Learn the secrets of cuisine à la Provençale
Join a Michelin-starred chef. Roll up your sleeves and savor the flavors built on fresh herbs, peppery olive oil, garlic, and tomatoes.
Bon Appetit, ProvenceWhen has your pizza dough been tossed long enough? How can you tell if a greenish Provençal tomato is actually ripe? And just how far can sunny walks through vineyards, villages, and olive groves go to exercise your imagination and stimulate your taste buds?
Join us on a food and wine tour for tasty insights.
Our local guides use food traditions to open doors to a region’s cultural life and history. Shoulder to shoulder with the locals, you’ll forage in markets piled high with produce and fresh-caught seafood. You’ll be invited into kitchens for casual culinary instructions with home cooks, professional chefs and cookbooks authors. Just picture yourself talking (and tasting) with bakers and cheese-makers or stalking the woods with a truffle hunter. And of course, you’ll sit down to indescribable meals, from a picnic on a countryside walk to Michelin-starred dinners.
Are you traveling as a party of one? Wonderful!
Our culinary tour approach to the food and wine of a region is ideal for you. You’ll always squeeze the tomatoes, knead the dough, and sit down to superior meals in the congenial company of other travelers as focused on food and wine as you are. In fact, fully a third of our guests are traveling on their own. There’s always a spot at our table for you!
Join a Michelin-starred chef. Roll up your sleeves and savor the flavors built on fresh herbs, peppery olive oil, garlic, and tomatoes.
Bon Appetit, ProvenceGather picnic supplies at San Lorenzo market in Florence. Enjoy a cheese-tasting with a local shepherd. Make ravioli with friends in their farmhouse.
Taste of TuscanyWalk “The Path of the Gods” to a friend's home overlooking the sea. Make your own pizzas in a wood-fire oven using the famous mozzarella cheese from Naples.
Amalfi, Al Buon GustoMarvel at cinnamon-colored Siena on a historic walking tour. Savor an olive oil pressing demo and tasting at a local mill. Admire Frances Mayes' house.
Taste of TuscanyVisit an artisan who crafts terra cotta pots by hand. A vineyard walk leads to a cooking session and wine tasting on the grounds of a 15th century castle.
Amalfi, Al Buon GustoWalk the countryside from your hotel to a magnificent Roman aqueduct. Explore the Roman theater in Orange. Descend into the wine cellars of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Bon Appetit, Provence