What will you have with your French Cuisine?

As an international cooking school we naturally receive enquiries from all over the world. Most of our students are simply seeking to improve their cooking skills and expand upon their culinary repetoire. Our students come from everywhere and the most popular destinations so far are Germany, Australia, China and the USA. Most of our students are professional woman but there are a growing number of men also seeking to develop their culinary instincts. The majority of our clients find us on the internet and it is not therefore surprising that email is usually the initial form of contact. We do get some unusual requests like the military General from Pakistan who wanted to send his son for four years "culinary punishment" and a lady from Brazil who wanted to learn "how to cook with ice"!

We also get requests from students who wish to do more than simply cook all day. They want to combine their week's cooking with more holiday like pursuits such as visiting places of interest. This is why we have a break in our daily cooking schedule allowing students a few hours off each day to explore food markets (the Rennes food market, marché des Lices,is one of the best in France!). We also recommend a number of beautiful local medieval towns to visit such as Dinan or Josselin. The beautiful seaside walled town of St Malo or the amazing abbey of Le Mont Saint-Michel are very popular.

Some students seek to combine their cooking course with wine appreciation classes, the French language, painting, astronomy, yoga, or simply cycling and walking. The area around Kerrouet is within The Mene, an area of outstanding natural beauty and unspoilt countryside. We keep cycles for our students and there are some beautiful walks we do recommend. We have professional sommeliers who give wine lectures and tastings and we are not far from the wonderful vinyards of the Loire Valley.

We are working on the provision of French language courses. However yoga, painting and astronomy (we are in one of the few places in Europe where the sky at night is not hindered by urban lighting!)will have to be offered by others. Our main preoccupation and expertise and love will always be French and modern European cuisine and we seek to do this exceedingly well in an intimate and memorable way.
If we take on too many additional pursuits we risk damaging the wonderful thing we are doing now - simply training others how to create great food in a unique, friendly and professional way. Bon Appétit.