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.











