Cook and taste our Lifestyle

1. Catalogue
of Experiences
COOKING CLASSES 2012
Proposals for individuals, groups and incentives
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2. Cook while chatting with friends, enjoy a glass of wine and follow our chef’s and gastronomes
instructions and tips.
Food Wine tours cooking activities are fun but didactic, creative but with traditional basis, from low
to high difficulty, participative and pleasant.
You will find the chef inside you, whether you are a beginner or an experimented cook... even if you
have never used a table board… You’d never thought cooking was so much fun.
Our cooking activities are very diverse and some of them are partially outdoor, next to the sea. They
can be adapted to a corporate event or for any kind of group.
Cook with your friends or colleagues, make your own appetizers, try your self-made paella, delight a
mouth-watering desert and… make a toast with a well deserved glass of cava.
For more information and reservations:
Telephone: +34 93 317 19 09
Skype: Ociovital.Laia
Ociovital.Antonio
General Information: info@ociovital.com
Reservations: reservas@ociovital.com
Comercial: comercial@ociovital.com
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3. Index
Traditional Cooking Classes in Barcelona.................................................................. 4
Cooking at the Chef’s House & Gastronomic Tour in Barcelona ................................ 6
Paella Cooking ......................................................................................................... 8
Paella cooking in Sitges ............................................................................................ 9
Cooking class of Pintxos paired with Wines ............................................................ 10
Spring on your table ............................................................................................... 11
Textures Cooking Class ........................................................................................... 12
The genius Cuisine of a Michelin Starred Chef......................................................... 13
Home cooking at the Chef’s in Sevilla ..................................................................... 14
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4. Traditional Cooking Classes in Barcelona
Join Food & Wine Tours cooking classes and discover the secrets of our local traditional cuisine.
Learn how to cook the typical dishes of the region and taste the menu prepared in a friendly
atmosphere.
Enjoy while cooking, play with the ingredients and savor the dishes you have prepared, while
enjoying one day with your friends or colleagues.
Cooking lessons are hands-on, intimate, fun, informative and full of tips and tricks of the trade. You
are encouraged to discover and explore the tastes and textures of some of the finest ingredients
from fresh fish casseroles (cassola) to “mar i montanya” and rice dishes, fresh vegetables, green
newly pressed olive oil, cheese and our wines.
Types of cooking classes:
 Tapas
 Paella cooking
 Traditional: Gazpacho, potato omelet, tomato bread, shellfish paella and Catalan cream, and so
many more!
The workshop can begin with a tour at a market, optional.
Location: Barcelona City. Barcelona province. Consult other locations
Participants: from 8 to 30 people
Duration: 2 hours + meal
Availability: Mondays to Sundays, all year round under request
Languages: English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. Consult other languages.
The activity includes:
 A hands on cooking class led by a chef
 A meal with Spanish wines
 Translated recipes
 Venue rental
 Apron
The activity does not include:
 All local taxes
 Market Tour
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5. Our venues:
Born-Sta Caterina: max. 25 ppl Boqueria market: max. 30 ppl
Up-left Eixample: max. 20 ppl Down-left Eixample: max. 20 ppl
Arc de Triomf: max. 20 ppl Catedral Area: max. 20 ppl
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6. Cooking at the Chef’s House & Gastronomic Tour in Barcelona
An experience for gastronomes and culinary adventurers
By the hand of our local chef, savor and indulge with us
visiting the famous Boqueria market in Barcelona, get a few
Spanish and Catalan cuisine essentials and go to our Chef’s
house to prepare your food feast! Number for this private
cooking class is limited to a maximum of 6 people.
This is a chance to discover a traditional market with its
display of fruits, meats, fish, etc. This experience will be pure
delight for your senses with the display of amazing colors and
subtle scents.
Discover the secrets of Mediterranean traditional cuisine, a cuisine that is reflected by its territory:
the sea provides the excellent fish and seafood so typical of the cooking of the coast; the plain gives
the produce of the field, the market gardens and the fruit orchards, from the hills we receive meat,
cheese, wild fruits and mushrooms. The mixture of all of these is what has given our cuisine this
variety of flavors and contrasts and gained it the name of “sea and mountain” cooking.
Menu will vary according to season:
Gazpacho, potato omelet, chicken with prawns, tomato bread, shellfish paella, Catalan cream, etc.
Once the tour is done, we will go to the Chef’s house, where we will culminate the process by
cooking traditional delicacies that will be tasted afterwards with a well deserved glass of wine.
Bring an extra bag to stock up on the Catalan flavors and products that you’ll undoubtedly want to
bring home.
You get to eat what you make so… set the table!
Alternatively you can skip the market tour and dive straight into the Spanish cooking class.
Great for small get-together, parties, and fun evenings.
Languages: English or Spanish. Consult other languages.
Participants: 1 to 6 (private)
Duration: 4-5 hours
Meeting point: Palau de la Virreina: C/ La Rambla, 99
Availability: Under request
The program includes:
 1 Gourmet walking tour with our Chef
 Groups minimum of 2 people, maximum 6
 Chef’s house rental fee
 Personalized traditional menu (proposed by the Chef):
Appetizers, Entries, Main course, dessert, Wines and Coffee
 Ingredients for the menu
The price does not include:
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7.  All local taxes
 Transportation
 Food and beverage not specified in the program
Additional Info
 Vegetarian menu option available, please specify when booking.
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8. Paella Cooking
Roll up your sleeves and make wonderful homemade paella!
Paella is the most famous authentic national dish of Spain. Come and
learn how to prepare this wonderful and tasty meal.
The group will be divided in teams that will have to make the paella
following the instructions in the recipe and led by the gastronomes that
will be helping and supporting.
Once the paellas are finished, they will be blind tasted and judged on
different criteria by the master gastronome or chef.
Will you be able to taste your paella? Certainly! Once the activity is
finished and the winner team is announced, you will enjoy a full meal
(lunch or dinner) sitting on the restaurant consisting on:
3 tapas (possibility to have them while cooking)
½ portion of the paella made by the participants
1 main dish to choose between meat of fish
Dessert (crème bruleé)
Sangria, wine, beer or soft drink, bottled still water and coffee.
Location: Barcelona City in restaurants in the harbor area
Duration: 1-1,5 hours + meal
Participants: 20-130
Availability: Mondays to Fridays from 11:30 to 13:30 or from 17:00 to 21:00.
All year around under request. Ask for weekend and holidays.
Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.
The activity includes:
 Paella cooking class: material, ingredients, gastronomes
 Meal as specified
 Recipes
 Aprons
 Venue rental
The activity does not include:
 All local taxes
 Transportation
 Gifts for the winning team
 Any other meal or beverage not specified in the program
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9. Paella cooking in Sitges
Paella is the most famous authentic national dish of Spain. Come and learn how to prepare this
wonderful and tasty meal.
The group will be divided in teams that will have to make the paella following the instructions in the
recipe and led by the gastronomes that will be helping and supporting.
Once the paellas are finished, they will be blind tasted and judged on different criteria by the master
gastronome or chef.
Will you be able to taste your paella? Certainly! Once the activity is finished and the winner team is
announced, you will enjoy a full meal (lunch or dinner) sitting on the restaurant consisting on:
Grilled vegetables with anchovies on a toast / olives / Spanish
omelet / chicken croquettes (possibility to have them while
cooking) and soft drinks, beer, wine and sangria
Paella made by the participants
Main dish to choose from:
Gilthead traditional fishermen style
Or
Penedès roaster with wine sauce
Dessert to choose:
Natural pineapple with cream / Tangerine sherbet with tiramisu
ice cream
Mojito sherbet / toffee mouse
White & red wine, bottled still water and coffee.
Location: Sitges, Port Aiguadolç or Vilanova i la Geltrú
Duration: 1-1,5 hours + meal
Participants: 20-200
Availability: Mondays to Fridays. All year round under request.
Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other languages.
The activity includes:
 Paella cooking class: material, ingredients, gastronomes
 Meal as specified
 Recipes, Aprons & Venue rental
The activity does not include:
 All local taxes
 Gifts for the winning team
 Any other meal or beverage not specified in the program
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10. Cooking class of Pintxos paired with Wines
Bilbao
Join Food & Wine Tours cooking classes in Bilbao and
discover the secrets of how to make pintxos, bringing you
near to the world of Basque High Cuisine in Miniature…….
Bar counters display numerous pintxos, the equivalent to
tapas in other areas of the country. Making the rounds
consists of popping in and out of several bars, usually the
same ones every day, grabbing a pintxo and drinking a
txikito (a small glass of wine) in each one.
Cooking class of Basque tapas and pairing of wines in a
restaurant in the city centre.
This course will allow you to learn the techniques and the
most suitable products for the preparation of the Pintxos as
well as the best way to treat these products and the
combination of them considering the colour, smell, texture
and in general to learn with practical lessons. Hands on
cooking class
There will be a total of 8 different pintxos elaborated. Each Pintxo will be paired with a different
wine.
Locations: Restaurant in Bilbao
Participants: Groups from 2 to 13 people
Duration: 2 hours
Availability: Individuals & groups: Mondays to
Saturdays, all year round under request
Languages: English and Spanish. Consult other
languages.
The activity includes:
• Hands on Cooking class of Pintxos:
• The services of the chef
• Making and tasting of 8 pintxos with 8 wines
• Booklet
The activity doesn’t include:
 All local taxes
 Apron
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11. Spring on your table
“The only things left from Paradise are flowers, the stars and the eyes of children”
To find flowers in a dish is uncommon, but as our chef says, most
children have once in their lifetime taste a flower.
Adding flowers to a dish can add color, taste, and an unexpected surprise
for your dinner guests.
In other cultures - and in other times flowers were customary. Our chef,
awarded by his creativity, has incorporated them in his cooking as a
valuable ingredient and, seeing the splendor of his more than hundred
recipes, we wonder why it is not spring in every kitchen.
We will guide you through a world of aromas and unknown sensations, flavors set at the deepest of
your memories and unforgettable moments. By the hand of our chef you will discover the virtues of
this fashionable ingredient in our gastronomy, flowers; without a doubt an experience full of new
sensations, surprising and original.
You will be able to taste flowers such as roses, orange blossoms, violets, begonias, lavender, jasmine
and the surprising electrical flower; these flowers will be tasted raw and in surprising recipes that
our chef will prepare for you.
Some of the culinary proposals:
 Cheese mousse with Indian cress
 Duck comfit with orange blossom
 Tuna Sashimi with violets
 Piña colada with jasmine
 Passion fruit cream with rose petals and water
 Strawberries with roses
Locations: Barcelona: Barcelona City. Barcelona Wine Areas: Alella,
Abadal & Penedes. Sitges area. We can go to your house or venue
Participants: Groups from 8 to 40 people
Duration: 4 hours
Availability: All year around under request
Languages: French and Spanish. Consult other languages.
The activity includes:
• Demonstrative Creative cuisine - Flowers cooking class: material, ingredients, master chef
• English speaking gastronome assistant
• Gourmet pairing dinner with wines
• Venue rental
The activity does not include:
• All local taxes
• Apron
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12. Textures Cooking Class
The alchemy of the senses
Following the Techniques of Ferran Adrià, we will do a cooking class
on the different Textures from El Bulli, a world of unprecedented
sensations, textures and flavors through a more than loquacious
combination: sweet-savory, hot-cold, raw-cooked... to cause a
gastronomic big bang that excites every sense and exceeds every
expectation.
It never ever creates indifference on the most capricious palates.
During this class we will learn some of his most famous techniques,
like basic spherification, inverse spherification, jellification, airing, etc.
The class is a hands on class and demonstrative, the dishes cooked by the participants will be eaten
during the class, at the same time they are “cooked”, as some of this textures do not last long, like
airs and some spheres stay with the same texture for only a few minutes,… there will be wine
served with the food, as well as a table to sit down for those who do not want to participate very
actively.
Sample Menu
Melon Caviar with passion fruit and ham
Olive spheres
Potato Gnocchi with Consommé and egg
Bay prawns with parmesan spheres, tomato and basil air
“Thai” Pork chops with coconut spaghettis and peanut air
Mango Raviolis with honey and vanilla ice cream
Strawberries with yogurt, tomato and pepper
Locations: Barcelona: Barcelona City. Barcelona
Wine Areas: Alella, Abadal & Penedes. Sitges
area. We can go to your house or venue
Participants: Groups from 4 to 15 people
Duration: 3 hours
Availability: All year round under request
Languages: English, French and Spanish. Consult
other languages.
The activity includes:
 A hands on /demonstrative cooking class
 A meal with Spanish wines
 Translated recipes
 Venue rental
The activity does not include:
 All local taxes
 Apron
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13. The genius Cuisine of a Michelin Starred Chef
Cooking class with a Michelin Starred Chef
Enjoy an exclusive cooking class with a Michelin starred chef.
Spain is one of the countries in the world with more restaurants and chefs with Michelin stars.
Probably the most recognized and influential culinary ratings in Western Europe.
During this experience we will have the unique opportunity to learn from a master. After the class
there will be a meal served at the restaurant or at the venue chosen.
We have agreements with several Michelin Starred chefs over Spain, thus this experience is
different in each case, most are demonstrative, but in some cases they might be hands-on.
Locations: Barcelona, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Mallorca
Consult other locations
Participants: Groups from 8 to 100 people
Duration: 2,5 hours
Availability: All year round under request
Languages: Spanish or English or French, depending on the
chef.
The activity includes:
• Cooking class: material, ingredients, master chef
• English/French speaking gastronome assistant
• Gourmet pairing dinner with wines
• Venue rental
The activity does not include:
• All local taxes
• Apron
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14. Home cooking at the Chef’s in Sevilla
An experience for gastronomes and culinary adventurers.
By the hand of our local chef, savor and indulge with us visiting
first a local market in Seville, get a few Spanish and Andalusien
cuisine essentials and go to our Chef’s house to prepare your
food feast!
Highlights:
- Private and relaxed cooking class in a traditional house in
the city of Seville;
- Experience local life at the market;
- Learn to cook authentic Spanish food on this Spanish cooking
class;
- A hands-on and entertaining cooking class in Seville;
This is a chance to discover a traditional market with its display of
fruits, meats, fish,…. This experience will be pure delight for your
senses with the display of amazing colors and subtle scents.
Menu will vary according to season and can be adapted to your
needs: full traditional menu or tapas menu, also special requests
such as allergies or vegetarians available (please indicate when
booking or requesting information).
Once the tour is done, we will go to the Chef’s house, where we will
culminate the process by cooking traditional delicacies that will be
tasted afterwards with a well deserved glass of wine.
Bring an extra bag to stock up on the Spanish and Andalusien flavors and products that you’ll
undoubtedly want to bring home.
You get to eat what you make so… set the table!
Duration: 3-4 hours
Participants: from 1 to 6
Languages: English or Spanish
Availability: Upon request
Prices:
People 1 2 3 4 5 6
Price per person 200€ 122€ 105€ 90€ 80€ 72€
The price includes:
• 1 Gourmet walking tour with our English or Spanish Speaking Chef at the market with one tapa
and one drink
• Hands on lessons using your own and the chef’s extensive range of knowledge.
• Personalized traditional menu (proposed by the Chef): Appetizers, Entries, Main course,
Desert, Wine pairing and Coffee
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15. • Use of the kitchen and dining area
• Ingredients for the menu and proposed wines
Optionally we can skip the visit to the market and meet directly at the chef’s house
The price does not include:
 VAT
 Transportation
 Food and beverage not specified in the program
Additional Info
 Vegetarian menu option available, please specify when booking.
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