Learn French in the kitchen

A fantastic way to communicate in French with one of our French tutors and Chef!

  • Broaden your knowledge of French cuisine
  • Develop your French vocabulary around food
  • Improve your communication skills in a small group of like-minded students
  • Take home a delicious dish

We offer:

3 sessions of 1h30mns each

  • Dates: TBC
  • Content: Iza, the French tutor and chef, will teach some succulent French recipes.
  • Venue: Clifton
  • Cost: £72  ( ingredients extra for each session: approx £3 to £5 per person)
  • Number of students: 4 per group

Contact us about this course

This French course is suitable for people with a good GCSE standard and above, the emphasis is on teaching French through cooking. Students will be preparing one regional dish per session with the help of Isabelle, the French tutor and chef. (Iza – lacuizine.co.uk)
By the end of the 3 sessions students will have learnt to prepare a 3 course meal.

Cookery Workshop
“This winter I had the pleasure of attended a series of five lessons chez Isa Redon under the auspices of Alliance Francaise. With my fellow students (usually three of us, but it varied) we learned to cook some authentic French dishes in the comfort of Isa’s kitchen in Clifton. She is not only an expert chef, but also a great teacher of cookery and French. Her kitchen doubles as a classroom, and the evening is conducted almost entirely in French. Only when she spotted my blank looks on failing to comprehend the name of an ingredient or kitchen implement did she resort to English and the whiteboard.

The results were delicious and usually eaten for supper the next night. My cookery skills and vocabulary in the kitchen department have come on in leaps and bounds. Highly recommended.”

Cookery Workshop
“I thoroughly enjoyed all four evenings spent cooking with Iza. I not 
only learnt new recipes but also lots of ‘chef’s tips’ and technical 
french.  Iza is encouraging and the atmosphere is relaxed. I can’t wait 
to go again!”

Cookery Workshop
“I found the session very interesting and the meal delicious. It was also very good to socialise with other students and the teachers, in French! I’d like to join your next workshop, please.”

“An opportunity to learn more vocabulary in a very pleasant way. The food was lovely.”

“J’aime parler français, j’aime faire la cuisine et j’aime manger, donc, une leçon qui est un mélange des trois c’est, pour moi, parfait!

Nous sommes arrivées, sept étudiants, et nous nous sommes installés dans la cuisine de nos professeur pendant que Isabelle, le chef d’un restaurant végétarien à Bath, nous montrait comment préparer les plats pour déjeuner. Elle commençait avec le plat principal, un navarin d’agneau, avec un assortiment de jeunes légumes de printemps: des navets, des carottes, des petits oignons et bien sûr de l’ail, un bouquet garni et du vin blanc. Elle l’a fait au four et puis elle portait son attention au dessert, des petits soufflés au chocolat avec une sauce de fruits rouges.

Les soufflés étaient très riches avec du beurre, beaucoup des œufs et du bon chocolat noir. Dans la sauce aux fruits rouges, il y avait un ingrédient surprenant : de l’essence de fleur d’oranger qui Isabelle avait acheté dans un magasin d’Afrique du nord.

Enfin, elle a préparé l’hors d’œuvre : une petite salade simple avec des grenats et du fromage halloumi frit. Et voilà, tout était prêt et on s’est déplacé au jardin pour manger sous le soleil chaud.

Un verre de vin blanc de la Loire bien accompagnait la salade fraîche et délicieuse. Puis le navarin arrivait, l’agneau tendre et des légumes succulents, qui marchait bien avec un bon vin rouge de Cahors. Les soufflés au chocolat, aussi, étaient très agréable, la sauce piquant contrastait bien avec le chocolat doux.

Après du café, sept étudiants satisfaits et biens remplis rentraient chez eux.

Merci, Alliance Française pour une bonne leçon très différente.”

“This was such an enjoyable experience! An opportunity to meet other members of Alliance Française from other groups, outside the classroom, to observe the subtleties of French cooking, while discussing tastes and textures, sources and suppliers. Thanks to Isabelle’s expertise, we learned a number of ‘tricks of the trade’, increased our culinary vocabulary, and shared ideas for new or alternative flavours.

Our workshop ended in Martine’s beautiful garden, where, in warm sunshine, and with the accompaniment of French wines, we enjoyed and heartily approved our tasty 3-course lunch, whilst broadening our conversation, to include French politics, travel, and the benefits of learning other languages. I would certainly do this again!”

 

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