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Culinary Tours -- Tours, Farms, Food Factories, Food & Wine Trails

A great food tour can lead you to culinary experiences that can be hard to find on your own. Here, you'll find reviews of food tour operators, and ideas about visiting farms and food factories. If you'd prefer to fly solo, see info and articles on following food and wine trails.

Best Food Tours in Seattle: Savor Seattle Food Tours

Savor Seattle Food Tours provides popular food tours throughout one of the country’s most exciting food cities: Seattle. Read an interview with Angela Shen, Savor Seattle's owner, and learn the details on what to expect on one of Savor Seattle's food tours.

Los Angeles Culinary Tour Profile: Melting Pot Food Tours in Los Angeles

Melting Pot Food Tours provides food tours in Los Angeles. Read an interview with Melting Pot’s co-founder Lisa Scalia, and learn the details on what to expect on one of Melting Pot’s Los Angeles tours.

Israeli Culinary Tour Profile: CookinIsrael

Israel food tours led by “CookinIsrael” provides food tours and hands-on cooking classes in Tel Aviv, the Galilee and Jerusalem. Read an interview with Orly Ziv and learn the details on what to expect on one of Cook in Israel’s trips.

Hungarian Culinary Tour Profile: Taste Hungary

Explore Budapest’s food scene with a Taste Hungary culinary tour. Taste Hungary provides food and wine tours throughout Budapest and all of Hungary. Read an interview with Carolyn Banfalvi and learn the details on what to expect on one of Taste Hungary’s tours.

Traders Point Creamery, Zionsville, Ind.

Traders Point Creamery is a small artisan dairy in Zionsville, Indiana, about twenty miles north of downtown Indianapolis. Tour the picturesque grounds and watch a small Brown Swiss cows grazing on grass, and then sample the products: rich and creamy milk and chocolate milk, drinking yogurt, ice cream.

Culinary Tour Operator Profile: Poland Culinary Vacations, Inc.

Poland Culinary Vacations provides food, beer and vodka tours throughout Poland, a relatively inexpensive country with a rich and varied cuisine. Read an interview with Poland Culinary Vacations’ president Malgorzata 'Sarna' Rose, and learn the details on what to expect on one of her tours.

Culinary Tour Profile: Creative Culinary Tours, based in New England

Creative Culinary Tours provides food and wine tours throughout New England and the Eastern United States, with a special focus on New England. Trips include dairies, cheese making, cider making, johnny cake baking, lobster, chowder, berries. Food and wine city tours of New York City, Boston, including North End Boston and Philadelphia. Read an interview with Creative Culinary Tour owner Chris Donnelly and learn the details on what to expect on one of his company’s tours.

Photo Gallery: Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Factory & Visitors' Center

Plan a visit to the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Factory & Visitor's Center in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Visit Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Factory & Visitor's Center in Hilo, Hawaii

Plan a visit to Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Factory & Visitor's Center in Hilo, Hawaii. A great place to get to know more about one of Hawaii's most important (and delicious) exports, to learn how macadamia nut candies are made. Enjoy free samples, pick up some munchies and macadamia nut gifts to take home.

Touring Candy Factories

Find out how sweets are made -- and work in a little sampling -- at these candy factory tours throughout the United States.

Visit the Pretzel & Potato Chip Capital

Lancaster County Pennsylvania is a manufacturing hub for potato chips and pretzels in the United States. Take a factory tour and see how those salty snacks are made.

Visit Vermont Farms

Whether you want to visit a dairy or an apple orchard, Vermont's farmers are ready to welcome you on to their land. Here, search for farms to visit by region, specialty and even find a place to stay.

Visit Wisconsin Dairies

Plan a trip to see where Wisconsin milk becomes all kinds of Wisconsin cheese.

Southern Food Trails

The southeastern United States is home to hearty delicious food, so pack your appetite into the car and hit one of these food trails to sample the best of BBQ, Boudin, Gumbo, and Hot Tamales.
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