CLASSES
Welcome to my Paris Culinary Studio and classes for 2026!
Just click on the date below that suits you! If you don’t find the perfect date, reach out here
'Your classes were so much fun and filled with
information, laughter, and fabulous memories! "
information, laughter, and fabulous memories! "
Cindy LASKY
Susan offers one-day classes, three-day classes, and private classes. For any questions, contact Susan directly
Groups are small and she makes sure each person has plenty to do. She encourages correct technique and offer tips and tricks she has learned from the French chef, and the French cook, in more than thirty years of living and cooking in France.
The dishes you will prepare are authentic and based on tradition, with influences from many different places, each using the finest local ingredients available. No class, menu, or season is exactly the same, so that each menu reflects what is pulled from the ground or the water when it is supposed to be, from as close as it can possibly be harvested.
Susan loves sharing what she knows, and she has the gift of entertaining, and putting people at ease in the kitchen. Participants in her classes often say she has changed their lives; she has certainly changed the way they cook, the way they think about food, and perhaps the most important thing, the way they experience how the French enjoy time at the table.
If you don’t find a date on the registration form below that corresponds to your schedule, contact us to see how we may help.
One Day Class
$825
This begins at 10:30 a.m. Once your apron is on, Susan offers tastings, then the cooking begins. we jump right in to prepare our meal, which consists of appetizers, a first and main course, salad, cheese, and dessert. You then sit down to enjoy the meal, accompanied by wines and cheeses.
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Focused Workshops
Workshops allow delicious focus! Susan offers three different workshops, where you delve into a subject, learning everything about it, cooking up luscious flavors and textures. Includes tastes.
SAUCES
The French repertoire includes (depending on who you consult!) seven Mother Sauces. Susan has her own favorite French Sauce Repertoire (think Lemon Mayonnaise, Sauce Vierge, and more!) and with her you will make these sauces, and learn how to incorporate them into your cuisine!
APPETIZERS
French appetizers soothe the soul, from savory feta rolls to fig and hazelnut bread, to smoked salmon with cream, sweet and spicy nuts…these are the stuff that appetizer dreams are made from! Susan will take you through the world of French appetizers, each of which is its own universe of flavor and texture, so that you can recreate them for your friends and family.
SHOPPING FOR THE SEASON
Markets are filled with flavor and color, but how do you find the season’s best? What do you look for? With Susan as your guide, you will learn everything there is to know about shopping at the market, how to choose the best and most flavorful seasonal produce, cheeses, meats, and seafood. You will make several dishes based on what you’ve found at the market, and enjoy tastes of the finest the season has to offer.
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Three Day Class
$2,475
This class has slightly different hours to include a market visit and a wine tasting. It features menus that span more widely the seasons, allowing for a deeper and more profound learning experience.
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Focused Workshops
What is it that makes French cuisine beloved? The question is a good one with multiple answers, the most important being TRADITION. Traditional French cooking hearkens to three major tenets: terroir, which accounts for the variety of regional cuisines local ingredients, and those that are in season. These vital elements that have shaped – and continue to influence – traditional French cuisine. Think dishes like richly flavored Daube de Boeuf (Provencale Beef Stew), Poule au Pot (Henry IV’s Chicken in a Pot), Basque Lamb, or Soupe au Pistou (Southern Vegetable and Pesto Soup). You will make dishes like these, along with tempting appetizers and crackling fruit tarts and more, to create a meal to enjoy! Add technique and time-honored tips, and you have a class taught by Susan Herrmann Loomis, who has delved deeply into traditional French cuisine. She shares what she knows with you, accompanied by flavorful stories and anecdotes. Includes a meal.
The Classes
FRENCH MEDITERRANEAN
Here, you will head south from Paris to the sun-drenched Mediterranean regions of France. Expect big flavors, robust dishes, and let yourself be seduced by the elegance too. We will prepare a five-course meal and enjoy it accompanied by wines from the French Mediterranean regions.
CUISINE DU MARCHÉ
We will visit an outdoor market and you will learn how to choose the finest ingredients. We will return to the kitchen to prepare our meal, a feast of seasonal surprises.
VEGETARIAN
The French love their vegetables, grains, and starches and have so many ways to present them to make a meal. Here Susan will instruct you how and when to buy vegetables, how to combine them with grains, cheeses, eggs to make stylish meals for every level of vegetarian!
CLASSIC FRENCH MENU
The classic dishes of France make the world go ’round. Excpect comforting old “friends” and prepare to meet “new” and “updated” classics too, because French cuisine is in constant evolution.
2024 TRADITIONAL AND REGIONAL $575/person/day
- June 19 – $575
- July 10-13, 2024 – Plat du Jour Simple French Menus – $1725 – NORMANDY
- September 5 – $575
- September 11-14, 2024 – French Regional Menus – $1725 – NORMANDY
- October 9-12, 2024 – Plat du Jour Simple French Menus – $1725 – NORMANDY
- November 8 – $575
- November 9 – $575
- November 15 – $575
- December 3 – $575
- December 4 – $575
- December 5 – $575
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Seafood Class $2,475
The French LOVE and adore seafood. Whether chef or home cook, they know how to transform it into dishes that are simple, pure, and elegant. Let me show YOU how to do the same. In my seafood course, we go to the market to understand how to buy the best, then we will take it home and learn everything about it before using it in recipes that will completely change the way you think about and eat seafood of all types. Whether the seafood you get is straight off the boat or flash-frozen, I will show you how to work with it and how to make delicious and surprising dishes easily. You will leave the course an expert, filled with confidence and know-how.
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Focused Workshops
FRENCH cuisine is elegant in all its forms. In our classes, we’ll explore that elegance, learning how to coax depths of flavor from perfect ingredients, then presenting our creations so they are blindingly beautiful, tempting with their aromas and colors, dreamily delicious. With Susan, you will learn to astonish with your culinary creations, which begins with the ingredients and the cooking, and continues all the way to the candles, crystal, and silverware! Includes a meal.
THE CLASSES
HAUTE CUISINE FROM THE SEA
Susan is passionate about seafood, and a recognized expert, thanks to her first book, THE GREAT AMERICAN SEAFOOD COOKBOOK. She will take you through the world of seafood into a universe of delicious dishes that you will recreate at home, to the delight and astonishment of everyone at your table. From market to table, you will cook with the finest array of seafood imaginable. Because seafood arrives at the market daily, most of it directly from the English Channel, Susan responds accordingly, by choosing recipes based on the daily catch. But imagine Fish in Salt Crust, Fusion Fillets with herbs and flavors from afar, Marmite Dieppoise (Silken Fish Stew from Normandy), Basque-Style Cod. You will become a Seafood expert.
A MENU AROUND MUSHROOMS
French mushrooms embody the feel of autumn elegance. Collected fresh daily from the woods, or carefully coaxed from loam in ancient caves, you will touch mushrooms of every variety, turning them into savory delicacies.
LOVE AFFAIR WITH FRENCH CUISINE
Here you will spend three days making elegant dishes like Stuffed Lamb Shoulder, Chicken with Walnuts, Tournedos au Deux Poivres (Steak with Two Peppers), combining them with fine side disehs like Asparagus Three Ways, Swiss Chard Timbales with Radishes, Red Pepper Tart, and ending with desserts like Strawberry Balsamic Parfaits, Vanilla Millefeuille, Choux a la Crème…
ELEGANT VEGETARIAN
Susan will show you how the French put vegetables and grains at the center of the plate to make elegant, meatless meals.
FRENCH HOLIDAY DISHES
The French go elegant for the holidays, from truffle-roasted turkey to platters of seafood with multiple sauces, to buche de noel filled with cream and covered in ganache…learn the traditions so you can recreate them at home.
2024 ELEGANT HAUTE CUISINE – $775/person /day
- May 15-18, 2024: Love Affair with French Cuisine- $2325 – NORMANDY
- June 13-15, 2024: Elegant Seafood Menus – $2325 – NORMANDY
- June 18 – $775
- June 20 – $775
- September 3 – $775
- September 18-21, 2024: Elegant Traditional Menus – $2325 – NORMANDY
- September 4 – $775
- November 5 – $775
- November 6 – $775
- November 7 – $775
- November 12 – $775
- November 13 – $775
- November 14 – $775
- December 6 – $775
- December 7 – $775
- December 10 – $775
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2026 Class Registration
In This Class, You’ll Learn:
- Clear, step-by-step preparation of French cuisine.
- The French secrets to perfect sauces, pastry, seafoods & meats.
- Knife skills & techniques to cook more efficiently.
- The history & cultural significance behind each dish.
- Insider tips from a renowned chef & cookbook author.
In December 2024, I took my first three-day cooking class with Susan, who was
incredibly knowledgeable and an absolute joy to be around! We cooked and baked with
fresh, seasonal ingredients, and a favorite was learning to make a Bûche de Noël. The
class was the perfect mix of hands-on cooking, cultural insight, and lots of fun.
I
wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who loves food and is visiting Paris. After this
experience, you’ll definitely want to return for more of Susan’s classes! Amit
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Cooking with Susan is a celebration of the season, with recipes that reflect both tradition and trend, and the finest ingredients sourced locally. Susan teaches technical skills, which she combines with imagination and creativity, while always adhering to classical methods.
With Susan. you learn, you laugh, you leave with gorgeous recipes and skills. Join us!
If you don’t find a date that corresponds to your schedule, we can work together to find one for you, either in Paris or Normandy. For any questions, simple write to me at susan@onruetatin.com
Refund & Cancellation Policy
PLEASE NOTE: Your payment reserves your spot and is non-refundable. If you cancel your attendance one month before class, you may give your spot to someone, and/or we will try to fill your spot and refund you the balance of your final payment. There is a $250 office fee for this.
If the class is canceled by On Rue Tatin due to unforeseen circumstances, a full refund or class reschedule option will be provided.
PLEASE NOTE our refund Policy: The class deposit is a commitment by On Rue Tatin to reserve a spot for you in a specific class. The deposit should be considered nonrefundable, unless you offer a good and valid reason for your cancellation. If you wish to transfer to another class, there will be no charge. If we fill your spot, you will receive a refund. Any refund is, however, subject to a $500 service charge per student.
We highly recommend travel insurance, and suggest you consult Forbes for a list of companies that have been deemed efficient and reliable, or use your own travel insurance. Your travel insurance can handle, among other things, any refunds or cancellations that occur two months (120 days) before the start of the class.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Classes are held at my private kitchen in Paris, France. The exact address and details will be sent upon registration.
The fee covers all ingredients, hands-on cooking instruction, a shared meal, and a printed recipe packet.
Yes! Please let me know in advance about any allergies or dietary preferences, and I’ll do my best to accommodate.
Classes typically last 5 hours, including cooking time and the shared meal.
Just bring yourself! All ingredients and equipment are provided. Comfortable shoes and an apron (if you prefer your own) are recommended.
Absolutely! My classes are designed for all levels, from beginners to seasoned cooks.
Yes! Private classes are available upon request. Please reach out to discuss what you’d like.
Gorgeous, as always, Susan. I want to be there again! A magical experience, especially with
friends!
Kyle
