Added: 03/21/2006 |
Culinary tours of Italy is the best way to learn Italian culinary artTravel agents assure that culinary tours of Italy are the best way to learn the Italian culinary art and clearly understand Italian cooking recipes. Culinary tours of Italy provide you with an unforgettable opportunity to cook with Italy's top chefs, dine at exquisite restaurants, visit outdoor food markets and generally plunge into the tasty culture of this country. Visitors return home with amazing photos to keep long memories and with a luggage of culinary knowledge to impress their family and friends.
Whether your destination is Sicily, Venice or any other, culinary tours of Italy should start with visiting local markets. Generally, they do, as the travel experts realize that all Italian cooking starts from the market. Each morning the food markets are saturated with flagrant aromas of the freshest food, flying in the air, and an amazing palette of mingling colors at the overloaded stalls of rosy tomatoes, multicolored wild mushrooms, deep green zucchinis and yellow, green, red, orange and scarlet fruit.
Culinary tours in Italy are offered in the same diversity that characterizes the natural landscape and regional cultures. Each region of this unique country is distinguished in its deep-rooted traditions and secret recipes. Tuscany amazes visitors by its fruitfulness that has given a birth to numerous world-class vineyards and olive groves. You can learn to prepare classic dishes, such as ribollita and crostini as well as a variety of lesser-known regional delicacies.
The Island of Sicily is a region of unparallel beauty, marking its seaside shores of Taormina, snow covered slopes of the Mount Etna and a solemn portrait of the Agrigento's Valley of the Temples. The Sicilian cooking focuses on pasta, fish and vegetables, but its recipes and traditions has been formed and evolved over the centuries by the influence of numerous foreign peoples. Culinary tours in Sicily include full-packed days of visits to famous wineries, private farms, numerous guided tours to historical sites as well as cooking demonstrations and daily presentations on food, wine and culture.
The Italian Riviera is one of the most favorite regions among travelers. The beauties comprise scenic hills of the Cinque Terre and a spectacular seaside of the Santa Margherita Ligure, the densely wooded mountains and the small hilltop villages of the entroterra, which is a rustic inland area. The visits to local markets will familiarize you with local fruit and vegetable varieties, the local legendary Liguran cheeses, and you can visit some of the best bakeries, where you can take lessons of Italian baking. The culinary vacationers enjoy both eating and secrets of cooking traditional pasta, staffed vegetables and homey desserts as well as experience the dishes, prepared in the most exquisite restaurants. Art galleries and shops, wood walks and nature drives are essential aspects of culinary tours to the Italian Riviera.
As culinary tours of Italy combine culture, history, nature and cooking, you will nourish both your palate and your soul. Italy is the country with many undiscovered treasures and beauties, culinary tours can reveal all of them. Certainly, the number of your discoveries directly corresponds to a number of days you would like to spend in Italy; spend at least a week in Italy and you wish you had more days to dedicate to the country's research.
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