Casa Cebadillas invites you to experience a culinary vacation holiday in Andalucia Spain’s historic white village of Torrox Pueblo. Attending culinary class and tasting Spanish wines with our cooking school team gives you the opportunity to savor "True Spain".
For a few weeks each year Casa Cebadillas, the unique culinary experience in the historic village of Torrox Pueblo, Spain opens its kitchen and guest quarters for personalized culinary class to a small number of guests eager to share in the food, wine, and culture of one of Spain's most diverse and vibrant regions of Andalucia.
Guests cook with wild Mediterranean herbs gathered from the garden, venture down the streets into local household salons for fresh salad greens, fruits and vegetables from local markets, olives from the local groves, and prepare unique Mediterranean, Sephardic, and Moorish-Arabic dishes.
Included in your culinary vacation Spain cooking holiday is a field trip to a local cortijo to watch the preparation of a meal from a local family. Your culinary vacation in Spain offers this grand finale: The cooking school students plan and prepare a meal for a group of six locals!
The one week Cooking School Culinary Class in English program includes hands-on cooking sessions led by Christopher Carnrick as well as guided visits to markets, vineyards, shops, and local restaurants. All cooking programs take place in a manner to allow you free time to explore.
Each day’s program offers something different; the prepared menus shared while taking in views of the white village of Torrox and the sea. In the background you can hear the goats and sheep herders in the distance and the smell of fresh roasting local chilies.
You will be given an insider’s guide to the regional production of local olives and oil, cheese and wine as well as and tastings. Our Spanish Wine expert, Steve Ochman, Director of the Wine Education Institute in Sussex and author and contributor to several Spanish Wine magazines will show you how to select the best the region has to offer and how to locate these wines one you arrive back home. All instruction is in English. Recipes are geared for preparation at home once you return to showcase your new skills! Guests are supplied with supplies needed for the week.
Each culinary holiday class is limited to 4 guests. The week begins with a tour of the village and a welcome dinner on Sunday night and ends after “graduation” dinner on Friday.
The fee is 725 Euro PP DO (per person double occupancy) and includes, transportation from and to the airport, accommodations, market visits, materials and supplies, all tastings, transportation for Alpujarras, lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday, and dinners Sunday, Thursday and Friday.
Single Supplement 125 Euro
Culinary Classes are offered in the Spring and Autumn only.
Mid-week and private group classes can be arranged.
Casa Cebadillas operates in Andalucía región of Spain, Torrox Pueblo. We are approximately 45 minutes east of the Malaga airport.
Casa Cebadillas' focus is Mediterranean cooking in general, however the art of entertaining and creating “themed” dinners has made this establishment a fun and memorable evening for locals and visitors.
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