Organic Cooking Lessons

Organic Tuscany

The Organic Tuscany Cooking School in central Italy offers organic cooking classes to individuals interested in exploring the culinary art of Italian organic cooking. Participants live in Certaldo, near Siena, for varying periods, depending on their schedule and interests. The program organizers schedule sessions with local chefs who instruct participants in Italian cooking techniques using local organic ingredients. The school also schedules periodic trips into the local countryside to visit farms that produce organic produce. Participants learn techniques for preparing pastas, sauces, vegetable dishes and more.

The Patty James Cooking School and Nutrition Center, certified as an organic cooking school by the California Certified Organic Farmers, helps students ease into organic cooking and eating. The center offers in-class, on-line and off-site consulting and nutritional counseling projects which focus on using organic ingredients in food preparation. The course provides information that allows participants to prepare raw food dishes and healthy cooked recipes using organic produce. The school is located in Sebastopol, California.

The Organic Cooking School of Planet X Cafe in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, adapts the organic cooking techniques that the chefs at the Planet X Cafe use to a home cooking context. The classes provide skills and ideas that people can use to create gourmet, organic cuisine for a variety of tastes. Individuals may register for the school's scheduled one or two-day seminars. Planet X, the vegetarian restaurant which sponsors these lessons, provides a gourmet vegetarian dinner for class participants at the close of each day's classes.

Travelers to Thailand can attend the Thai Farm Cooking School where they will live on an organic farm near Chiang Mai City while learning the principles and methods of organic Thai cooking. Using fresh organic ingredients from the farm and the local market, participants experience the simple pleasure of creating authentic Asian dishes using organic herbs, grains, vegetables and fruits. Participants stay at the school for the amount of time that they wish. Students cook together in the mornings, sharing the tasks involved in preparing their mid-day meal which they then eat together.