Cookery courses in India

I am heading to southern India in November and would like to take a cookery course while I am there.

I am particulary (although not exclusively) interested in Keralan cookery.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

hello emma,

this is likely to be too late, but, in hanover square (oxford circus tube) today until 19:00 the kerala tourist board are doing a promotion, maybe you could get some advice there.

ime sure i see an artical in a magazine at work about vegetarian cookery courses in south kerala, i will have a look tonight and post any findings.

but ime sure it would be a lot cheaper to book it in india.

I notice that Haritha, of Haritha Farms, is registered here but hasn't yet posted. Their web-site mentions cookery classes among other things -- check:

http://www.geocities.com/harithafarms/

haven't been their myself, but it looks interesting.

sorry emma, i could'nt find the artical at work, but if i see anything i will post it asap.

harithafarms is offering a cooking lessons in vegetarian cooking from june 1992 onwards.The duration of the course will be a week.There will be two courses every month for the months of june,july,august,september,oct ober, and after that in march ,april and may in 1993.For details , exact dates of courses and reservation you can cotact us at harithafarms@yahoo.com

Does anyone know of any good cookery schools in India?? Not just concentrating on regional cookery but giving an overall view.

Any info appreciated.

Thanks

Jane

This may be late but I will post anyway.
When we are in India I always look in the English press and have found a couple of cookery courses run by housewives for girls who are about to be married and have not learned to cook within their family. They were both in spoken English and held in the both ladies houses and were interesting if a little basic and it was nice to be made welcome - if only as a curiosity!!

i studied cooking in kerala a couple of years ago.
the course only focuses on south indian cooking, the classes and the food were great, i learned alot and took home lots of recipes. the people at this school are so nice and take you all around their small village. they also have courses in other indian arts like dance, music, ayurveda...
you can check them out online at:
www.vijnanakalavedi.org

GIVE LILY A SHOUT @ JASVILAS.COM, SHE WILL SORT YOU OUT .
HER FOOD IS EXCELLENTE .

a great school in kerala to study south indian cooking is vijnana kala vedi. they are in arunmula, a small village in kerala on the pamba river. the experience there is great, they also teach, dance, art, languages, music....and lots more
check them out at www.vijnanakalavedi.org

Hi!

Can anybody recommend where to book a 1-2- day cooking class? As we have not made any detailed plans on where to go all regions would be welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Claudia

while in india I love to speak with the cooks of the restaurants
wherever possible,they are quite eager to learn something about western cuisine,in exchange they can teach you something about indian cooking,which is good fun and quite interesting!!
while in germany just look in the newspapers or sometimes the VHS does offer cooking courses,
or try to get in contact with indian or sri lankan communitys..
many times they also offer cooking courses,
or maybe just ask in your local indian restaurant!
while in India a big problem could be that non-hindus are normally not allowed to enter hindu kitchens...
but many times I did....
or maybe ask at your local indian foodstore..I guess in munich you have quite a lot of them..

indian food is fantastic!

Ishould know as I am a proffessional cook


enjoy your first self cooked indian dinner!!!!!!!!

I wanted to take a class in India, also to get some insight on the ingredients etc. I have cooked Indian food quite often, it starts tasting better than in the average German-Indian restaurant :-) But it will make a difference to take a class in India itself. Why would a non-Hindu not be allowed in a hindu kitchen? I can understand about churches, but oh well, we'll see.

I have a friend who desperately wanted to learn some of the Hindu dances and could not find anybody who would teach her as it was not allowed because she wasn't born a Hindu. I would imagine that in the same respect the specific Hindu cuisine would be considered in much the same way....maybe.

Here I make it a point to cook Indian food once a week at least and it gets better every time! MMMMMmmmm spicy curry.......

The kitchen in conservative/relgious Indian households are off limits i.e sorta sacred and shouldn't be entered into without prior consent.