Cookinfrance
Cookinfrance is set deep in the Dordogne countryside close to the beautiful medieval market town of Sarlat. Students come on a range of hands-on course from one to five days and stay in the lovingly restored farm buildings.
English chef, Jim Fisher, moved to France in 2000 with his wife, Lucy, and their 8 year old daughter, Jenny, with the express intention of setting up a cooking school. Having found and converted a dilapidated 17th C farm, the Fishers opened the doors to the Cookinfrance kitchens and have been going from strength to strength ever since. Cookinfrance is set deep in the Dordogne countryside close to the beautiful medieval market town of Sarlat. Students come on a range of hands-on course from one to five days and stay in the lovingly restored farm buildings.
They learn to cook both classic and local French/Mediterranean dishes using ‘cheffy’ restaurant techniques that are adapted to the home cook. A Masterchef semi-finalist, Jim has worked with Rick Stein, Alistair Little and Tony Tobin and ranks his mother, “an imaginative and prolific home cook", as his greatest early influence. He is a lively and passionate teacher who adores teaching cookery to anyone with an open foodie mind.
Comfortable cooking to camera, Jim enjoys performing in front of an audience and is pretty unflappable. Dry humoured, but with a slightly surreal edge, he teaches with a patient but ‘edgy’ teaching style. Favourite food is rustic & fine-dining, classic & modern French and British all with an emphasis on fresh, local & seasonal produce. Jim believes that local seasonal food is best and that cooking should be fun!
Click here for further details: Cook In France
Please mention ‘Celebrity Chefs UK’ when booking or enquiring
Chef’s Biog:
- Origin: 1961 Essex, but grew up in rural Devon from age 6y
- 1982 to 1999 - UK policeman
- Self-taught cook from age 13y
- 1998 to 2000 - Set up ‘Wine & Dine’ (cooking dinner parties for paying clients in their own homes)
- 1998 - Worked with Rick Stein
- 1998 - Worked with Alistair Little
- 2000 - Moved to Dordogne, France
- 2004 - Set up Cookinfrance
- 2011 - Set up Famous Last Suppers cooking courses
- 1st & 2nd Titanic Banquet covered by FT Magazine & Travel Channel
- Appearing in the Travel Channel’s 2011 ‘Wild Camping’ series
- Currently writing two cookery books: one on Cookinfrance, the other on ‘cheffy’ cooking techniques for the home cook
Media experience:
- 1997 - BBC Masterchef
- 1998 - BBC Food and Drink Programme
- 1997 to 1998 - Recipe column for the Times (well, actually, the St Albans Times)
- 2011 - Filmed by Michael Fiddler for Travel Channel series
- 2011 - Filmed by journalist and TV presenter Richard Johnson for Tasterfilms
- 2011 - Filmed a series of online promotional and teaching videos
