French Culinary Atelier with Chef Cécile Penot Dietrich

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 From 5:00 PM To 7:00 PM Add to Calendar 2026-03-10 17:00:00 2026-03-10 19:00:00 French Culinary Atelier with Chef Cécile Penot Dietrich Celebrate Francophonie Month in the kitchen. Learn to prepare a shrimp palombo and a coconut flan infused with Madagascar vanilla in this festive, hands-on cooking class -in French! French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

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***All the workshops are in French***

What is more French and convivial than cooking and sharing a meal with friends? In honor of Francophonie Month, this special class celebrates the diversity of the French-speaking world through food. Together, we will prepare a fragrant palombo de crevettes, evoking the flavors of Francophone coastal cuisines, and finish with a silky flan coco des antilles delicately scented with Madagascar vanilla.

Perfect for the season, this hands-on cooking class celebrates Francophone flavors and traditions. Chef Cécile Penot Dietrich will guide you step by step in preparing a fragrant palombo de crevettes, followed by a silky Antillean coconut flan infused with Madagascar vanilla.

After the cooking part, it is the apéro time! You will eat what you made while enjoying a glass of wine and chatting with your fellow French food lovers. As we say in France: santé!

Shrimp Palombo & Flan Coco

$70/$85

Cécile Penot Dietrich

Cécile Penot Dietrich is a professional Chef graduated from CSCA professional Chef’s program. She created French in the Kitchen, a cooking class business in Arlington, MA, in 2015. She is passionate about sharing her decades long love for cooking with kids and adults by teaching a variety of classes including after school, corporate events, thematic classes.

Originally a French attorney by trade, changed my career path after her relocation to the Boston area, 15 years ago.

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