The Mid Michigan area has some excellent cooking schools with Eaton Rapids' Le Chat Gourmet Culinary Arts a most charming culinary adventure. Run by Executive Chef Denene Vincent, its intimate gardens have been planted with a variety of herbs, fruits, vegetables, and edible flowers, so that students can go out with Vincent and pick the food they will go inside and cook. The intimacy and charm of the school brings new meaning to the term culinary adventure.For a special culinary vacation, in the summers Vincent offers students a unique culinary hands-on tour of France or Italy.Her 2007 culinary summer vacation included a tour of the Bordeaux region of France. The students met and cooked with Chef Jerome Dumoulin who has cooked in Paris restaurants. Chef Dumoulin is distinguished to be among the last five artisan mustard chefs in France. Click here for the link to the article as it appeared in the Lansing City Pulse newspaper.
About Me
- Lynne Crandall
- Okemos, Michigan, United States
- Lynne Crandall is a newspaper columnist in the East Lansing, Michigan,area and is currently a contributing writer for Lansing Area Capital Gains on-line magazine. (www.capitalgainsmedia.com). Her food and restaurant newspaper column has morphed and will now appear on this blog. She is also the press person for the Michigan Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She has a passion for exotic cooking, champagne with gold leaf flakes, art, Middle Eastern food and she blends artisan botanical perfumes from exotic essential oils. She has an Abyssinian tortoise shell cat, Tigerlily, who manages the household, and she lives in Okemos, a suburb of East Lansing, Michigan.