Traditional cooking
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Duration
2 - 6 hours
Difficulty
Easy
Location
Traditional smallholdings, guesthouses, farms, cookery schools or food venues
Season
All year round
What is a traditional cooking experience?
Traditional cooking is a hands-on experience where you learn local recipes and cook them under the eye of a host, a cook or a local producer.
It can take in choosing the ingredients, making the dough, working the old techniques and sitting down to what you have made.
The point is to pass on the cooking traditions and to show how food and a region's culture hang together.
Age limit
An experience for the family
Many activities can be set up for children and adults alike.
Children
Some workshops have versions built for the little ones.
18+ for alcohol
Tasting or cooking with alcohol may be limited to people over 18.
Right for
Families
Something to learn and enjoy together.
Visitors
Getting to know the local kitchen by doing.
Groups
Sessions run for small or large groups.
Couples
Cooking together, hands in the flour.
Corporate
Team activities built on working together.
Kinds of cooking experience
Regional cooking
Making the recipes that belong to the area.
Cooking at the farm
Cooking with ingredients from just outside the door.
Cooking in a family home
Built on recipes handed down in the family.
Seasonal cooking
Cooking with whatever is about at the time.
Traditional baking
Bread, pies, sweet loaves and other baked goods.
What is included
Getting the ingredients ready
You learn what goes in and how it is used.
Doing the cooking
Making the traditional recipes yourself.
Stories behind the dishes
Where the dishes come from and the traditions behind them.
Sitting down to eat
Tasting what you have made during the session.
At a glance
How long it lasts
Usually between 2 and 6 hours, depending on what you are making.
Booking
Worth doing, so the ingredients and the session can be got ready.
Ingredients included
Most sessions come with everything you need.
What you end up with
You get to eat what you cooked during the workshop.
Materials and kit
Kitchen equipment
The utensils and equipment the cooking needs.
Local ingredients
Supplied by the organiser or sourced from producers nearby.
An apron
May be handed out to keep your clothes clean.
Recipes
Some sessions send you home with the recipe.
Services on offer
A cook or a local host
Guidance while you cook.
Stories of the traditions
Where the recipes come from and what they mean.
A traditional meal
Serving what you have made during the session.
Workshops made to order
Shaping the session around a group, a family or an occasion.
Local produce
You can cook with local ingredients, or buy them.
Advice for participants
Book in good time
Some sessions need the ingredients prepared before you arrive.
Wear something comfortable
Cooking means working with the ingredients directly.
Tell them about allergies
Say what you cannot eat before you take part.
Roll your sleeves up
The experience is about taking part, not just watching.
Traditional cooking — frequently asked questions
No — most of the activities suit beginners too.
Yes — many sessions are set up for families and children.
As a rule the organiser provides what is needed.
Some sessions give you the recipes for what you made.
Some sessions may include them, and those are for people of 18 or over.