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Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa Creates Cooking School

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Chef-turned-author Anthony Bourdain takes every opportunity he can to wax rhapsodic about the food in Vietnam. The Sheraton in Nha Trang is turning the lure of Vietnamese food for tourists into an industry creating a new cooking school.

"The culinary assets in this hotel are not the usual fare," said Michiel de Kleer, director of food and beverage for Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa. "In the same way that diners worldwide respond enthusiastically to Vietnamese food. We always say this hotel is a playground for a chef. I think it's heaven for anyone who with a passion for food."

The hotel's culinary crew will teach guests how to make Vietnamese staples and cocktail training can also be arranged. At Steam 'n Spice, a new dim-sum dining concept, guests can look into the show kitchen and watch dim sum chef Huynh Viet Cuong pull those noodles, a trade he learned in Ho Chi Minh City at Madame Ngoc's Com Nieu Saigon, a spot that was featured on Tony Bourdain's television program, A Cook's Tour.

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Istanbul Culinary Institute Explores The Tastes of Turkey

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If you aren't familiar with Turkish cuisine you are missing out. Turkish cooking is as varied as the country itself. Influenced by its position at the crossroads of Western and Eastern civilizations, the cuisine represents a melding of various traditions. The Istanbul Culinary Institute has created programs to help tourists explore the full wealth of the cuisine. The Institute has just announced their line-up of summer and fall programs featuring carefully curated culinary tours throughout the Southeastern and central regions of Turkey, led by some of the best known women chefs and food writers of Turkey. There is also a special "crash course" on Turkish cooking, offering visitors an intensive five-day culinary educational experience at the ICI. Click through after the jump for three tours:

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Tour Hong Kong With Martin Yan

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I have memories of seeing Julia Child on television as a kid but the chef that was most inspirational to me was another PBS veteran, Martin Yan. His Yan Can Cook show brought Chinese cooking to American audiences at a time when most American knowledge of Asian food was confined to sweet and sour pork. You can travel with the relentless cheerful legend on a special Hong Kong adventure this fall.

The package includes a stay at the Kowloon Shangri-La. Chef Yan will go with you to a local market and accompany you on other adventures including a full-day tour to Lantau Island to see the world's largest outdoor bronze outdoor Buddha statue and eat a meal prepared by the monks at the Po Lin monastery. The tour isn't small, it is open to 60 people and the first 50 people receive a copy of Chef Yan's cookbook, a kitchen knife and chopsticks. The tour costs $2.860 per person double occupancy and runs from October 27-31.

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