Spring break! Skip South Padre and learn to cook

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Mar 26th 2006 @ 7:21PM

The New York Times Travel section has a list of twenty slightly offbeat, more interesting things to do for Spring Break, when most people pack up a bikini and sunscreen and head off to the beach. One of their suggestions is to learn a new cuisine by enrolling in a weekend cooking course that can go anywhere from spending the weekend in a bed and breakfast to the CIA. Their recommendations (all on the East Coast) are:

Culinary Institute of America (CIA) offers day-long cooking classes every Saturday this spring in Hyde Park, NY
New England Culinary Institute takes you to their Inn at Essex, VT, where you spend two hours helping to prepare your own meals
You can learn to make your own maple syrup at The Manor on Golden Pond in Holderness, NH
Also in Vermont, Deborah Krasner's Vermont Culinary Vacations offers weekend-long group cooking courses.

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