Not a Cooking School. A Real Home.
Cook in a rustic family kitchen surrounded by olive, fig and almond trees. Learn traditional recipes in an intimate setting with a maximum of four guests.
Chef Deborah Lee Marlow
My cooking is inspired by generations of family traditions, a lifetime of international travel, and the simple, wholesome dishes shared around tables across the world—always prepared with heart, fresh ingredients, and genuine hospitality.
My cooking is inspired by generations of family traditions, a lifetime of international travel, and the simple, wholesome dishes shared around tables across the world—always prepared with heart, fresh ingredients, and genuine hospitality.
I’m a happily retired American woman in my mid 70’s living my dreamlife here in the hills above the market town of Loule in the Algarve of Portugal. I live on a small farm 15minutes from the sea. I’ve owned several award-winning restaurants all of them based on rural country foods. When I grew up my mom and her sisters were passionate cooks. They were German women who’d lived as colonists in Ukraine, Korea, China, Japan and Southeast Asia such amazing food they cooked!!!!
I was raised in logging & gold mining camps from Alaska to California.We often lived without running water or electricity so growing, hunting and preserving food was critical for survival. And ‘the slow cooked over fire’ food my mother served in these wild places was mouth wateringly delicious. As I became more successful and travelled around the world with my software company, I never forgot these tasty open-air home cooked meals, and I doggedly sought out farmers, street food vendors, shepherds and fisher folk to eat the food they ate at home every chance I could. With deep respect and humility, we will try to duplicate this food here in my cooking class.
