The Best Cooking Tours and Vacations Around the World

You haven’t truly eaten your way through Italy until you’ve savoured the flavors of Sicily. Thankfully, this tour has got your back and stomach. Slow-paced wandering is the best way to fill your stomach, stopping for street food tours in Syracuse and full-on feasts with a cooking lesson in Palermo. Don’t just nibble on a slice of Sicily; get a taste of the whole island on this ten-day TRIPS by Culture Trip culinary tour.

What’s more impressive than coming back from a holiday in Japan with great photographs? Returning with the skills to make sushi. This two-week tour of the Land of the Rising Sun includes a sushi-making class in Tokyo. Sake shots and sumo sightings are also on the menu, as is a trip to Osaka and Hiroshima. Venture to East Asia for the best sushi you’ve ever tasted on this extensive TRIPS by Culture Trip Japan tour.

Cooking tours are the best way to kick off a vacation, as scrumptiously presented by this TRIPS by Culture Trip journey through Ecuador. Before trekking into the Amazon and Andes, you’ll attend an Ecuadorian cooking masterclass at the Altamira restaurant in Quito. Their chefs will show you step-by-step how to prepare traditional plates, then you’ll devour said plates. Save room for dessert: this early day in your eight-day tour has a chocolate-tasting session as its cherry on top.