Jacques & Laurent Pourcel, by creating their own cook-house, wanted to share the universe of a great restaurant, the availability of the chef de cuisine (they are two as well), give you the opportunity to spend time in the intimacy of great chefs and their knowledge, with you.
The Atelier de cuisine (the cooking house) is located in front of Le Jardin des Sens, in Montpellier city center. It is a real home cuisine and welcomes all the addicted and cuisine lovers.
This workshop is dedicated to creation, discoveries, the workshop of the taste and the pleasure, a place to exchange, communicate, open ones mind ; this is a place where every one with or without any experience could learn through advises and special secrets from the chef and become familiar to some cooking technics.
All year long, classes for children and adults will be taught by the chefs Pourcel assistants, a free, simple and tasty type of cuisine, the Mediterranean cuisine.
Learn how to easily replace a missing kitchen utensil to improve a presentation, discover another cuisine, the one of the five senses.
Every class will be about a precise theme:
Learning all about "foie gras", appreciate the asparagus, elaborate the potatoes, try a special menu (ex. Christmas or Thanksgiving’s menu), becoming a dessert pro, mastering all about fish, understand a risotto… all of the matters that would make your life easier.

Courses for adults will be done, three times a week, on the basis of three recipes: two easy recipes and feasible at home, and one recipe more complicated and gastronomic.
The children cooking courses isn’t only based on play and amusing cuisine, but every Wednesday, propose to them, to be aroused around products. Colouring, cut-out, theatre, manual work will punctuate sessions leading by Cornélia Zimmerman, ‘artist’ of the cuisine.
Jacques and Laurent work with Nathalie Richin, a self-taught woman with a real cooking passion, who is responsible of the cooking-house and Thierry Alix, Le Jardin des Sens former chef de cuisine, the cooking globe-trotter, to show you some essential manners to succeed in cooking.

Wishing to meet you for the next visit in twins brothers’ cooking-house, with plenty of surprise and tasting the meals!

Programm 2003-2004
Courses from Tuesday September 16th to June 2004.
The programm is available.

COURSES FOR ADULTS
Hours
Tuesday & Saturday: 9am - 12am
Friday: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Prices
53 € one course
250 € 5 courses
other proposal 80 €:
1 course & 1 lunch at La Compagnie des Comptoirs

COURSES FOR CHILDREN
Hours
Children between 7 to 12 years old
Wednesday: 9am - 12am
OR 2.30pm - 5.30pm
Prices
35 € one course
150 € 5 courses

36 bis, avenue Saint-Lazare
34000 Montpellier

Contact
Nathalie Richin
tel. 33 (0)4 67 79 07 68
atelier@jardindessens.com