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DEL.ICIO.USDo You Like to Go On Gourmet Excursions?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Gourmet” magazine is hosting its fifth annual Gourmet Institute (October 19 -21) in New York. It’s a three day “total immersion” featuring classes, tastings and demos by chefs such as Sara Moulton, Thomas Keller and Eric Ripert. There will be panel discussions, cooking demos and pastry and chocolate demos. The magazine is touting the weekend as a great getaway for non-New Yorkers: for $1,395 clams, you get a welcome gala on Friday night, dinner out on Saturday with four seminars/demos and four seminars/demos on Sunday, breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday, plus you can meet editor Ruth Reichl. I’m a pretty big foodie, but I would rarely consider doing something like this. I’d rather go to Spain and eat on my own. Or bike my way through Tuscany on a bike tour. Who likes this sort of thing? Who’s gone to a Gourmet Institute (or other culinary excursion) before? For more info about the Gourmet Institute, go to www.gourmetinstitute.com or call 1-888-308-6133.
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By susan smith
August 29, 2007 3:14 PM | Link to this
Hi Meridith —
Your mention of the Gourmet Institute piqued my interest, so I went to their website to check it out. I actually think it sounds great! Lots of well-known chefs, delicious food, intriguing seminars and demos. I would love to attend a chocolate seminar given by Jacques Torres or the vegetarian Indian cuisine demo and tasting.
Granted, $1,395 isn’t cheap, but it includes 8 seminars and all meals. I’m not sure why you sound so negative about this experience, but I’m glad that you wrote about. An October weekend in New York devoted to great food — few things sound better to me! Thanks for letting me know!