culinary tours: local travel places let food guide them by addie broyles, austin statesman
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Making travel plansfor next year? A handfulof Austinites have madeit their business to makesure you eat (and drinkand learn about culinarYculture) very well whileyou're on the road.
Danika Boyle's toursthrough Petite Peche& Co. (petitepechean-dco.com) take gueststo Provence, France,and Florence, ItalY, andthough the March touris full, you can still signup for an early June triP($4,5O0, not includingairfare) to Provence.
The George-town-based SojournerTours (soj ournbrtours.com) is focused exclu-sively on France, Partic-ularly eastern France,where one of the found-ers is from, and 2014trips include a stop inSwitzerland. Tours startat $3,530, not includingairfare.
Through her compa-ny, CuisineXplorers(cuisinexplorers.com),Austin food writer Clau-dia Alarc6n takes travel-ers to her hometown ofMexico City to exploreboth urban neighbor-hoods and small townsoutside the capital citY.Prices vary depend-ing on the length of thetrip, and you can sendan email to [email protected] to findout more.
If you're sticking clos-er to home, you mightconsider Kathv Floc-co-McMaster'd.lluraGourmet Tours (alu-ragourmettours.com),which offers tours ofthe Hill Country thatstart at $765. She also of-fers cooking getaways toPhiladelphia and Rome.