Culinary Travel with Epicurean Ways

We specialize in providing authentic culinary experiences in the regions of Spain.

We believe that food and wine are among the most pleasurable ways to experience a place and become acquainted with its culture. The conviviality of the Spanish table, the purity of the food products and the wealth and inherent simplicity of the cuisine enchant us. We share this with you on our culinary journeys.

We do this by exploring kitchens, markets, producers, vineyards, and tables. We take you off the beaten track to places where modern innovative winemaking methods pose a counterpoint to traditional regional cuisines. You may have private cooking lessons in a back-roads village inn, a behind-the-kitchen-door cooking demonstration with a renowned chef, a bodega tour with the vintner, a taste of artisan cheese, or a private tapas tour.

Spain holds within it a number of remarkable regional cuisines and wines emanating from diverse landscapes and cultures. Regional variations in Spain include languages and cultural identities as well. Culinary tours with Epicurean Ways explore these regional cuisines, wines and cultures.

Our Tours

Our Culinary Adventures are cooking tours that allow the participants to savor a region in Spain with a small group of fellow food and wine travelers. These small-group culinary travel experiences are intimate, maximizing your contact with local chefs, winemakers and artisanal food producers.

Gerry Dawes and Jane Gregg will be your personal guides on our Food and Wine Tours. The tours result from their years of experience traveling, eating, drinking and cooking in Spain. Gerry and Jane will take you to the parts of Spain where they have lived and traveled, and introduce you to the gastronomy, places, chefs, vitners and local producers. You will eat in a number of traditional Spanish restaurants, taste wine in cellars personally chosen by Gerry, and stay in unique hotels.

Sustainable Travel

We support international sustainable travel by providing local authentic culinary travel experiences. In doing so, we may help to preserve the unique food and wine cultures of the regions we explore. We belong to Sustainable Travel International.

Who We Are

Jane Gregg

Jane Gregg, Founder and Director of Epicurean Ways, is a long-time lover and passionate student of Spanish culture and cuisines. She studied Spanish Literature in Salamanca, at La Universidad Complutense de Madrid and at the University of Minnesota. She worked as a teacher and translator for many years in Madrid. Since 2003 she has lived in Cádiz, Pontevedra, Barcelona, and the Costa Brava, and now divides her time between Charlottesville, Virginia, and Catalunya in Spain. She shares the guiding of the cooking tours with local professionals in Spain.

Gerry Dawes

Gerry Dawes is a leading expert in Spanish gastronomy. Gerry lived in Andalucía for many years and these days he travels to Spain frequently throughout the year to speak at gastronomic conferences, research Spanish food and wine, and lead culinary tours. When not in Spain, he can be found in New York.

Our Chefs

Willy Moya

Willy trained at the Cordon Bleu in Paris, worked as a chef in both Paris and London before coming to Sevilla to open the highly acclaimed restaurant, Pocio. Willy’s signature cuisine is based on traditional Spanish cooking with a creative flair. Willy teaches our cooking classes in Sevilla.

Vicenç Fajardo

Vicenç grew up in Australia and has lived in the Empordà region of Catalunya since coming to Girona years ago to begin his culinary studies. His restaurant in La Plaça de Madremanya serves inspired traditional Catalan cuisine.

Alicia Juanpere

Alicia spent many years as a professional dancer in Barcelona before turning her attention to her other love–cooking. She has been teaching Catalan cooking for many years in Barcelona and Masroig, in the Montsant wine region of Catalonia.