cooking classes

Food Wine Tours, Gastronomic experiences

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Catalogue of Experiences

COOKING CLASSES 2012 Proposals for individuals, groups and incentives


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Cook while chatting with friends, enjoy a glass of wine and follow our chef’s and gastronomes instructions and tips.

Food Wine tours cooking activities are fun but didactic, creative but with traditional basis, from low to high difficulty, participative and pleasant.

You will find the chef inside you, whether you are a beginner or an experimented cook... even if you have never used a table board… You’d never thought cooking was so much fun.

Our cooking activities are very diverse and some of them are partially outdoor, next to the sea. They can be adapted to a corporate event or for any kind of group.

Cook with your friends or colleagues, make your own appetizers, try your self-made paella, delight a mouth-watering desert and… make a toast with a well deserved glass of cava. For more information and reservations: Telephone: +34 93 317 19 09 Skype: Ociovital.Laia Ociovital.Antonio General Information: [email protected] Reservations: [email protected] Comercial: [email protected]

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Index

Traditional Cooking Classes in Barcelona .................................................................. 4

Cooking at the Chef’s House & Gastronomic Tour in Barcelona ................................ 6

Paella Cooking ......................................................................................................... 8

Paella cooking in Sitges ............................................................................................ 9

Cooking class of Pintxos paired with Wines ............................................................ 10

Spring on your table ............................................................................................... 11

Textures Cooking Class ........................................................................................... 12

The genius Cuisine of a Michelin Starred Chef......................................................... 13

Home cooking at the Chef’s in Sevilla ..................................................................... 14


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Traditional Cooking Classes in Barcelona

Join Food & Wine Tours cooking classes and discover the secrets of our local traditional cuisine. Learn how to cook the typical dishes of the region and taste the menu prepared in a friendly atmosphere.

Enjoy while cooking, play with the ingredients and savor the dishes you have prepared, while enjoying one day with your friends or colleagues.

Cooking lessons are hands-on, intimate, fun, informative and full of tips and tricks of the trade. You are encouraged to discover and explore the tastes and textures of some of the finest ingredients from fresh fish casseroles (cassola) to “mar i montanya” and rice dishes, fresh vegetables, green newly pressed olive oil, cheese and our wines.

Types of cooking classes:

Tapas

Paella cooking

Traditional: Gazpacho, potato omelet, tomato bread, shellfish paella and Catalan cream, and so many more!

The workshop can begin with a tour at a market, optional.

Location: Barcelona City. Barcelona province. Consult other locations Participants: from 8 to 30 people Duration: 2 hours + meal Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year round under request Languages: English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. Consult other languages. The activity includes:

A hands on cooking class led by a chef

A meal with Spanish wines

Translated recipes

Venue rental

Apron The activity does not include:

All local taxes

Market Tour

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Our venues: Born-Sta Caterina: max. 25 ppl Boqueria market: max. 30 ppl

Up-left Eixample: max. 20 ppl Down-left Eixample: max. 20 ppl

Arc de Triomf: max. 20 ppl Catedral Area: max. 20 ppl


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Cooking at the Chef’s House & Gastronomic Tour in Barcelona

An experience for gastronomes and culinary adventurers

By the hand of our local chef, savor and indulge with us visiting the famous Boqueria market in Barcelona, get a few Spanish and Catalan cuisine essentials and go to our Chef’s house to prepare your food feast! Number for this private cooking class is limited to a maximum of 6 people.

This is a chance to discover a traditional market with its display of fruits, meats, fish, etc. This experience will be pure delight for your senses with the display of amazing colors and subtle scents.

Discover the secrets of Mediterranean traditional cuisine, a cuisine that is reflected by its territory: the sea provides the excellent fish and seafood so typical of the cooking of the coast; the plain gives the produce of the field, the market gardens and the fruit orchards, from the hills we receive meat, cheese, wild fruits and mushrooms. The mixture of all of these is what has given our cuisine this variety of flavors and contrasts and gained it the name of “sea and mountain” cooking.

Menu will vary according to season:

Gazpacho, potato omelet, chicken with prawns, tomato bread, shellfish paella, Catalan cream, etc.

Once the tour is done, we will go to the Chef’s house, where we will culminate the process by cooking traditional delicacies that will be tasted afterwards with a well deserved glass of wine.

Bring an extra bag to stock up on the Catalan flavors and products that you’ll undoubtedly want to bring home.

You get to eat what you make so… set the table!

Alternatively you can skip the market tour and dive straight into the Spanish cooking class.

Great for small get-together, parties, and fun evenings. Languages: English or Spanish. Consult other languages. Participants: 1 to 6 (private) Duration: 4-5 hours Meeting point: Palau de la Virreina: C/ La Rambla, 99 Availability: Under request The program includes:

1 Gourmet walking tour with our Chef

Groups minimum of 2 people, maximum 6

Chef’s house rental fee

Personalized traditional menu (proposed by the Chef): Appetizers, Entries, Main course, dessert, Wines and Coffee

Ingredients for the menu The price does not include:


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All local taxes

Transportation

Food and beverage not specified in the program

Additional Info

Vegetarian menu option available, please specify when booking.

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Paella Cooking

Roll up your sleeves and make wonderful homemade paella!

Paella is the most famous authentic national dish of Spain. Come and learn how to prepare this wonderful and tasty meal.

The group will be divided in teams that will have to make the paella following the instructions in the recipe and led by the gastronomes that will be helping and supporting.

Once the paellas are finished, they will be blind tasted and judged on different criteria by the master gastronome or chef.

Will you be able to taste your paella? Certainly! Once the activity is finished and the winner team is announced, you will enjoy a full meal (lunch or dinner) sitting on the restaurant consisting on:

3 tapas (possibility to have them while cooking) ½ portion of the paella made by the participants

1 main dish to choose between meat of fish Dessert (crème bruleé)

Sangria, wine, beer or soft drink, bottled still water and coffee.

Location: Barcelona City in restaurants in the harbor area Duration: 1-1,5 hours + meal Participants: 20-130 Availability: Mondays to Fridays from 11:30 to 13:30 or from 17:00 to 21:00. All year around under request. Ask for weekend and holidays. Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages. The activity includes:

Paella cooking class: material, ingredients, gastronomes

Meal as specified

Recipes

Aprons

Venue rental The activity does not include:

All local taxes

Transportation

Gifts for the winning team

Any other meal or beverage not specified in the program Photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/106424538188505832009/albums/5654360404732014353?banner=pwa




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Paella cooking in Sitges

Paella is the most famous authentic national dish of Spain. Come and learn how to prepare this wonderful and tasty meal.

The group will be divided in teams that will have to make the paella following the instructions in the recipe and led by the gastronomes that will be helping and supporting.

Once the paellas are finished, they will be blind tasted and judged on different criteria by the master gastronome or chef.

Will you be able to taste your paella? Certainly! Once the activity is finished and the winner team is announced, you will enjoy a full meal (lunch or dinner) sitting on the restaurant consisting on:

Grilled vegetables with anchovies on a toast / olives / Spanish omelet / chicken croquettes (possibility to have them while

cooking) and soft drinks, beer, wine and sangria Paella made by the participants

Main dish to choose from: Gilthead traditional fishermen style

Or Penedès roaster with wine sauce

Dessert to choose: Natural pineapple with cream / Tangerine sherbet with tiramisu

ice cream Mojito sherbet / toffee mouse

White & red wine, bottled still water and coffee.

Location: Sitges, Port Aiguadolç or Vilanova i la Geltrú Duration: 1-1,5 hours + meal Participants: 20-200 Availability: Mondays to Fridays. All year round under request. Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages. The activity includes:

Paella cooking class: material, ingredients, gastronomes

Meal as specified

Recipes, Aprons & Venue rental The activity does not include:

All local taxes

Gifts for the winning team

Any other meal or beverage not specified in the program Photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/106424538188505832009/albums/5654360404732014353?banner=pwa




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Cooking class of Pintxos paired with Wines Bilbao

Join Food & Wine Tours cooking classes in Bilbao and discover the secrets of how to make pintxos, bringing you near to the world of Basque High Cuisine in Miniature…….

Bar counters display numerous pintxos, the equivalent to tapas in other areas of the country. Making the rounds consists of popping in and out of several bars, usually the same ones every day, grabbing a pintxo and drinking a txikito (a small glass of wine) in each one.

Cooking class of Basque tapas and pairing of wines in a restaurant in the city centre.

This course will allow you to learn the techniques and the most suitable products for the preparation of the Pintxos as well as the best way to treat these products and the combination of them considering the colour, smell, texture and in general to learn with practical lessons. Hands on cooking class

There will be a total of 8 different pintxos elaborated. Each Pintxo will be paired with a different wine.

Locations: Restaurant in Bilbao Participants: Groups from 2 to 13 people Duration: 2 hours Availability: Individuals & groups: Mondays to Saturdays, all year round under request Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages. The activity includes:

• Hands on Cooking class of Pintxos:

• The services of the chef

• Making and tasting of 8 pintxos with 8 wines

• Booklet The activity doesn’t include:

All local taxes

Apron


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Spring on your table

“The only things left from Paradise are flowers, the stars and the eyes of children”

To find flowers in a dish is uncommon, but as our chef says, most children have once in their lifetime taste a flower.

Adding flowers to a dish can add color, taste, and an unexpected surprise for your dinner guests.

In other cultures - and in other times flowers were customary. Our chef, awarded by his creativity, has incorporated them in his cooking as a valuable ingredient and, seeing the splendor of his more than hundred recipes, we wonder why it is not spring in every kitchen.

We will guide you through a world of aromas and unknown sensations, flavors set at the deepest of your memories and unforgettable moments. By the hand of our chef you will discover the virtues of this fashionable ingredient in our gastronomy, flowers; without a doubt an experience full of new sensations, surprising and original.

You will be able to taste flowers such as roses, orange blossoms, violets, begonias, lavender, jasmine and the surprising electrical flower; these flowers will be tasted raw and in surprising recipes that our chef will prepare for you.

Some of the culinary proposals: Cheese mousse with Indian cress Duck comfit with orange blossom Tuna Sashimi with violets Piña colada with jasmine Passion fruit cream with rose petals and water Strawberries with roses

Locations: Barcelona: Barcelona City. Barcelona Wine Areas: Alella, Abadal & Penedes. Sitges area. We can go to your house or venue Participants: Groups from 8 to 40 people Duration: 4 hours Availability: All year around under request Languages: French and Spanish. Consult other languages. The activity includes:

• Demonstrative Creative cuisine - Flowers cooking class: material, ingredients, master chef

• English speaking gastronome assistant

• Gourmet pairing dinner with wines

• Venue rental The activity does not include:

• All local taxes

• Apron


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Textures Cooking Class The alchemy of the senses

Following the Techniques of Ferran Adrià, we will do a cooking class on the different Textures from El Bulli, a world of unprecedented sensations, textures and flavors through a more than loquacious combination: sweet-savory, hot-cold, raw-cooked... to cause a gastronomic big bang that excites every sense and exceeds every expectation.

It never ever creates indifference on the most capricious palates.

During this class we will learn some of his most famous techniques, like basic spherification, inverse spherification, jellification, airing, etc.

The class is a hands on class and demonstrative, the dishes cooked by the participants will be eaten during the class, at the same time they are “cooked”, as some of this textures do not last long, like airs and some spheres stay with the same texture for only a few minutes,… there will be wine served with the food, as well as a table to sit down for those who do not want to participate very actively.

Sample Menu Melon Caviar with passion fruit and ham

Olive spheres Potato Gnocchi with Consommé and egg

Bay prawns with parmesan spheres, tomato and basil air “Thai” Pork chops with coconut spaghettis and peanut air

Mango Raviolis with honey and vanilla ice cream Strawberries with yogurt, tomato and pepper

Locations: Barcelona: Barcelona City. Barcelona Wine Areas: Alella, Abadal & Penedes. Sitges area. We can go to your house or venue Participants: Groups from 4 to 15 people Duration: 3 hours Availability: All year round under request Languages: English, French and Spanish. Consult other languages. The activity includes:

A hands on /demonstrative cooking class

A meal with Spanish wines

Translated recipes

Venue rental The activity does not include:

All local taxes

Apron


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The genius Cuisine of a Michelin Starred Chef Cooking class with a Michelin Starred Chef

Enjoy an exclusive cooking class with a Michelin starred chef.

Spain is one of the countries in the world with more restaurants and chefs with Michelin stars. Probably the most recognized and influential culinary ratings in Western Europe.

During this experience we will have the unique opportunity to learn from a master. After the class there will be a meal served at the restaurant or at the venue chosen.

We have agreements with several Michelin Starred chefs over Spain, thus this experience is different in each case, most are demonstrative, but in some cases they might be hands-on. Locations: Barcelona, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Mallorca Consult other locations Participants: Groups from 8 to 100 people Duration: 2,5 hours Availability: All year round under request Languages: Spanish or English or French, depending on the chef. The activity includes:

• Cooking class: material, ingredients, master chef

• English/French speaking gastronome assistant

• Gourmet pairing dinner with wines

• Venue rental The activity does not include:

• All local taxes

• Apron


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Home cooking at the Chef’s in Sevilla

An experience for gastronomes and culinary adventurers.

By the hand of our local chef, savor and indulge with us visiting first a local market in Seville, get a few Spanish and Andalusien cuisine essentials and go to our Chef’s house to prepare your food feast!

Highlights:

- Private and relaxed cooking class in a traditional house in the city of Seville;

- Experience local life at the market;

- Learn to cook authentic Spanish food on this Spanish cooking class;

- A hands-on and entertaining cooking class in Seville;

This is a chance to discover a traditional market with its display of fruits, meats, fish,…. This experience will be pure delight for your senses with the display of amazing colors and subtle scents.

Menu will vary according to season and can be adapted to your needs: full traditional menu or tapas menu, also special requests such as allergies or vegetarians available (please indicate when booking or requesting information).

Once the tour is done, we will go to the Chef’s house, where we will culminate the process by cooking traditional delicacies that will be tasted afterwards with a well deserved glass of wine.

Bring an extra bag to stock up on the Spanish and Andalusien flavors and products that you’ll undoubtedly want to bring home.

You get to eat what you make so… set the table! Duration: 3-4 hours Participants: from 1 to 6 Languages: English or Spanish Availability: Upon request Prices:

People 1 2 3 4 5 6

Price per person 200€ 122€ 105€ 90€ 80€ 72€

The price includes:

• 1 Gourmet walking tour with our English or Spanish Speaking Chef at the market with one tapa and one drink

• Hands on lessons using your own and the chef’s extensive range of knowledge.

• Personalized traditional menu (proposed by the Chef): Appetizers, Entries, Main course, Desert, Wine pairing and Coffee


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• Use of the kitchen and dining area

• Ingredients for the menu and proposed wines Optionally we can skip the visit to the market and meet directly at the chef’s house

The price does not include:

VAT

Transportation

Food and beverage not specified in the program

Additional Info

Vegetarian menu option available, please specify when booking.

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