Above: Making french pastries the Kitchen at Camont, Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois, France

Cooking schools are popular because they are so rewarding. They allow you to have an intimate, hands-on experience in a new destination, and they send you home with invaluable souvenirs: skills you can put to work in your own kitchen and recipes that will transport you back to the place you learned them. They’re also convivial settings in which to meet new people with similar interests. Even after it’s concluded, a cooking class keeps on giving.

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Above: Making french pastries the Kitchen at Camont, Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois, France