Cologne Trip Overview
This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Enjoy a private market tour in Cologne of an open market selling regional produce sold by your host Leonie’s favored vendors and an authentic cooking class in her home. Leonie is a young university student who lives a healthy lifestyle in Germany and enjoys creating simple, healthy and delicious dishes that remind her of home. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Leonie will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional French dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your host’s home.
• Private market tour and vegetarian cooking lesson in a local home
• Wine and cheese tasting
• Introduction to French cuisine in a German home
• 100% private activity
• Experience local hospitality in a neighborhood within the city center of Friesenplatz
• Vegetarian and vegan options available
Additional Info
Duration: 6 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Cologne, Germany
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Cooking Classes
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What to Expect When Visiting Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Enjoy a private market tour in Cologne of an open market selling regional produce sold by your host Leonie’s favored vendors and an authentic cooking class in her home. Leonie is a young university student who lives a healthy lifestyle in Germany and enjoys creating simple, healthy and delicious dishes that remind her of home. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Leonie will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional French dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your host’s home.
• Private market tour and vegetarian cooking lesson in a local home
• Wine and cheese tasting
• Introduction to French cuisine in a German home
• 100% private activity
• Experience local hospitality in a neighborhood within the city center of Friesenplatz
• Vegetarian and vegan options available
This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Meet your host Leonie and her boyfriend Robin at their bright, open apartment in the center of Cologne. Nestled in one of the most central and lively streets of Cologne, enter a welcoming and luminous atmosphere. You will then take the tram 10 minutes to a local market. Explore an open market selling regional produce sold by Leonie’s favored vendors at the market. Learn to find German substitutes for French ingredients and how to choose the freshest fruit and vegetables during this private market tour that lasts about 40 minutes. Purchase a few ingredients for your cooking class in Leonie’s open kitchen. Learn to cook a seasonal, home-style, vegetarian French meal similar to one that she would share with her family at home. Your hands-on cooking class in Cologne involves making 3 courses from scratch and will last about 2.5 hours. Enjoy cooking a French meal using seasonal German produce (and French ingredients) before you sit down at the table to share the heartwarming meal you helped prepare with Leonie, all accompanied by bread, delightful wine and conversation.
Sample Menu
• Aperitif with olive tapenade or beet dip
• Roasted tomato soup with a savory herb granola
• Fresh and seasonal quiche in a herbed crust
• Salad with Leonie’s signature plate licking vinaigrette
• Comte cheese tasting from Leonie’s hometown
• Mousse au chocolat and crème brulee and fruit salad
• Coffee and herbal tea
