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Exclusive EscapesThe Sunday TimesFebuary 24, 2008 | Tasty Cookery Courses Intro b |
Tasty Cookery Courses
Don't just sit there watching Nigella and her sauces. Explore with our guide to the tastiest cookery courses.
By Jeremy Lazell
Twenty years ago, the idea of cooking on holiday was absurd. Food was a fag - it was the kitchen you were running away from.
Then along came all those celebrity chefs, with their "anyone can do it" ethos and exotic ideas about opening up international cuisine.
Since Floyd on Italy and Rick Stein's French Odyssey, a holiday's not a holiday unless you're diving for scallops and searing them yourself on the beach. Fact is, cooking is sexy, and cook schools are popping up across the holiday planet like soufflés in a Smeg oven. Here are the tastiest.
Turkish Vegetarian Cuisine, Turkey
Perched high in the pine forests, halfway between Fethiye and Kalkan, with views of the preternaturally blue Lycian coastline from pool, veranda and even bath, Yediburunlar Lighthouse is reason enough to come to Turkey with a suitcase of good books and factor 15 all on its own.
This year, however, the owner and chef, Semra, is throwing a cook-school week into an already spectacular mix, teaching guests how to shop for and prepare a six-course vegetarian and fish meze feast, with just enough time factored in for gulet cruises and walks into the surrounding hills.
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