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Cookery holiday in Toulouse featured in Staffordshire Living today

Cookery holiday in Toulouse featured in Staffordshire Living today

Christmas is in the air. Lifestyle magazine Staffordshire Living featured our cookery holiday in Toulouse in its Christmas issue, fresh from the press today.  Need some Christmas gift ideas? Read on! The gift that keeps on giving We’ve now come leaps and bounds beyond the original Red Letter Days with [...]

A cookery lesson in foie gras

A cookery lesson in foie gras

Just last year, foie gras was like a mystery food from France to me. A sophisticated-sounding mystery, making it all the more intriguing. I knew it’s French, and it’s some sort of food made from the insides of some animal. And it’s served at the tables of expensive restaurants. That [...]

by October 11, 2013 Cooking holidays and wine
The Great Bordeaux Bake hOliday

The Great Bordeaux Bake hOliday

(Pronouncing “holiday” the French way sounds something like “oliday”. So that gives you the Great Bordeaux Bake Oliday – GBBO! Completely legit.) Did you watch The Great British Bake Off last night? It made us so hungry. When Kimberley said that her sister, her resident food taster, “literally walks right [...]

Alternative France – vacations that escape the tourist trail

Alternative France – vacations that escape the tourist trail

Even to the most frequent visitor, France has much to offer. Sick of bus tours where everyone is herded into the same souvenir shops? Here are a few alternative French vacations that will take you off the beaten track and into the heart of the French culture. Photography holiday in [...]

Karen’s review of her pastry making holiday in Bordeaux, where ‘everything was fantastic’

Karen’s review of her pastry making holiday in Bordeaux, where ‘everything was fantastic’

Karen had such an amazing time on our pastry making holiday in France that her only problem was deciding which her favourite part was! Read on to find out more about the best moments, lovely people and wonderful takeaways on her delicious holiday.   Best moments I had an amazing [...]

Top 5 cooking vacations in France

Top 5 cooking vacations in France

“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.” – Norman Douglas, British novelist. The French love their food, and are indisputably good at creating those exquisite culinary delights such [...]

Top 5 Cooking Vacations

Top 5 Cooking Vacations

Where would you “go learn to” cook? We have put together this selection of the top 5 cooking vacations, set in great locations from the rolling hills in Italy to the cliff tops with stunning views in Thailand. Discover the taste of a place on a GoLearnTo.com cookery holiday. Luxury [...]

Top 5 luxury cookery vacations in France

Top 5 luxury cookery vacations in France

The country that gave us champagne and camembert is justly famous for its cooking vacations. We’ve travelled across France from Bordeaux to Provence to curate a luxury range of cookery vacations guaranteed to delight your senses. Discover a taste of France with our top 5 luxury cooking vacations: 1. Luxury [...]

Our French cook Marlene’s passion for sharing her family’s recipes

Our French cook Marlene’s passion for sharing her family’s recipes

“It always blows me away that people on the other side of the world are producing my 92-year-old grandma’s recipes, I love telling her that.” From the minute our French cook Marlene was old enough to hold a spoon she was old enough to cook – as far as her [...]

by June 12, 2013 Cooking holidays and wine, Our chefs
French patisserie cooking course near Bordeaux – Jennifer’s fantastic review of baking, eating, baking, eating!

French patisserie cooking course near Bordeaux – Jennifer’s fantastic review of baking, eating, baking, eating!

If you love sugary treats and sweet pastries, this is the holiday for you! Jennifer wanted to improve her baking skills and relax on holiday at the same time, so she joined our French patisserie cooking course near Bordeaux for a culinary experience like no other with our friendly chef [...]