{"id":671,"date":"2009-07-06T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/newlp\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-07-05T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:13:33","slug":"improve-your-culinary-skills-with-a-us-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/improve-your-culinary-skills-with-a-us-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Culinary Skills With a US Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of traveling abroad, why not go beyond visiting tourist sites and eating at local restaurants? By attending cooking classes in another country, you&#8217;ll gain skills that you can take home with you, and you&#8217;ll be able to recreate the tastes of your favorite local cuisine in your own kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.concierge.com\/ideas\/foodwine\/articles\/1436?mbid=rss_contf&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\">This article <\/a>on Concierge.com has a wonderful, in-depth article on how you can use your US passport to improve your culinary skills.\u00a0 Here are several reasons you might want to attend cooking school overseas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get in touch with the locals: Most international cooking schools offer trips to local markets to collect ingredients,\u00a0 giving you a chance to experience everyday life in the country you&#8217;re visiting, as well as to connect with local people.<\/li>\n<li>Gourmet food: You can learn how to make homemade in Italy, tagines in Morocco, lavender creme brulee in Julia Child&#8217;s French cottage, and more.\u00a0 Plus, you get to eat everything you learn how to make!<\/li>\n<li>When you return home, you can &#8220;wow&#8221; your friends and family with your new cooking skills!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, traveling to another country requires a US passport. As you plan your trip, make sure you allow enough time to receive your passport in the mail. Currently, it takes at least 6 weeks for a passport to come back if you apply with regular processing. If you apply for the government&#8217;s expedited service, you can expect to wait 3 weeks or longer for your US passport to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to get a passport is to apply through a private passport expediting company. These companies will help you with the paperwork and make sure you know what documents you need to send in. Then, they&#8217;ll hand-deliver the application for you and send your passport back immediately, resulting in much faster processing times. In fact, a private passport expediting company like RushMyPassport.com can often get your passport application processed in as little as 24 hours!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait-apply for your<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/newlp\/\" target=\"_blank\"> US passport <\/a>today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With your US passport, you can stay at international cooking schools in other countries, gaining culinary skills that will make you the envy of the folks back home!<br \/>\nus passport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[159,33,64],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-food","tag-international-travel","tag-us-passport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}