Get Out of the Heat and Into Le Pistou Cooking School a Provençal Kitchen
Barefoot Blogger · French Cooking Classes · Taste
If you’re headed for Uzes and you want to learn to make Provençal dishes you can easily prepare back home, meet Petra Carter. She’s the brains and bubbly personality behind Le Pistou Cooking School.
Petra and I have become great friends since meeting last year at her cooking school.Most people who meet the vivacious Dutch/Irish lady feel the same.
to learn about this charming chef who was born in the Netherlands. However, life’s passages have taken her toTanzania in Africa (where she cooked for guests in tented safari camps), Ireland (where she raised her family), and since 2013 to Uzès. The cooking classes at her Le Pistou Cooking School are scheduled on a demand basis for a minimum of 4 and maximum of 8 people.
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