Cooking Vacations – Italy, France, America and more…
What’s the best way to get to know a foreign country or city? It’s through her food. Experiencing the cuisine and culture of a region is the best way to learn about a new place.
Cooking vacations is one of the ways to learn about new cultures through cooking classes and culinary tours. If you are like us, we think about food all the time, especially on vacation. Our palette is extra adventurous. It’s a no brainer for us to combine our holidays with cooking classes, aka cooking holiday!
Cooking travel and vacation packages are garnering popular demand and here are a few of our fave companies offering the best and delicious culinary experience.
Epitourean
What we like: Offers a wide array of culinary gateways across the entire United States, spanning from the east, to the south and to the west coast. They also offer cooking tours in exotic destinations like Thailand, Argentina and Puerto Rico. Lodging is also pre-arranged and each tour package is packed with activities like local orchard and farmer’s market tours.
What we like: One of the pioneers of cooking school vacations for over 15 years. The International Kitchen offers more than 90 cooking vacations in countries like Italy, France, Spain Turkey, Morocco and more. No time for a 3-6 day program? They also offer more than 50 one-day cooking classes in these countries. One of their best sellers is a cooking vacation in Provence, France – called “Bonjour Provence at Domaine de Valmouriane”. The itinerary is filled cooking classes over a 6-day period, wine tasting tours and visits to local candied fruit makers and chocolatier.
Follow The International Kitchen on Twitter @theintlkitchen
What we like: Learn the art of authentic Italian cooking from talented chefs from Italy. Cooking Vacations offers wide selection of cooking classes and holidays from the hills of Tuscany, to the Amalfi Coast and Sicily. Each cooking program will teach you the techniques to master the art of traditional Italian cooking, e.g making artisan breads, pasta and pizza. Tuscany cooking vacations are always in demand! Spend 8 days in Tuscany at a charming farmhouse villa – The Fabrizio Tuscan Estate. You’ll learn to make artichokes and tomatoes stuffed with herbs and cheese, gnocchi ragù, Tuscan almond cookies and more. This cooking gateway also includes visits to farmer’s market and excursion through the Tuscan Hills, visiting Chianti and “la strada di vini”, the street of wine country, touring through San Gimignano-Italy’s wine country.
Follow Cooking Vacations on Twitter @CookingItaly
What we like: Need something more intense? CIA’s bootcamps are intensive programs that allows you to immerse yourself to learn to cook like a pro from famed chef-instructors. Their 2-5 days cooking classes are offered in 3 beautiful locations – New York’s bountiful Hudson Valley, California’s incomparable Napa Valley, and the vibrant city of San Antonio in southern Texas. Most cooking classes are offered based on cuisine, this allows you to specialize and be a pro in one cuisine by the end of the program. Their cooking programs range from Mexican cuisine to Asian, from Mediterranean to French. Many choices to choose from!
So, is a cooking vacation right for you? You don’t have to be an expert chef. All you need is the love of food, love to cook and love to eat adventurously!
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