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Pots, Pans and Pastries Beat Sightseeing Any Day

February 27, 2008 at 9:05 AM | 0 Comments

The travel reporters at the UK Times seem to have decided that vacationing without an educational purpose is strictly off the agenda this year. Continuing their long line of learning holidays reports, they've just published a round-up for cooking holidays throughout the world, and this time they've got suggestions way beyond your standard French or Italian cooking escape.

For example, you might want to spend a week in Turkey, shopping and preparing a six course vegetable and fish feast, or alternatively you might whip up some tagines or almond pastries at the Dar Liqama near Marrakesh in Morocco. And learning how to make tapas from El Txoko del Gourmet, in San Sebastian, Spain, sounded great until their website said that you'll learn "how to enhance a simple potato to obtain an unsuspected taste scum."

Farther afield, there's the so-called "School of Wok" in Thailand, south Indian vegetarian cooking in Kerala or cheese-making courses in the Cape region of South Africa. If these ideas don't make you hungry for travel, nothing will.

Related Stories:
· 14 Tasty Cookery Courses [UK Times]
· Cook the (Really) French Way [Jaunted]
· Bologna's Make-Your-Own-Dinner Vacation [Jaunted]

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