Memoirs of an Explorer

His son already follows his footsteps and was awarded as the youngest restaurateur in France. The curriculum is feast for the senses, which sends the guests to pick up wild thyme from the hills or going early in the morning to the fish market to buy fresh produce. It also includes visiting a goat cheese farm and olive oil mill. The romantic set up of the cooking school is in a large private land, the Bastide, belongs to the Berard family and used exclusively for the cooking lessons and weddings. It’s a 19 century country house amid vines and olive trees, arches of roses, vegetables, herbs and fruit trees. What I like about Berard is that after the cooking lesson we were seating together by the table on the terrace, having an everyday conversation like I’m talking to my dad. For more info: The art of fine cuisine in Provence.