3 Cooking Classes in the Middle East to Build a Day Around

1.Authentic Lebanese Cooking Lesson and Meal with Tania’s Family in Beirut

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 62 reviews · from $100Our pick

Join Tania, an agronomist and food safety specialist, in her family home in Forn El Chebbak for a three-hour Lebanese cooking lesson. With help from her mother and former-butch­er father, you’ll prepare five traditional dishes, discuss family recipes and garden produce, then sit down to eat with soft drinks and arak.

“Great hospitality and learnt so much! Come with an empty stomach and thirst for knowledge! Thank you Tania”

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2.Private Half Day Jerash Visit & Optional Cooking Class from Amman

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 36 reviews · from $106

Leave central Amman at 9:00 a.m. for a private drive to Jerash, where a local English-speaking guide leads you through theaters, temples, plazas, and colonnaded streets. You get hotel pickup, admission, Wi-Fi, and a flexible route. Add a cooking class in a local restaurant if you want food alongside the archaeology.

“Great driver who led us through the sellers and lintroduced us to our guide. He made sure we had refreshment Our guide was very knowledgable and friendly and explained all that there was in Jerash through the centurys”

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3.Suhaila (connecting through cooking)

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 24 reviews · from $45Best value

Join Mohammed, his wife, daughter, and baby at their Aqaba home for a three-hour Jordanian cooking class. Prepare lentil soup, vegetables, salad, and a dip, then eat together on the floor. The class welcomes beginners and can accommodate vegan or vegetarian requests. A recipe PDF follows by email.

“Excellent family location. We cooked very delicious Jordanian lentil soup and made vegetables. Very nice people.”

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