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Taking a Cooking Class While Traveling: A Different Cultural Perspective

November 12, 2018

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Whether you’re traveling to another country or even another state, there is always an opportunity to learn more about the food that is known in the area. Many cities offer cooking classes that you can take to get a basic idea of how to prepare a few simple dishes. Someplace like Cozymeal offers classes all across the US from San Francisco to New York City.

Taking a Cooking Class While Traveling

When you’re taking a cooking class while traveling, you should try to make as many notes as possible so that you can take your knowledge back to your home to put your own twists on the dishes that you make.

Taking a Cooking Class While Traveling

One of the reasons why you might want to take a cooking class in another area is so that you can learn about the culture. Some of the dishes that you can learn how to make include soups, sandwiches, salads, and desserts.

Each region often has a featured item or two that is known across the world, and while you are taking cooking classes, you’ll get to learn about the care that goes into making these dishes.

Another benefit of taking a cooking class while traveling is that you’ll learn about how the people of the area are impacted by the money that they make and how they use the ingredients that are available to make recipes.

Taking a Cooking Class While Traveling

When you take classes, you’ll usually make new friends. While you’re learning how to cook and learning about the location, you can talk to other people who are interested in learning about the same things.

You can talk about your background, your family, and the reasons why you’re traveling. After the class, you can carry on those conversations through social media if you choose to or find other people to talk to when you travel again in the future.

The foods that you’ve been eating can often be prepared in different ways than you know about. When you take a cooking class, you’ll learn about the ways that simple ingredients can be used, such as potatoes, beef, chicken, or other vegetables.

Taking a Cooking Class While Traveling

You can then add your own ingredients to these recipes and prepare meals in a way that is appealing and appetizing for your family and friends so that they can understand more about the location you traveled to as well. While you’re cooking, you can learn about foods that should be used lightly and foods that can be used in a larger amount.

There are foods that interact with others in different ways than you can imagine, and these cooking classes can help you gain a new perspective about which foods blend well together and which ones might not work well with each other.

Many classes offer tours of some of the restaurants in the area as well as tours of the places where they get their food supplies from so that you can see what goes into making classic dishes.

You’ll also be able to learn about what to avoid when cooking and where to avoid getting food so that you only use the best ingredients possible. Some cooking classes offer a souvenir for students.

This could be a cup or plate as well as a few ingredients that are known to the area you’ve traveled to so that you have something to take home to work with and share with others.

Consider taking a cooking class during the holiday season as you can often get more insight as to the foods that are prepared.

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  1. Lily Kwan says

    November 30, 2018 at 12:17 am

    Taking a cooking class while traveling sounds very fun. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. kathy pease says

    November 29, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    Taking a cooking class sounds fun and God knows I could use it.

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  3. Antoinette M says

    November 29, 2018 at 7:33 am

    This is a great idea and would be fun & educational!

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  4. Leela says

    November 28, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    That looks like it would be a lot of fun.

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  5. Sheila F says

    November 27, 2018 at 7:37 pm

    Great idea🌱

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  6. tom says

    November 27, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Amazing. Very impressive.

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  7. Jennifer Keating says

    November 24, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    I would absolutely LOVE to do this! Also wanted to go to Culinary school when I was younger, but just never did it. Now that I have my children and they are very young I don’t think I’ll be doing that until they are a lot older. This would definitely be something that I would do though <3

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  8. Tracie Cooper says

    November 21, 2018 at 4:16 pm

    I would love to do this and hope to travel to Italy for my 50th Bday and do cooking class on our trip!

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  9. Brianna Cavins says

    November 19, 2018 at 2:00 pm

    I’m such a picky eater I dont know if I would be able to eat any!

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  10. Kathy Lane says

    November 15, 2018 at 7:07 am

    This would be awesome! A fun thing to do and learning something new too.

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  11. Jessica Walker says

    November 15, 2018 at 6:31 am

    This looks like it could be fun and and educational. Everyone likes good food

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  12. KATY says

    November 13, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    I LOVE THIS Idea. COOKIng is an international language.

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  13. Mia Rose says

    November 13, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    What a fun adventure and learning experience while travelling. It is certainly a different way to explore an area.

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  14. Amy D says

    November 13, 2018 at 10:33 am

    I absolutely love to cook, and think it is a brilliant idea to take cooking classes while traveling. I love learning about various spices and ingredients that are used in different countries. I love the idea of the restaurant tours too. Now I want to go!

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  15. Vickie L Couturier says

    November 13, 2018 at 5:10 am

    i would love to try a cooking class,never to old to learn something new

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  16. athena graeme says

    November 13, 2018 at 1:18 am

    I took a class while in Bali, it was amazing. Not only learning about the food, but the different cooking implements and styles. I had a great time getting to know the chef, learning about the spices they use. It was amazing to see how food helps shape their culture. Since that class, I always try to learn to cook something from each place we visit.

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  17. Lesley F says

    November 12, 2018 at 5:18 pm

    This would be so fun to do. My husband and I would love it

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