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Hands-On Culinary Travel
November 5th, 2009
If you’ve been following my recent blogs and received the most recent issue of to TraveLuxe, you know that I’ve been focusing on gastronomic travel. (If you are not following the blog or TraveLuxe, you should be!) Why so much focus on this tasty type of travel? For one, I love to eat. More specifically, I love to eat international cuisine and explore new cultural food opportunities. In addition, with the winter holidays not so slowly creeping up on us, many people have food on the brain which makes it a great time to explore the culinary customs throughout the world.
In this blog, I contacted my Slow Food group on linked in to hear from those who specialize in food tours (both providers and travelers). If anyone knows how to do food right, it’s this group! Here are some of their great finds:
Taste Canterbury Food and Wine Tours, New Zealand: Enjoy an in depth look at the local food and drink producers in the area, many of which may be tough to find elsewhere! Some of the spots visited include a wasabi grower, cheese producer, sushi producer that farms its own fish, farmers markets, vineyards, and chocolatiers. The tours are in and around the city of Christchurch.
Delicieusement Votre, Lyon, France – This country’s most famous food city is sure to please the taste buds. With Delicieusement Votre, participants get hands on experience preparing their meal from start to finish under the guidance of accomplished French chefs (who speak English as well!). When the cooking is done, enjoy a glass of wine with your meal to celebrate your culinary creation!
Gourmet on Tour, Marrakech – “Ride a camel in Palmeraie, venture into the Atlas mountains, tour the spice souk and dine under the stars, cook couscous with the village ladies”. Yes, these are all activities you can partake in through Gourmet on Tour’s Marrakech tours. In fact, they provide tours throughout France, Italy, the UK and Ireland, Morocco, US, Mexico, Asia and Spain!
Now that I’m hungry, I’ve decided these tours are way too good to devote just one blog to! look out for part two coming your way soon!
Special thanks to Danielle Ellis for the suggestions for France and New Zealand and to Judith von Prockl of Gourmet on Tour for the details provided in this post!
