Food for Thought School & College Tours to Opal Coast
One of our most popular Food for Thought Courses is still the Opal Coast. Located only 1 hour from Calais, students can enhance their French culinary knowledge whilst developing a great understanding of the language and food.
Stay in Le Touquet, Camiers, Stella Plage or Montreuil. Cookery demonstrations take place at a local restaurant.
Food for Thought Excursions
- The chocolaterie - Guided tour of a French chocolatier
- Country Market - Explore local produce
- Working cheese and dairy farm - The visit includes a guided tour and a 3 course lunch.
- Wood fired bakery - Baking demonstration
- Visit to the fishing port of Etaples
- Crêpe evening
- Pâtisserie Cookery Demonstration
- Fish and Seafood Cookery Demonstration
- Meat Cookery Demonstration
- Le Succès Berckois sweet makers, Berck - Learn about and enjoy a tasting at a sweet factory
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Curriculum Focus
- Learn about and practise a range of practical food skills/methods/processes to produce quality outcomes
- Learn about the impact and effect of using a range of different equipment to produce food items of quality and consistency
- Explore how quality control checks are used to produce consistent food products on a commercial scale
Student Outcomes
- Develop an awareness of current commercial/industrial processes of food production Learn about methods of food processing and preservation Witness and consider health, safety and quality control in all its aspects Discover the importance of packaging within the food industry
- Produce high-quality dishes that are accurately assembled and well finished to produce a high-quality product overall
- Learn about technological development, cultural and economic issues within the food industry Experience the impact of ICT within the food industry
