Culinary Holidays in Europe

Finding your passion in the kitchen

Not another culinary workshop! And right you are -- these culinary holidays are not located just a few blocks from your house, they're in a totally different world! Learn to cook in a Greek island or an island in Italy -- or Tuscany. There are several places and different styles of cooking to choose from.

Greek Farmhouse Cooking in Paros, Greece
3 days | departs 2008: custom arrangement

This Greek Farmhouse Cooking workshop introduces you to a new style of Greek cuisine. Everything is prepared from scratch -- experience the more traditional, natural way of gathering and preparing local products. Click here for more info.

Discover different areas of Sardinia and their food and wine specialities, through typical lunches based on fish and meat, workshop and gastronomic itineraries studied for you. Depending on the periods, we will propose you the olives harvesting and their transformation, the grape harvest and the breadmaking, the milking, the honey separation, the harvesting of wild asparagus, the baking of typical sweets, the preparation of typical recipes during cooking courses. Click here for more info.

Join us in sunny Positano for our special women only hands-on cooking at the Secret Garden on the splendid Amalfi Coast. This exclusive program, “Renaissance Women,” is perfect for women wanting to join a small group and meet new friends; or mothers, daughters & grandmothers, or girl friends getting together for a fun cooking vacation in magical Positano. Click here for more info.

What place could possibly be better suited to a Renaissance Woman’s program than an authentic and exquisite renaissance villa, namesake to Isabella d’Este, Renaissance Woman par excellence? Join chef Luciano Parolari at Villa d’Este on the beautiful shores of Lake Como, an ideal spot in which to relax, mediate, and celebrate the qualities that make you a perfect modern day renaissance woman.

Take this opportunity to dedicate some well deserved time to yourself and nurture those skills and dreams that go sadly ignored in the rush and bustle of every day life. For once, dedicate time to yourself, scribble down a few words of poetry, perhaps in the shade of the garden’s five hundred year old plane tree, start to make your dreams in life more concrete by chronicling them in our handmade leather-bound journal, or dedicate a few hours to the study of a favorite writer by Lake Como’s shimmering waters. Plus of course, the pinnacle of your vacation, three hands-on cookery lessons led by Villa d’Este’s world renowned chef Luciano Parolari. Chef Luciano is well known and well loved around the world for his exceptional skill as a chef and teacher, and, it must be said, for his charm and good looks. Don’t miss this opportunity to spend time in the kitchen with such a consummate teacher while enjoying some of the most luxurious and exclusive surroundings the world has to offer. Click here for more info.

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