Welcome to the now legendary Fête Accomplie gastronomic adventures, where our fearless guests join me and my multi-talented business partner David Horsman in a week long dinner party charged with culinary tips, foodie outings, much hilarity and cultural insight.

2010

Uzès, South of France - €2,750

September 11th - 18th, 2010 - one week - A filmed trip for a series on Uzès
Accommodation: Le Mas des Oules

Also from end of May to end of October 2010 - mini culinary workshops
ranging from half a day to three days - only in Uzès (no accommodation).
Enquire here for more details

Amanbagh Luxury Resort Rajasthan, India - €7,500

October 8th - 18th, 2010 - 10 days
Accommodation: Amanbagh

2011

Marrakech - €2,750

May 21st - 28th, 2011 - one week
June 4th - 11th, 2011 - one week

Accommodation: Le Tresor, Dar Tasmayoun

Uzès, South of France - €2,750

June 18th - 25th, 2011 - one week
Accommodation: Le Mas des Oules

The price for Uzès and Marrakech is €2,750 per person for a twin share - this includes 7 nights accommodation, cooking classes, visits, restaurants & their transport and all meals. Maximum of 10 guests please.

The price for Rajasthan is €7,500, single accommodation - this includes 10 nights accommodation, cooking classes, visits, restaurants & their transport and all meals. Maximum of 10 guests please.

Our mission has always been to provide really authentic gastronomic and cultural experiences, far from the well-trodden tourist circuits and into the homes, restaurants and kitchens of people with real food soul.

We sample everything, from the chic to the humble because... variety is the spice of life! A few years ago we added an extra destination: the incredibly exotic and hip city of Marrakech. Next year 2011 we are adding Emilia-Romagna, the most gastronomically outstanding region in Italy.

As usual the most difficult task has been to choose between all those delicious recipes... those tempting wines... those magical interiors... those overflowing markets.... Someone's got to do it - why not you? I hope you can join us.

To get to the real heart and soul of a culture means understanding how and what it eats. A culture's cuisine confirms its sense of belonging, bringing alive ancestral memories through stories of local traditions and daily life.

These are passed down through the genes and the fingertips. Cooking is living history. Deeply understood, joyously shared. This has been my raison d'être for more than thirty years. Our culinary weeks go in search of this. In Morocco, where time passes on slippered feet, we divide our stay between the rural charms of authentic Berber hospitality, and the riotous but sophisticated life of Marrakech's medina.

In Southern France we hole up for the week in a glorious pastel-tinted Mas (country home) outside the medieval splendour of Uzès, and venture forth daily to experience the intoxicating, colourful and sensual cuisine that is Provençe. In Rajasthan we give ourselves over to the luxury of the Amanbagh Resort. Rajasthan is the land of colour, rich spicy cooking, buffalo milk and hand-blocked fabric. Say au revoir to all you knew before and enter into our charmed and poetic gastronomic world.

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