8 Delicious Cooking School Vacations Every Foodie Has to Try

Spice Spoons, Phuket, Thailand

Before you ever step into the open-air kitchen with views of the Andaman Sea at Anantara’s Spice Spoons vacation cooking school to make addictive Massaman Beef Curry or sweet Sticky Rice with Mango, you’ll visit a local market to explore some of the region’s more unusual ingredients. Expect to see hand-shaped galangal, long beans almost a yard in length, tiny egglplants the size of a thumb, and a rainbow’s worth of spicy peppers. It’s the latter you should ask for assistance with as you create a delicate Tom Kha Gai coconut chicken soup; but luckily the instructors here are well versed in, well, spice. Here are seven authentic Thai recipes you can make at home.