Learn Caribbean cooking from an award-winning Caribbean chef
St. Lucia’s Ladera Resort offers five days of cooking demonstrations, tutorials, and excursions in grand style
Soufrière, St. Lucia, West Indies (April 5, 2004) - Learn Caribbean cooking at St. Lucia’s number one resort, as voted by readers of Condé Nast Traveler in the 2004 Readers Choice Awards. For the second year Ladera Resort will be hosting the popular five-day/four-night Island Cuisine Experience.
From October 13 to 17, 2004, Orlando Satchell, executive chef of Ladera’s internationally acclaimed Dasheene restaurant, will lead guests in interactive cooking demonstrations, culinary and wine tutorials, and excursions to St. Lucia’s markets and private purveyors, such as the colorful Castries produce market, island farms, and cocoa and coffee plantations. Topics for the small and personalized classes include Spice It Up, innovative approaches to cooking with Caribbean spices; Head to Tail, techniques and preparation for cooking with fresh fish; From Fruit to Flowers, decorative tropical displays; and New World Wines, a tasting and lecture on pairing wines with spicy Caribbean flavors.
Chef Satchell has earned a reputation around the globe for his innovative style and award-winning Caribbean cooking. In 2003 he received the Best Caribbean Chef Award, presented by the Caribbean Food Emporium and Caribbean Cuisine Consortium based in the UK, and made his debut on the New York culinary stage as the first St. Lucian chef to cook at the prestigious James Beard House. In 1998 he was the first Caribbean chef invited to cook at the Cordon Bleu School in London. Born to Jamaican parents in Birmingham, England, Chef Satchell has brought Caribbean cuisine into many top London hotels, including the Park Lane, the London Hilton, and the Landmark Hotel, as well as to restaurants in places as far flung as Florida and Singapore. When he is not at Ladera Resort, Chef Satchell manages Nouvelle Caribbean, a catering concept based in London.
Ladera’s Dasheene restaurant is known throughout the Caribbean for its innovative kitchen and creative island cuisine. Unlike many island resort restaurants, Dasheene’s menu is based on 100 per cent native ingredients and relies on local bounty for its fresh, innovative take on West Indian cuisine. Produce is grown exclusively for the resort by island farmers and neighboring plantations, fish is caught daily in the nearby waters, and spices are harvested from indigenous St. Lucian plants. Chef Satchell has been at the forefront of St. Lucia’s sustainable cooking movement, encouraging other local chefs to use native produce and products, and to claim Caribbean cooking’s rightful place in world cuisine.
Located in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, Ladera Resort is uniquely situated in the mountains overlooking the port town of Soufrière in St. Lucia. Known for its distinctive architecture modeled on luxury tree-house living, Ladera’s sheltered and completely private guestrooms were built with only three walls to provide dramatic ocean views framed by the volcanic Piton Mountains.
The 2004 Island Cuisine Experience package includes four nights accommodation in a one-bedroom open-air suite with private plunge pool; welcome reception in the resort’s Tcholit bar with drinks and tropical hors d’oeuvres; daily hands-on tutorials in Caribbean cuisine; daily excursions to local purveyors; tour and tasting at St. Lucian Distillers, producers of the Caribbean’s award-winning aged rum; interactive cooking demonstrations; Dasheene recipe collection, including all dishes from the Island Cuisine Experience; Ladera Resort official chef’s jacket; and a farewell dinner at Dasheene, including wine.
Island Cuisine Experience rates, for four nights, double occupancy, not including the eight per cent government tax and 10 per cent service charge are as follows: $1,180 for a one-bedroom suite with plunge pool, $1,540 for a deluxe one-bedroom suite with plunge pool, $1,640 for a two-bedroom suite with plunge pool, $1,760 for a villa with indoor plunge pool, and $2,600 for a luxury villa with pool. For each additional person in a villa add $35.
For reservations call Ladera Resort toll free at 1-800-738-4752.
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