When I started to imagine my cookery workshop, one of the main things i wanted to offer was soemthing I’d especially like to find myself when elsewhere... a way to connect with the local food culture way beyond restaurants…
Local gastronomy when counted by the locals, a mix of history, anecdote, observation and culinary formula, gives insight beyond the beaten tourist track. When a local introduces you to the food, tells you all sorts of things about it, tells you where to encounter the best produce, shows you how to cook it and cooks it with you, you can start to understand their cuisine, their culture, their "savoir vivre" (how to live).
Discover the art of catalan cuisine which, despite it’s ancient origins, uses ingredients that are familiar, well-liked and easily found back home. What it does with those ingredients is, on the other hand quite unfamiliar. In fact, it’s not what we would expect at all, but very accessible to those who wish to learn. I dare to say that you will fall in love wth it! This is a cuisine where less is always more and you can learn how to make a meal based on dry bread rubbed with garlic and tomato, as pictured in the post above... Or try more exuberant combinations for something wildly sophisticated (keep on reading...)
My workshops take place in the kitchen of my home, a traditional fisherman‘s house, on a small pedestrian street right in the heart of Collioure, only a few short steps away from the sea.
While we are at it, there is even plenty of time to talk about the best places to shop, the best restaurants, the best places to visit this and that side of the spanish border, and even the best beaches !
When everything is ready we can sit down to taste and enjoy the dishes of our labour, and somehow local wines and very often local wine-producers, always seem to finish off at my table too…
When I started to imagine my cookery workshop, one of the main things i wanted to offer was soemthing I’d especially like to find myself when elsewhere... a way to connect with the local food culture way beyond restaurants…
Local gastronomy when counted by the locals, a mix of history, anecdote, observation and culinary formula, gives insight beyond the beaten tourist track. When a local introduces you to the food, tells you all sorts of things about it, tells you where to encounter the best produce, shows you how to cook it and cooks it with you, you can start to understand their cuisine, their culture, their "savoir vivre" (how to live).
Discover the art of catalan cuisine which, despite it’s ancient origins, uses ingredients that are familiar, well-liked and easily found back home. What it does with those ingredients is, on the other hand quite unfamiliar. In fact, it’s not what we would expect at all, but very accessible to those who wish to learn. I dare to say that you will fall in love wth it! This is a cuisine where less is always more and you can learn how to make a meal based on dry bread rubbed with garlic and tomato, as pictured in the post above... Or try more exuberant combinations for something wildly sophisticated (keep on reading...)
My workshops take place in the kitchen of my home, a traditional fisherman‘s house, on a small pedestrian street right in the heart of Collioure, only a few short steps away from the sea.
While we are at it, there is even plenty of time to talk about the best places to shop, the best restaurants, the best places to visit this and that side of the spanish border, and even the best beaches !
When everything is ready we can sit down to taste and enjoy the dishes of our labour, and somehow local wines and very often local wine-producers, always seem to finish off at my table too…
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