A few years back I visited Provence with my partner Paul and did a little road trip all around the area close to Avignon.

One particular day was spent cooking at Jean-Marc Villard's cooking school. Jean-Marc has decades of experience as a head chef in some of the best and Michelin star restaurants across France, as well as a long stint in the US where he brought the French cuisine to America in the early 1980s. 

Prior to opening his cooking school for non-professional chefs in 2001 (first in Lyon and more recently in his home in Maubec, Provence) Jean-Marc instructed chefs at the prestigious Paul Bocuse cooking school.

For "foodie" FrancoFilers, when travelling to Provence this is an experience not to be missed!

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