A shared table from above with cheese, grilled prawns, tacos, tagliatelle and red wine

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Culinary vacations: eight types of food tour to choose from

Start with what you most want to eat or drink, then pick the place. Every one of our 16 tours sits in two or more categories.

Categories: 8
Tours: 16
Length: 3 hours to 10 days
From: $145 per person

A shared table from four cuisines

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Rings of smoked Texas sausage with crackers, white bread, onion and pickles on butcher paper

Barbecue & Grill food tours

Whole turbot over charcoal in Getaria, a cider house rib steak, then Kansas City burnt ends, Memphis ribs and Lockhart brisket.

3 tours

Rows of Prosciutto di Parma hams curing on wooden racks in a hall in Langhirano

Farms & Producers food tours

A Parmigiano dairy at dawn, a balsamic attic, Modica chocolate, olive mills in Tuscany, Andalusia and Crete, and a crawfish farm.

6 tours

Fishmongers with sardines, red prawns and a swordfish under white umbrellas at La Pescheria, Catania

Seafood Coasts food tours

Catania’s fish market, turbot on the Getaria grills, Lisbon sardines and clams, and grilled octopus in Athens.

4 tours

Montalcino and its fortress on a hilltop above olive groves and autumn vineyards at sunset

Wine Regions food tours

Chianti and Brunello, Etna, Jerez sherry, Douro port and Châteauneuf-du-Pape, plus the Texas Hill Country, always with food.

7 tours

Tubs of daikon, cucumber and purple shibazuke pickles on a counter in a Kyoto market

Street Food & Markets food tours

Palermo’s Ballarò, San Sebastián pintxos bars, Les Halles de Lyon, Tsukiji, Oaxaca’s smoke corridor and the French Quarter.

9 tours

Chicken in dark mole negro with sesame, rice and warm tortillas in Oaxaca

Cooking Classes food tours

Hands-on classes where you cook and then eat: Bologna tortellini, Tuscan pici, Lyon quenelles, Cretan pies, Kyoto dashi and mole.

8 tours

Guests raising cider over salt cod omelet and rib steak at an Astigarraga cider house

Cider, Sake & Spirits food tours

Basque cider houses and txakoli, sake in Fushimi, mezcal at an Oaxacan palenque and a Kansas City distillery, at the local legal age.

7 tours

Three gilda skewers of olive, pepper and anchovy beside txakoli in San Sebastián

City Food Walks food tours

Day walks of three to four and a half hours in Bologna, San Sebastián and the French Quarter, and eight days on foot through Lisbon and Porto.

4 tours

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