New Authentic Cooking Travel Tours

Exploring the cuisine of a destination doesn’t have to limit you to dining in restaurants or taking food tours. You can further experience a place’s food by getting your own two hands in on the action and shimmying up to the stove. Traveling Spoon provides you an easy way to do so, as it offers authentic cooking and foodie travel tours that allow you to experience something locally inspired while giving back to the community you’re exploring.

Recently launched authentic cooking travel tours from Traveling Spoon include heritage pasta-making in Milan, Italy; authentic Japanese home cooking in Kanagawa, Japan; tortilla-making in Mexico City, Mexico; farm-to-table cooking at a resort in the Philippines; traditional mole making in Oaxaca, Mexico; and learning authentic Mayan recipes in Tulum, Mexico.

And if none of these options catch your fancy, Traveling Spoon continues to add new destinations to its offerings every year. New destinations slated to premiere for 2020 travel include New Orleans, Savannah, Alaska, the Bay Area, California Wine Country, Norway, the Azores, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Sicily and more.

Many of Traveling Spoon’s offerings are vegan or vegetarian, too. The homestyle Japanese cooking experience in Kanagawa can be adjusted for plant-based diets, as can the heritage pasta making in Milan, which can also be adjusted for gluten-free diets. Other vegetarian and vegan experiences are available in Ireland, Indonesia and Germany.

In every destination, Traveling Spoon works with locals and promotes sustainable, organic farming and food production. When you book a tour with Traveling Spoon, 65–75 percent of every dollar you spend goes back into the hands of locals.

Traveling Spoon tours start at just $18 per person.