when you book:…0
  4. 4Shashi Cooking ClassesShashi Cooking ClassesUdaipur, Indian vegetarian home cooking. This is the class to take if Indian food at home has never tasted like it does in India. Shashi teaches in her own small family kitchen in the old city, usually to groups of three or four, so you get real attention rather than a place at the back of a…0
  5. 5Thai Farm Cooking SchoolThai Farm Cooking SchoolChiang Mai, Thai cooking. The detail that sells this farm school is the mortar: everyone gets their own, and you pound your own curry paste. Once you can do that, most Thai curries are within reach at home. The day starts with a stop at a local market, then a drive to the family's organic farm…0
  6. 6Paon Bali Cooking ClassPaon Bali Cooking ClassUbud, Balinese cooking. Puspa runs this class in her family home in Laplapan village, and the morning session earns its early start with a traditional market visit and a walk through the rice fields to see how the Subak water system feeds them. The key lesson is base gede, the spice paste behind a…0
  7. 7Red Bridge Cooking SchoolRed Bridge Cooking SchoolHoi An, central Vietnamese cooking. This is market-to-table in the most literal order. You tour the Hoi An market, take a boat of about 25 minutes along the river to the school, walk its herb garden, and only then start cooking. The chefs demonstrate each dish first and you then make it yourself,…0
  8. 8Haru Cooking ClassHaru Cooking ClassKyoto, Japanese home cooking. Skip the sushi workshop: this is the class for the food Japanese families actually eat on a weeknight. Taro Saeki has taught from his own home in the Shimogamo area since 2010, with no more than eight guests at a time cooking together. The standard menu is four…0
  9. 9El Sabor ZapotecoEl Sabor ZapotecoOaxaca, Zapotec home cooking. For a full day in a real Oaxacan kitchen, this is the one. Reyna Mendoza teaches in her own home in Teotitlán del Valle, a Zapotec village about 30 minutes from Oaxaca City, and transport from the city centre is included. The day opens with a welcome cup of chocolate…0
  10. 10SkyKitchen Peruvian Cooking ClassesSkyKitchen Peruvian Cooking ClassesLima, Peruvian cooking. Lima is where you learn ceviche, and SkyKitchen's classic menu gives you Peru's best-known dishes in one go: causa, ceviche, lomo saltado and picarones. That is a cold potato starter, raw fish, a wok-fired beef main and fried doughnuts for pudding, so you leave with a…0