The World Is a Kitchen: Culinary Tours

The world has a lot to offer when it comes to cooking schools, classes, and culinary tours. The choices are myriad and research can be exhausting. The goal of our Resource Section is to provide you with a starting point to investigate the world of culinary travel. Here are a few sample links to tours in Europe:

Active Gourmet Holidays
Providing getaways in France and Italy that provide culinary instruction.

APL International Cooking Schools
Focusing on Italy, Spain and France.

Arblaster & Clarke
Italian wine and culinary tours to Piemonte, Naples, Istria and Tuscany.

Artisans of Leisure
A high-end tour company offering private and highly-personalized tours, including hands-on cooking classes in Spain and Italy.

A Taste of Vienna
All-inclusive tour that includes four-star accommodations and classes at Vienna’s leading professional cooking school.

Bon Air Travel
Full-service travel agency offering customized itineraries and food, wine and cooking school tours in France, Italy, and England.

Cantalupo Tours
Offers a “Sicily’s Culinary Splendors” Tour with cookbook author Michele Scicolone.

Central Market Culinary Travel
Travel adventures in France and Greece,

Chocolate Lovers Paradise Tours
Escorted tours in Belgium for chocoholics which include tastings and hands-on participation.

Classic Journeys
Gourmet cooking tours to Provence, Tuscany, and the Amalfi Coast.

CookEuro
Personally escorted cooking programs to Tuscany, Umbria, Romagna, Provence. Also offering Kosher cooking programs to Tuscany, Romagna, and Provence.

Cook Italy
Cooking holidays and food market tours throughout Italy.

A Cook’s Tour
Food and wine hands-on culinary adventures to Italy and France.

Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries
Offering travel programs to Crete, Greece that highlight culture, nature, and cuisine.

CST Tours: What’s Cooking on the Amalfi Coast
Tour includes accommodations, cooking classes, excursions and meals.

Cucina Casalinga
A regional cooking school in Connecticut that offers group and private tours to Italy.

Cuisine International
Provides culinary tours and vacations at specific schools in England, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

Culinary Communion
Food worship in the form of cooking tours. Provence is the main destination, but additional destinations will soon be available.

Culinary Spain
Specializes in exclusive gourmet food & wine tours and cooking vacations throughout Spain.

Culinary Vacations
Chef John Wilson offers culinary vacations in France, Italy, and Spain.

Cumbria on a Plate
Gourmet tours through the Lake District of England led by food writer Annette Gibbons.

Deborah Krasner’s Culinary Vacations
This Vermont cooking school offers week-long culinary vacations to Umbria. Includes meals, accommodations, excursions, and classes.

Diane Seed’s Culinary Adventures
Italian cookbook author Diane Seed leads culinary tours to Rome, the Amalfi Coast and in Puglia.

Discover France
Selections of cooking, wine and walking tours in France.

Discover Friuli
Exclusive culinary tours throughout the Friuli-Venezia region of Italy.

Epiculinary: Distinctive Cooking Journeys
One of the leading providers of culinary vacations, specializing in Europe.

Everyday Gourmet Traveler
Personalized culinary tours of Europe’s best destinations.

Flavours of Italy Ltd
Italian cooking holidays to Lazio, Bolgna, and Puglia.

Food & Wine Trails
Expertly led cruises and small-group trips throughout the world’s best culinary regions.

Gap Adventures
Offering culinary tours to Italy and France.

Georgeanne Brennan Culinary Vacations
Award-winning food writer Georgeanne Brennan leads one-week long programs to Provence.

Gourmet Getaways
Vacations which combine luxury accommodations and small unique cooking classes led by master chefs.

Gourmet on Tour: Culinary Adventures
Upscale company offering cooking courses, gourmet vacations and wine tasting throughout the world.

Gourmet Safaris
Food and indulgence tours in Greece.

Herzerl Tours
All-inclusive “A Taste of Vienna” tour that includes four-star accommodations and classes at Vienna’s leading professional cooking school.

Hungry Passport Culinary Adventures
Cooking, eating, and culinary explorations of Ireland, as well as customized culinary trips.

The International Kitchen
Cooking vacations throughout France, Italy, and Spain.

Italian Connection
Tours offered in Umbria and Sicily, as well as customized culinary tours for small groups.

Italian Cooking and Living
Unique itineraries throughout Italy comprised of visits to local food producers and wineries, tasting seminars, and cooking lessons.

Italy Cooking Schools
Mama Margaret offers cooking, wine, and walking tours of Italy.

Jane Butel’s Culinary Tours
Culinary adventures to Mexico and Spain.

Joanne Weir Culinary Tours
Cookbook author and on-air personality Joanne Weir leads culinary tours to Tuscany, Piedmont, Provence and Veneto.

Laguna Culinary Arts
Offering culinary vacations both domestically and abroad.

L’Arte di Cucinare
Eight-day Sicilian tours featuring cuisine, scenery, and culture.

Les Liaisons Delicieuses
Gastronomic adventures to France.

LiTour: Culture Tours in Bulgaria
One of the rare companies offering culinary tours to Bulgaria.

Mallorca Cooking Holidays
Hands-on cooking workshops in Mallorca, Spain.

My Croatia Ltd.
Offering two weeklong tours in Croatia: Cuisine and Spa holiday and Gourmet and Culture holiday. Includes accommodations, meals, classes, excursions, and guides.

Off the Beaten Path
Tour company specializing in fully guided, small group gourmet, wine, and cultural tours throughout France and Italy.

On the Menu Holidays
Culinary tours to France, Italy, and Spain.

O Sole Mio
Food and wine tours of Italy.

Papillon Select Tours
Classroom, cruise and barge culinary tours in France and Italy.

Peggy Markel’s Culinary Adventures
Handcrafted, personal culinary tours to Tuscany, Morocco, Sicily, and Elba.

A Question of Taste
Offering food and wine tours throughout Spain.

ResponsibleTravel.com
Culinary, cultural, and cooking tours to Greece, Croatia, Crete, England, Italy, and Spain.

Rhode School of Cuisine
Luxury vacations for the gourmet traveler to French and Italian cooking schools.

Rosemary Barron’s Greece
Cookery courses and tailor-made tours are available from Rosemary in Greece, including “Ancient Wisdom, Modern Tables” course, named one of the Top 10 Cooking Courses by CondeNastTraveler.com

Rustico Cooking
Tours throughout Italy with the opportunity to cook with some of the country’s top chefs.

Saranjan Tours
Custom tour design and private guided services to Spain and Portugal.

A Taste of Spain Culinary Adventures
Customized and scheduled gourmet food and wine tours throughout Spain.

Tasting Places
Offering both cooking holidays worldwide, as well as master classes with famous chefs at their restaurants in London.

To Grandmother’s House We Go Cooking Tours
Culinary and cultural tours focusing on legacy cooking in Sicily, Italy.

Toscana Mia
Offering hands-on Italian cooking lessons in Italian countryside homes in Florence and Chianti.

Tour de Forks
Uncommon epicurean adventures to Sicily.

Travel as a Second Language
Cooking and wine-tasting tours in Spain.

Tuscan Way
Offering courses in traditional environments, including a country house: Casa Caponetti, medieval home: Casa Innocenti, country estate: Villa Gaia, and upscale estate: Villa Poggiarello in Tuscany. All-inclusive.

The Juicy Chef: Tuscany Cooking Classes
Culinary programs in Tuscany including cooking classes, wine appreciation, and gastronomic tours.

Vallicorte
Tailor-made gourmet classes and weekend retreats in Tuscany.

Vantaggio Tours
One-week travel programs, including cooking classes, to Italy.

Venice and Veneto Gourmet
Teaching traditional Venetian cuisine in a local palazzo apartment near the Rialto market.

Worlds of Flavor
Operated by the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, Worlds of Flavor leads culinary educational programs to Spain and Italy.

Comments

Thank you for mentioning my business online and in your great book. I would like to request a review copy since I am always looking for special gifts to give to clients who book with me. Thanks!
Jo-Ann Gaidosz
Active Gourmet Holidays

Posted by: Jo-Ann Gaidosz | September 20, 2006 at 05:36 AM