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Learning to Cook: Paule Caillat
One of the best of these intimate schools is "Promenades Gourmandes" operated by Paule Caillat out of her apartment in the trendy Marais neighborhood of Paris. Paule makes a day of it. You start by shopping for the ingredients for the lunch you´re going to make. Paule takes you around her lively neighborhood market, introducing you to a merchant who sells mushrooms that he grows in his cellar (a dying French tradition) or to a butcher who sells the best free-range, milk- and corn-fed chickens from Bresse. Your last stop is the bakery for a fresh baguette or loaf of pain de campagne (country-style bread). Then it´s over to Paule´s apartment on the rue du Temple. Her kitchen is enormous by Paris apartment standards: granite countertops, two electric ovens, and a professional-quality gas cook top. Lunch will be the standard three courses, perhaps a cheese soufflé....
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