Tans fade. Skills last.
This October the first door opens — Martin Lippo × EducatedTraveler: thirty-five hours of modernist technique in his Barcelona laboratory, in English, built for working chefs. And especially for yacht chefs.
Tell me the skill you want to learn — I show you whose door opens
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What this is
EducatedTraveler is two things.
One: a catalogue that puts the spotlight on hands-on skills you could make a life of.
Two: the weeks I design with an instructor, for people who want a particular way to learn a craft.
Why EducatedTraveler
No listing fee, no placement, no commission. A craft is not on it because someone paid to be there — and it opens because someone asked for it.
The school, who still teaches it by hand where a name can be given, what your hands actually do there — and a link straight to them, so you can go direct without me.
Some crafts read “a place, not a pick — no school named”. Every open one carries researched, not checked and the date it was read; the rest say not open yet. A blank costs one entry; a bad recommendation costs the reason to believe the next one.
One bench, in a master’s own working room, beside a handful of people learning the same skill. Not a tour and not a demonstration — you do the work, and you can ruin the piece.
The Catalogue of Skills
A free record of crafts still taught where they are alive. Every entry tells you the same four things — and sends you to the school direct, without me.
Most are catalogued and not yet checked in full. A craft opens because somebody wrote and asked for it — and what I find goes up for everyone, not just the person who asked.
Open the catalogueLab Weeks
I design it with the person who still does that work by hand — an instructor, an expert, a master — and it runs in their own working room. One bench, a small group, hands in.
It is the one thing here that costs money. A week is confirmed at ten seats, or every euro goes back.
The first week
Barcelona · 22–26 October
Thirty-five hours of modernist technique in Martin Lippo’s laboratory, in English, for chefs who already cook for a living.
€1,500 VAT included · a €350 deposit takes a seat
The Circle
Joining is free, and it is one note: the craft you would give a week of your life to, and how you would want to learn it.
To hear about it
When a week is real, the Circle hears first — before anyone else. Never a drip, one click to leave.
To ask for it
Weeks are chosen by what people ask for, not by a calendar. Say which one should exist next.
I make the introduction; I don’t build anything around one person. What I find goes up on the catalogue for everyone, not just for you.
Founder · Every skill here, researched in depth by me
I grew up in the Jura — about as far from the sea as you can get in France. I left school at 18 to find out what the world was really about, and I've been crossing it by sea and by land ever since — fifteen years of that, ten of them cooking on yachts, learning from the masters I met along the way. Here is some of it.
I · The beginning
Everyone expected university and a career. I finished a science baccalauréate, worked factory shifts until I had two thousand euros, and flew to Melbourne instead.
II · The kitchens
It started in a Darwin dishpit, the day the chef ran short-handed and put a knife in my hand. The Michelin star came years later. Every chef a teacher.
III · The sea
First classes in Sydney Bay, a place on regatta crews by asking at the dock, then oceans. The sea cares about judgment, not a résumé.
IV · The depths
Freediving Mexican cenotes and the open blue, sharks in the Galápagos. Fear turned into respect.
V · The heights
Annapurna at 4,130 m, passes across the Himalaya. The people on the trail taught me more than any classroom.
VI · The stillness
Breathwork in Bali, Ayurveda in India — and in the Thar desert, the idea for all of this took shape.
What EducatedTraveler is: a skill, a place, a person, your people.
Every real skill is learned the same three ways — where it's alive, from a master who'll hand it over, beside the handful chasing the same thing.
“I never found my teachers. They found me.” Now I'm building the way in — the map I wish I'd had, and the doors it opens. The first one opens this October, in Martin Lippo's Barcelona laboratory.
Between the weeks I keep the Atlas — a free record of where crafts are still taught at the source, ranked by community, not by who pays. Nobody buys a place on it: a craft opens when someone writes and asks for it.