culTOURinaria
German Cuisine and Cooking - Go East
Leisure Tours for Gourmets and Friends of German Cuisine
Study Tour: Berlin - March 2011 - Restaurant R200 - restaurant magazine
We as culTOURinaria assisted making contacts, preparing / planning the trip and provided an on-site guide.
The Study Tour: Berlin - Program
Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany - October 2012
Impressions of the Culinary Olympics Tour - October 2012
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“German Cuisine and Cooking” tours offer a huge variety of (East) German cuisine with its local specialties as well as a broad spectrum of cuisine related activities: cooking classes with professional chefs of high reputation, tastings, fresh produce market visits, food manufacture visits, excursions to local sustainable farmers, grocery stores and shops with international and German products, German culinary lifestyle, impressive bar / café / pub / restaurant scenes and much more – not to mention the vibrant cities and historic places with countless cultural sites, galleries, museums, architecture, arts and much more…
All tours are customized according to the special interest of the group members. We work out the details together with you to create an unique experience. You can learn the crafts of professional cooking and reveal exciting secrets of contemporary German cooking with traditional seasonal ingredients. You can join the chef on his/her shopping tour for top-quality fresh produce at the market. You can taste fresh made beer, wine, cheese, coffee, chocolate, bread, pastry, sausages, fruits, herbs and many more typical German products – traditional and modern. Depending on the season you can go on scenic trips to visit local eco-friendly farmers in rural agricultural regions. This way you can learn more about where the German food comes from and how it is produced. We will organize for you to meet the chefs, restaurant/bar owners, brewers, winemakers, someliers, farmers, food manufacturers, grocery shop owners and we will invite native German cuisine enthusiasts – sharing the hands-on experience, trips, dinners or tastings. And of course you will have enough time to explore the local culinary delicacies individually.
Along the culinary part of the tour can explore the highlights of historic and modern culture, architecture, art, music, design, famous German, urban lifestyle and much more.
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Our tour example takes you to three exciting destinations in the Eastern part of the country: to
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We are members and supporters of Slow Food. The international Slow Food movement is founded upon the concept of eco-gastronomy, a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet - for a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life: eco-friendly, local and seasonal Culinary delights of high quality! Re-awake and train your senses! Rediscover the joys of eating! Care where food comes from and how it's made!
Example for a tour program Berlin - Leipzig - Weimar (culinary highlights - ideas):
Cooking class “Creative Culinary Berlin” and Farmers market visit with a local chef
Small local delicacy shop “Esskultur” in the trendy district “Prenzlauer Berg”
Breakfast / brunch “
Wine tasting at a wine bar or wine shop / gourmet dinner
Traditional
Delicacies department store KaDeWe – international specialties with guided tastings
Krongut Bornstedt Potsdam (microbrewery and destillery in a historic royal ambience)
Day trip to the Spreewald region (home of the Sorbs with their lively folk culture and specialties – hands-on workshop on pickled gherkins, bread baking and smoking fish)
Max-Liebermann-Villa and backyard Café with organic pastries
Hering Fine-Dining porcelain manufacture / KPM porcelain manufacture
… and much more …
Cooking class “Contemporary Leipzig Cuisine”
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Hands-on experience at the local fruit or vegetable harvest (depending on season)
Trip to the historic “Rotkaeppchen” champagne cellars Freyburg with tasting
Dr. Schrebers gardens and German urban gardening tradition
Organic Cheese Dairy visit / Water buffalo farm
Brew pub with local beer specialty tasting “Leipziger Gose”
… and much more …
Cooking class “Classic Thuringian Cuisine”
German potato workshop (the amazing variety of potato types and dishes)
Luther fortress Wartburg with the castle gourmet restaurant
Luther town
Typical Thuringian beer house and restaurant in Thuringia’s capital
Tea with Anna Amalia / gourmet dinner in
Goldhelm chocolate manufacture / Thuringian specialties shop - tasting in
Art & secrets of traditional Thuringian dumplings and grill sausages
Historic mill with bakery and microbrewery Buchfart / Mustard mill Kleinhettstedt
“Art and Cheese Farmyard” Goerbitzhausen
… and much more …
All tours are customized according to the group’s preferences and interest. All restaurants, farms, manufacturers etc. are of top-quality and hand selected. We also try to implement local markets and food festivals such as the famous “
Please contact us for further information, detailed itineraries, travel dates for your custom tour.
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Prices for 11-days / 9 nights "German Cuisine and Cooking" Tours start at:
$3,099 per person (minimum 8 participants, ground package, double occupancy)*
Ground package includes:
9 nights double occupancy in selected 3-4 star hotels, several cooking classes, private bus and driver or group tickets for selected tour related trips, guided sightseeing tours, guided trips to food manufacturers and farms and farmers markets, entrance fees for tour related museums, exhibitions, sights and events, welcome dinner, farewell dinner, tastings (wine, beer, chocolate, local specialties), additional group dinners or lunches, native German English speaking travel guide 24/7.
Package does not include:
airfare (individual arrival and departure), optional tours, personal expeditions, travel insurance.
The $ price is based on a currency exchange rate 1 Euro = 1.35 USD.
The $ price is subject of change due to currency exchange rate fluctuations.
* Final price depends on the specific itinerary, group interest, season and availability.
The tours for the adult travelers may also include wine tastings, visits to distilleries, microbreweries and beer gardens. We can also add cultural events like concerts, local festivals, town markets and so on.
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Special offer for Gourmet Travelers and Friends of German Cuisine:
"With 10 you go free!"
If you get a group together of 10 or more people, you travel for free!*
And we will work out a tailor-made itinerary to the travel destinations of your choice - together with you!
* double occupancy, ground package, air fare not included
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Please contact us for further information, detailed itineraries, travel dates for your custom tour.
We also offer an Individual Trip Planning Service for existing groups and independent travelers!
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The "German Cuisine and Cooking - Go East" is a project of
The German American Connection and Sullivan's Custom Tours.
