These tips tell you how to sift through the huge choice of Italian cooking tours and find the right one for you, so you experience your dream trip, protect your investment in your trip and avoid disappointments.
Ask yourself these questions in these three tips articles.
4. What kind of excursions do I want?
Is this your first time in this Italian region so you prefer sightseeing? Are you a foodie hungering for gastronomic adventures or a wine lover thirsting for winery tours? If you’d like a bit of it all, how much sightseeing and how many food and wine visits do you want?
Often cheaper tours offer mostly sightseeing where you explore and shop in medieval towns and admire beautiful country views. More expensive tours give you exclusive gastronomic visits where you watch artisan producers making cheese or tour wineries with owners who give you special tastings.
5. When do I want to travel in Italy?
Are you keen on the wine harvest? Food lovers swarm to Italy for the harvest in September and October when you have a lots of cooking tour choices so reserve early.
Is warm weather important? Generally in most parts of Italy, mid May to mid October are warm to hot. July and August in some parts of Italy may be too hot for you.
Would you like a quieter time when chefs and winery owners can give you more personal attention? You'll find a good choice of cooking tours in May and June.
In steaming mid August most Italian businesses shut for annual summer holidays. Cities empty out. Masses flock to the mountains or beaches. You'll find less cooking school choice in August.
6. How many people in my cooking class?
Six or eight? You'll get to prepare the whole menu. Ten or more? You'll join the "eggplant" or "tiramisu" team and not learn how to make the other dishes. But the more the merrier! A larger class also may give you demonstration style, not hands-on lessons. Which do you prefer?
Questions continue in Tips 3 in this tips list.
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