Authentic Spanish Cuisines
Epicurean Ways offers culinary tours and cooking vacations throughout Spain. We know the quality and variety of authentic regional cuisines and products in Spain. Our unrivaled access to local chefs, winemakers and culinary specialists allows us to immerse travelers in authentic Spanish food and wine experiences through cooking classes, wine tastings, market shopping, and regional explorations. We partner with historic boutique hotels and inns, expert guides, outstanding chefs and renowned restaurants. The culinary traveler will experience authentic Spanish food and wine through vacation cooking classes, culinary travel, winery tours, urban food escapes, culinary programs in country villas, walking trips through wine country, and tours of Spain’s fascinating regions.
Our expertise in Spanish cuisine takes you behind the scenes with chefs, home cooks, winemakers, and artisan cheese makers. You will visit traditional shops, markets and olive oil mills; participate in a vendimia– grape harvest–or an olive harvest; and delight in the cuisines of Spain, both traditional and avant-garde. Our culinary programs and tours are designed based on our intimate knowledge of the cuisines, the wines and the destinations in Spain. Our tours reflect our bias for great food in intriguing settings. We take you to towns and tables throughout the country. Some are rustic and some are refined–and all are authentic.Travel to the heart of a region of Spain, tasting as you go.
Culinary Adventures and Food and Wine Tours
We offer two distinct types of culinary tours in Spain.
Our relaxed, regionally focused Culinary Adventures take you inside Spanish regional kitchens for hands-on classes. Or, they immerse you in a place and its cuisine, letting others do the cooking.
Our Food and Wine Tours, led by Spain expert Gerry Dawes, explore the varied terrain of Spanish regional food, wine and culture. Each trip indulges you in a single region of Spain.
Upcoming Trips
Seville Cooks
Immerse yourself in Spanish cooking for 4, 5 or 6 days in seductive Seville. A renowned local chef teaches Andalusian secrets in his restaurant kitchen.
Culinary Adventures in Andalucía
That Andalucía seems exotic is not surprising given its history. Andalucía is the heartland of traditional Spain. Gastronomically, this has kept the cuisine and traditions relatively intact. What better place could there be to immerse yourself in the food and wine?
Cooking in Barcelona
Barcelona: joyful, exuberant, slightly chaotic and definitely Mediterranean, captivates scores of visitors.
Cooking in the Empordà
A cooking-intensive culinary vacation featuring five cooking classes, wine tastings, visits to an artisan cheese maker, an olive oil mill, wineries, local markets and restaurants.
From the Blog...
The New Spanish Vegetable
Food and travel writer Anya von Bremzen, author of The New Spanish Table, turns her discerning gaze to the newfound focus on vegetables in some …
Andrew Zimmern with José Andrés
Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel, has an interview on his blog with José Andrés, the Spanish chef (author of Tapas: A Taste of Spain in …
Obama and Jamón?
I read in The Washington Post (Thursday, April 3, 2008) that Obama toured the Italian Market in Philadelphia and tried pata negra at the hands of vendor Ezekial Ferguson. Ferguson …
