Cooking and Food/Wine Vacations

THE ALPINE ADVENTURE AGENCY INTERNATIONAL COOKING SCHOOL AND FOOD/WINE VACATION SERIES

Students take a break for a photo opportunity during one of our extremely popular Tyrolean Cooking School vacations with renowned Chef Giuseppe Cavallari and his team in San Martino di Castrozza, the Italian Dolomites. Photo: Daniela Anderson

We invite you to discover one of Italy's best kept secrets: the unique flavors and complex wines of a little-known region of Italy that is rich with majestic alpine peaks, charming townspeople, and beautiful Tyrolean villages that dot the landscape of one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Italian Dolomites in the Italian Alps!

Picture yourself in the kitchen of a high mountain dairy farmhouse: the polenta is cooking in a copper cauldron over a picturesque fire while you learn how to make cheese with the farmer's wife. Just outside the window, the tinkling music of cowbells echoes through the air as cows graze in the nearby meadows. After sampling the fresh cheese and enjoying a glass of regional wine, you step outside into the beautiful sunshine and crisp and clean mountain air to sit on the terrace and be inspired by your surroundings...

If you are considering a dream cooking vacation in Italy, and want an exciting and dynamic wine and culinary experience that goes beyond the more familiar cuisine of regions such as Tuscany (Florence), Emilia-Romagna (Bologna), Lazio (Rome), Campania (Naples), and Sicily, you have found your dream cooking vacation.

Let us truly immerse you into the traditional kitchens of the Trentino/ Alto Adige - Sud Tirol Region, where Austrian and Italian culinary influences mingle to create a unique flavor and style in the gastronomic culture of this romantic and visually exciting region.

We are the only cooking vacation specialists offering culinary experiences to this region of Italy, and are thrilled to gift our students with the opportunity to study with some of the top chefs, enologists, and sommeliers in the region as well as charming home cooks in their private kitchens!

Guests in our Tyrolean Alps vacations enjoy traveling by cable car to legendary Malga Pala, a high mountain dairy where we watch how Polenta is made in a traditional open kettle over a wood fire and make fresh Tosela cheese in the farmhouse kitchen. Photos: Daniela Anderson