SPEND A WEEK IN ITALY WITH ELIZABETH AND SOPHIE
My friend Elizabeth Minchilli, whom I met during the Eat Pray Love years, runs these food tours through various parts of Italy. She has a deep, abiding, passionate Italian-based delight in making sure that your senses should be stimulated at all times, whether it’s through music, storytelling, food, or learning a new language. Why bother to have these senses if you’re not going to use them? In America, we still come from a puritanical culture that is very suspicious of the senses, and that they have to be controlled or else they can lead to sin. The Italians just sort of have a richer, old-world idea about that—that actually the senses can be trusted, nourished, and delighted, and that’s what constitutes a good life.
~ ELIZABETH GILBERT, AUTHOR OF EAT, PRAY, LOVE
So often, when I post something delicious on social media, the comments that I receive are along the lines of ‘Can I come too?’ or ‘Is there a place set for me?’
The answer is: Yes. Yes, you can.
Would you like to join Sophie and me for a week-long, food-filled adventure in Italy? We are currently leading delicious tours through Umbria, Sicily, Puglia, and Parma. During this time, we have the chance to explore not only the food and wine we all love but the culture that surrounds it. Farms, cheese makers, butchers, ceramic studios, paper makers, ancient churches, and cobblestoned-paved towns.
Our schedule for 2024:
March 17-23, 2024 Western Sicily with Elizabeth & Sophie Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
April 7-13, 2024 Brain Health Retreat in Puglia with Annie Fenn, MD (SOLD OUT)
April 14-20, 2024 Salento & Central Puglia with Sophie Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
April 21-27, 2024 Puglia & Basilicata with Elizabeth Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
April 28-May 4, 2024 Western Sicily with Sophie Minchilli
May 5-11, 2024 Eastern Sicily with Elizabeth Minchilli
May 12-18, 2024 Salento & Central Puglia with Sophie Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
May 26-June 1, 2024 Parma with Elizabeth Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
May 27-June 1, 2024 Puglia & Basilicata with Sophie Minchilli
June 9-15, 2024 Umbria with Elizabeth & Sophie (SOLD OUT)
September 8-14, 2024 Eastern Sicily with Elizabeth Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
September 15-21, 2024 Salento & Central Puglia with Sophie Minchilli
September 15-21, 2024 Sicily with Odette Williams
September 22-28, 2024 Parma with Elizabeth Minchilli (SOLD OUT)
September 30-October 5, 2024 Puglia & Basilicata with Sophie Minchilli
October 13-19, 2024 Puglia with The Amateur Gourmet (Adam Roberts)
October 13-19, 2024 Brain Health Retreat with Dr. Annie Fenn in Eastern Sicily
October 27- November 2, 2024 Brain Health Retreat with Dr. Annie Fenn in Western Sicily
November 3-9, 2024 Puglia & Matera with Sophie Minchilli
November 9-15, 2024 Umbria with Elizabeth & Sophie Minchilli
PLEASE NOTE: Although a lot of tours are sold out (they go quickly, sorry!) I announce new tours all the time. New tours are announced first to subscribers of my Paid Newsletter. By the time they appear here on the website or in my free regular Monthly Newsletter, they are usually sold out. The best way to hear about them and join us is to sign up for the Paid Newsletter.
To find out the details and dates of our upcoming tours, visit the links above or send me an email to request a brochure.
I often do special tours with people like Elizabeth Gilbert, Melissa Clark, Jenny Rosenstrach, Dr. Annie Fenn, and Evan Kleiman. To make sure you are the first to know about my upcoming tours, sign up for the paid version of my newsletter.
And if you don’t see quite what you are looking for? We are happy to put together private weeks for your own group of friends, family, or business, from 2 to 30 people. Just send me an email.
Discovering Italy is all about traveling through the back roads and sitting down at the table with Italians. Elizabeth takes you to the beautiful hidden gems all over Italy. She guides you regarding what not to miss and what to locally eat and where to eat it.
~ LIDIA BASTIANCH, CHEF/RESTAURATEUR AND HOST OF PUBLIC TELEVISION’S LIDIA’S KITCHEN
Elizabeth Minchilli takes us into the city’s trattorias, cafes, pizzerias, and gelaterias. Each time I’ve been to Rome, I’ve turned to Elizabeth for advice and have never been steered wrong.~ DAVID LEBOVITZ, CHEF/AUTHOR