| Adventours |
Adventours (aka Armenia Explorer) offers a range of culture and adventure tours in Armenia and the Caucasus region including small group food and wine tours in Armenia with cooking classes and visits to vinyards. |
| Aldo Zilli Cooking School |
Celebrity chef, Aldo Zilli has set up an Italian cooking school in the fishing village of Francavilla al Mare in the Abruzzo region of Italy. At least two UK operators: Magic of Italy, and Sunvil feature cooking holidays there. |
| Annie B's Spanish Kitchen |
Spanish cookery courses in Vejer de la Frontera, Andalucia, for enthusiasts or family fun. |
| Bois Bourdet |
Aga cookery workshops in a 18-century French farmhouse B&B run by a British couple. Bois Bourdet, in Poitou-Charentes, is an AGA France Accredited Cookery School. |
| Burgundy on a Plate |
Small group wine and gastronomy tours in the heart of the Burgundy vineyards, from one to seven days, offering wine tasting, cooking classes, christmas breaks, truffles, cheese, etc... all set in medieval villages and rich landscapes. |
| Caucasus Trekking Company |
A Georgian company founded in 2006 by Gia Bakuridze and Frenchwoman Audrey Bogini, offers food and wine gourmet tours in Georgia. |
| Cook in Italy |
Italian cooking school launched by Federico Crova in 2004, operating english-language cooking courses on Elba and in Chianti. |
| Cook Italy |
Italian regional cookery courses run by Carmelita Caruana in various locations around Italy including Sicily, Umbria & Tuscany. Also gourmet tours in Bologna, Venice & Florence, and cookery courses in SW France. |
| Dapro Viaggi |
Tour operator based in southern Italy offering cultural & gastronomic tours, and cookery courses. |
| Diana Seed's Culinary Adventures |
Italian cookery school with classes held in Rome, Puglia and on the Amalfi coast. |
| Euro Adventures |
Large inbound Spanish tour operator with a range of gastronomic tours and cookery holidays in Spain. |
| Finca Buenvino |
Guest-house the Aracena mountains, Andalucia where owners Jeannie and Sam Chesterton offer seasonal cooking courses/holidays using produce from their organic farm. Their five day and long weekend courses (for approx 6 - 8 guests) have been well reviewed in travel mags and cookbooks. |
| Gourmet Safaris |
Gourmet tours run by food writer, Maeve O’Meara in Sydney and Kangaroo Island, South Australia. |
| Hedonistic Hiking |
Gourmet walking holidays in Victoria, Australia. |
| Italian Cookery Course |
Italian cookery courses run by Paola Baccetti in Casa Ombuto and Franco Palandra in Torre del Tartufo They also teach Spanish, Moroccan and French cuisine. |
| Kea Artisanal |
Greek cooking holidays on the Aegean island of Kea. |
| Kerala Holidays |
Indian cookery holidays in Kerala. |
| La Culinaria |
Seasonal cookery and wine holidays for the culinarily adventurous in Le Marche, Italy. |
| La Varenne |
French cookery school run by American food writer & chef, Anne Willan at a chateau in Burgundy. Five day residential holidays for ten people featuring master classes conducted by Anne Willan plus gastronomic excursions & special tastings of fine wines and cheeses. |
| L'Ecole de Trois Ponts |
Short term residential French language and cooking courses (yes, you can do both at the same time!) in a chateau near Lyon. There are specialised pastry & wine courses too. |
| Le Manoir de Touvent |
French cooking courses in the former childhood home of François Mitterrand near Bordeaux. |
| Let's Cook in Italy |
Family run cooking courses set in a recently restored large "Casa in campagna" 70 kms north of Rome. |
| Mallorca Cooking Holidays |
Cooking courses and gastronomic excursions from a farmhouse hotel on Mallorca |
| Mami Camilla |
Italian cookery course and gourmet food & wine holidays based in Sorrento on the Bay of Naples. |
| New York Culinary Tours |
Guided tours through the markets and restaurants of New York's boroughs. |
| Ocio Vital |
Spanish food, wine and culture operator offering a wide selection of gastronomic experiences wine tours and cooking holidays in Spain, Italy, France and other destinations worldwide such as Morocco and Argentina. |
| Orientarsi |
Torino-based travel agency offering tailor-made wine tours, food tours, cookery courses and study tours for professionals. |
| Scuola Leonardo da Vinci |
Italian language school that runs non-residential courses including Italian Cookery and Italian Wine. |
| Sorrento Cooking School |
The Sorrento Cooking School is an Italian school of cooking for foreigners visiting the Amalfi and Sorrento Coast. It offers cookery courses and daily hands-on cooking lessons as well as culinary programs including food & wine tours in the south of Italy. (And if you want total Italian cultural immersion, they also offer Italian language courses!) |
| Spanish Thyme Traveller, The |
The Spanish Thyme Traveller specialises in gastronomic and culture tours in Valencia, SE Spain, mixing local food and wine with history and landscape. |
| Thai Kitchen Cookery School |
The Thai Kitchen Cookery School in Chiang Mai, Thailand, teaches real Thai cooking, completely hands on, with instructions in English. |
| Tuscan Women Cook |
A week of culinary and recreational activities in the medieval Tuscan hilltop village of Montefollonico. |
| Walnut Grove Cookery |
Gourmet cuisine and residential cooking classes in the Loire Valley south-west of Le Mans. |
| Washington Island Hotel Culinary School |
Chef, Leah Caplan, runs a variety of classes, from one-hour demonstrations to intensive two-day hands-on classes for up to 10 people. The focus is on ingredients found locally, and guest chefs are brought in to teach specialties such as bread baking, cooking with chocolate, etc |
| Yangshuo Cooking School |
Set up in Yangshuo, China by Australian, Pam Dimond, who ran a catering business in Sydney before becoming a tour guide in China. The school teaches a wide selection of Chinese dishes and styles. The Imaginative Traveller feature YCS in their Far East programme. |
