Paris Delices City Guide

Susan Loomis
Week Long Cooking Class in Paris at Patricia Wells’s Left Bank Cooking Studio
April 30-May 4, 2007
September 10-14, 2007

Join Susan Loomis in the heart of Saint-German-des-Près as she conducts hands-on classes in Patricia Wells’s airy, professionally equipped cooking studio. You will luxuriate in the finest seasonal ingredients, many from farmers in and around her area of Normandy. You will focus on technique, with forays into specialty oils, chocolate, cheese and wine. Days begin at 10 a.m. with a demonstration, followed by a class and a leisurely multi-course lunch. Each lunch is accompanied by the finest small-production wines and cheeses from throughout France. For one day the class will leave their aprons behind and take a cooks’ tour of Paris, followed by lunch in a lovely bistro tucked away in a hidden corner of Paris.

For more information - Susan Loomis “On Rue Tatin”

Paris Chocolate Exploration Tour with David Lebovitz and Mort Rosenblum
May 6-12, 2007

Join David and Mort Rosenblum, author of Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Light and Dark, for an incredible week-long Paris Chocolate Exploration.

You will spend one incredible week touring chocolate shops, receiving VIP treatment as you go. You’ll shop the fabulous Place de la Madeleine and the Left Bank for the best chocolates and confections in Paris. You’ll watch breads being wood-fired at Poilâne bakery and visit the historic Marais, where we’ll have an olive-oil tasting at the best huilerie in Paris and eat steak frites under the arches of the magnificent Place des Vosges.

Dinners will be in our favorite Parisian bistros and restaurants, especially chosen by David and Mort for this deluxe week.

Tour price is 2850€ (single supplement price upon request), and includes 6 nights at 4-star hotel with full breakfast buffet, 5 lunches, 5 dinners; chocolate tastings and seminars, lunch in the country with Susan Loomis of On Rue Tatin, and very special evening soirée aboard Mort Rosenblum’s wooden boat docked in the center of Paris.

For more information - contact Jeanette Hermann (telephone 818 574 7735) jtroseparis@aol.com

Wine Tasting
The Wine Museum of Paris

The Wine Museum of Paris offers wine tasting classes intended to guide amateurs through the beginning of understanding wine. Their courses enable one to describe a wine while recognizing grape varieties.

Classes taught in English are usually an introduction to wine tasting; although other classes, such as “tasting champagnes” are possible. Classes take place at the Wine Museum on Saturdays either from 10am-12pm or from 2:30pm-4:30pm.

A selection of five wines are tasted throughout the course of a class and comprise wine theory as well as practical wine tasting

Participants are strongly encouraged not to wear perfume or after-shave

April 2007 - Tastings in English

Saturday, April 14th 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Initiation to wine tasting: Sensory analysis, tools for tasting, wine vocabulary, and learning to taste.
2 hour class, 5 wines (2 white, 3 red)
Price : 45€ per person

Wednesday, April 18th 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Brief initiation to wine tasting. Tools for tasting and learning to taste.
1 hour class, 4 wines (2 white, 2 red)
Price : 35€ per person

Wednesday, April 25th 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Brief initiation to wine tasting. Tools for tasting and learning to taste.
1 hour class, 4 wines (2 white, 2 red)
Price : 35€ per person

RESERVATIONS are required. You may reserve your place on the website.

If you go -
The Wine Museum of Paris
rue des Eaux / 5, square C. Dickens 75016 Paris
Tel : 33 (0)1 45 25 63 26