Custom Designed Cooking School Tours in Italy
for Gourmet Travellers or Professional Chefs and Culinary Students

For Professional Chefs: how to learn and do just what you want in your custom designed, Italian cooking professional program so you can expand your reportoire in Italian food and wines

Gourmet Italy travellers--below you'll see all the services and choices we can offer you!

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Custom Designed Tours
So You Experience Just the Italian Cooking Tour You Want, When You Want

Let Margaret and her dear Italian friends, Elio, Marcello and Raffaella, and Lara design just the cooking adventure you've always dreamed of in Piedmont, Riviera, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria or Sicily in Italy, whether you're a beginner cook or a gourmet cook. Choose one, two or three regions if you like.

Wherever you live, whatever your reason, however many people you are,
we can design just the Italian cooking school tour for you.

We've custom designed cooking tours in Italy for groups of two to 14 from Canada, England, United States, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore and Brazil. We've created cooking tours for:

* couples celebrating 10th, 20th, 25th, 30th and 40th wedding anniversaries or honeymoons
* families wanting to enjoy quality, fun times together
* groups of women friends getting away from it all
* groups of friends who love cooking together
* couples celebrating 30th, 40th, 50th or 60th birthdays with family and friends.

Talk with us about what you'd like to do in Italy and we'll create it for you

Maybe you'd like to rent your own car but want a local Italian friend to drive and be your guide so you just show up, sit back and immerse yourself in local scenery, culture, food, cooking and wine.

Perhaps you and your group would like to relax in a comfortable, private minivan with driver and local tour guide who look after everything for you. All you have to think about is enjoying yourself in Italy!

If you're independent souls, you may want us to make all your arrangements for you so you go exploring at your pace with everything already laid out in your specially designed Italian cooking and wine tour itinerary.

We can include whatever you'd like: taking peaceful walks in the countryside, cooking every day, dining in special Italian restaurants you heard about, visiting lots of wineries or shopping.

Just let us know what you'd like to do in Italy, when you'd like to go, how long you'd like to stay, what your budget is, how many people you are, and what's really important to you in your cooking holiday. Have a look at our tour package itineraries for an idea of what we can put together for you. Add your own suggestions too.

We can design short or long tours, focusing on one region, or sampling many regions in Italy. Just let us know what you'd like.

Sample itineraries

Custom Tour Members' Comments

Contact Margaret Cowan today for the Italian cooking tour you've always wanted...and more!
Phone: 1-800-557-0370 or 604-681-4074
Fax: 604-681-4909
E-mail: margaret@italycookingschools.com