Plum's Immersive Week of French Cuisine - Autumn 2025
Plum Lyon is your home base. It's where we gather in our fully equipped, spacious teaching kitchen for intimate, hands-on, small group cooking classes each day. A week-long immersive exploration of crucial building blocks in French cuisine.
Lyon is your oyster! This week includes morning "fieldwork" excursions in the center of Lyon, with guided visits to a variety of local venues and dining establishments to consult with experts, sample, taste, explore, and to gather both information and ingredients. Together, we discover the underbelly and dig out the essence of what makes Lyon France's culinary capital.
During your 5 day program (a Monday evening introductory meeting plus 5 full days of visits and classes through Saturday evening), we master technique and progressive building blocks of classic French cuisine over several days: Five days of workshops, including multi-day preparations, both sweet and savory dishes, including terrines or pâté en croute, stocks and demi-glace, classic sauces, puff pastry and its applications, classic seasonal desserts, in depth hands-on coverage of herbs in French cooking, classic French mains, exploration into the creation of a French cheese platter, classic French pastry, and contemporary plating technique.
Each day is packed full of cooking classes and visits. This multi-day series is designed to build skills progressively and is appropriate for all levels of cook, from very beginners to experienced culinary enthusiasts. The only pre-requisite is your love for the cuisine and wines of France, and a desire to learn more about the gastronomy of Lyon.
This program is limited to only 6 participants to allow intimate hands-on classes, attention, and instruction. It's perfect for the solo traveler.
EACH IMMERSIVE CULINARY WEEK ALSO INCLUDES:
+Exploration of Lyon's culinary history and gastronomic landscape, to reveal the delightful unique aspects of Lyonnais Bouchons, Les Mères Lyonnaises, and the new generation bistrot, from old school to new.
+Lunch each day is provided, evenings are left free to explore according to your rhythm.
+ Lucy has a list of nearby lodging options, her bonnes adresses for dining and other activities in Lyon, provided to all registered participants, to assist with your planning.
+Visits to multiple iconic markets and culinary venues and consults with industry experts in the historic city of Lyon.
+Yours to keep: Aprons, towels, a handbook with recipes and room for notes.
What's not included: Transport to and from Lyon, lodging, meals outside of lunch time.
About Plum Lyon: The Plum Lyon Kitchen welcomes you to come and cook in Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Located in the ancient silk-worker's district on the hill of the Croix Rousse, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Plum Lyon Teaching Kitchen is offering seasonal market classes, classic French cooking, week-long immersive programs, children's workshops in English, and single subject ateliers that cover a chosen technique or theme in French cuisine. We accommodate a maximum of 6-8 students per class. There is plenty of opportunity for hands-on learning in our classes.
Lucy Vanel has been teaching the culinary arts in Lyon, France since 2007. Holding both French and American nationalities, her passion for La Cuisine Lyonnaise and la cuisine Française has ruled her every waking moment (and sometimes her dreams) since she moved to Lyon from Los Angeles in the year 2000. Lucy created this Immersive week of French cuisine with the goal of offering a deeper longer experience than her full day workshops, and to share her vast local knowledge with small groups of likeminded people. The workshops overlap to include multi-day preparations and progressively teach more of the building blocks of classic French and regional cuisine than any one-day workshop could ever cover. If you enjoyed Lucy's Market Table Classes in Lyon, you will love your weeklong program at Plum!
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Lyon is your oyster! This week includes morning "fieldwork" excursions in the center of Lyon, with guided visits to a variety of local venues and dining establishments to consult with experts, sample, taste, explore, and to gather both information and ingredients. Together, we discover the underbelly and dig out the essence of what makes Lyon France's culinary capital.
During your 5 day program (a Monday evening introductory meeting plus 5 full days of visits and classes through Saturday evening), we master technique and progressive building blocks of classic French cuisine over several days: Five days of workshops, including multi-day preparations, both sweet and savory dishes, including terrines or pâté en croute, stocks and demi-glace, classic sauces, puff pastry and its applications, classic seasonal desserts, in depth hands-on coverage of herbs in French cooking, classic French mains, exploration into the creation of a French cheese platter, classic French pastry, and contemporary plating technique.
Each day is packed full of cooking classes and visits. This multi-day series is designed to build skills progressively and is appropriate for all levels of cook, from very beginners to experienced culinary enthusiasts. The only pre-requisite is your love for the cuisine and wines of France, and a desire to learn more about the gastronomy of Lyon.
This program is limited to only 6 participants to allow intimate hands-on classes, attention, and instruction. It's perfect for the solo traveler.
EACH IMMERSIVE CULINARY WEEK ALSO INCLUDES:
+Exploration of Lyon's culinary history and gastronomic landscape, to reveal the delightful unique aspects of Lyonnais Bouchons, Les Mères Lyonnaises, and the new generation bistrot, from old school to new.
+Lunch each day is provided, evenings are left free to explore according to your rhythm.
+ Lucy has a list of nearby lodging options, her bonnes adresses for dining and other activities in Lyon, provided to all registered participants, to assist with your planning.
+Visits to multiple iconic markets and culinary venues and consults with industry experts in the historic city of Lyon.
+Yours to keep: Aprons, towels, a handbook with recipes and room for notes.
What's not included: Transport to and from Lyon, lodging, meals outside of lunch time.
About Plum Lyon: The Plum Lyon Kitchen welcomes you to come and cook in Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Located in the ancient silk-worker's district on the hill of the Croix Rousse, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Plum Lyon Teaching Kitchen is offering seasonal market classes, classic French cooking, week-long immersive programs, children's workshops in English, and single subject ateliers that cover a chosen technique or theme in French cuisine. We accommodate a maximum of 6-8 students per class. There is plenty of opportunity for hands-on learning in our classes.
Lucy Vanel has been teaching the culinary arts in Lyon, France since 2007. Holding both French and American nationalities, her passion for La Cuisine Lyonnaise and la cuisine Française has ruled her every waking moment (and sometimes her dreams) since she moved to Lyon from Los Angeles in the year 2000. Lucy created this Immersive week of French cuisine with the goal of offering a deeper longer experience than her full day workshops, and to share her vast local knowledge with small groups of likeminded people. The workshops overlap to include multi-day preparations and progressively teach more of the building blocks of classic French and regional cuisine than any one-day workshop could ever cover. If you enjoyed Lucy's Market Table Classes in Lyon, you will love your weeklong program at Plum!
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