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Sicilian Flavours
(Option: Customized Itineraries)
Sicily, Italy - 6 nights
Available year round
Experience six days of magical travel through the stunning Sicilian landscape, beginning with a stay in the enchanting rural setting of Agrigento, surrounded by verdant gardens and heady, fragrant scents. At Fontes Episcopi you will enjoy the Famiata, what may seem like a simple, traditional experience is elevated into a memorable highlight of your journey, complemented by two additional exquisite accommodations that ensure comfort, beauty, and authenticity throughout your stay!
You will also have a market visit followed by a cooking class in Siracusa. This tour will allow you to discover the most traditional Sicilian dishes in Palermo, Agrigento, Catania, Siracusa, Taormina and the Etna Volcano area.
Peruvian Cooking and Trekking Adventure
(Option: Customized Itineraries)
Lima and Cusco, Peru - 8 nights
Available year round
Experience and learn how to cook the most popular dishes of a culture that has more than 1000 years of legacy from mixing many techniques and ingredients from many parts of the world. Discover one of the New World’s Seven Wonders: Machu Picchu; and get there walking through the same path once used by the Incas. A millenary culture, majestic geography and friendly people are the framework of one of the trendiest cuisines in the world.
Savory and Sweet Southwest France
Gascony, France - 3 or 5 nights
Available April to September - Sunday to Friday
For an extraordinary cooking vacation, we invite you to a quaint village in southwest France. It is here where you will learn classic French recipes as well as the cuisine from the Gascony region. Your instructors are two talented and professional chefs. Classes will take place at the cooking school which is on a hill overlooking beautiful fertile farmland. Your lovely accommodations are right next door to the cooking school.