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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 [...]

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 [...]

French Cookery Class – One Day Trip To Nice

French Cookery Class – One Day Trip To Nice

Private chef, supper club host, cookery teacher & writer, and self-confessed travel-junkie Sabrina Ghayour joined GoLearnTo on a one day culinary extravaganza in Nice and took our one day cookery course. Below she writes up her review of the day for The BespokeBlog…. “Culinary Come Fly With Me: Day Trip [...]

Cooking holiday in Dordogne

Cooking holiday in Dordogne

Dedicated foodie Veronica Yuill, freshly returned from our cookery holiday in beautiful Dordogne spoils us with her delicious descriptions on her blog.  Warning: May cause serious hunger! “But you already know how to cook,” said friends when I told them I was going on a 5-day cooking course, “and you [...]

Cut it as a French Chef on a cookery weekend in Gramont

Cut it as a French Chef on a cookery weekend in Gramont

GoLearnTo.com is proud to have a four page feature in Waitrose Kitchen magazine this month with its wonderful cookery holiday in Gramont near Toulouse in South West France. Ten minutes into our first lesson and the scene is rather gory. My knife was supposed to cut horizontally into an onion, [...]