Our tour company, Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures in Italy, in business since 1995, specializes in cooking school tours with wine & food visits, walks and many experiences with lots of fun, welcoming local people throughout Italy. We're a licenced tour operator #32155 in B.C., Canada.

You experience real local life in Italy as you meet a cast of local people: cheese makers, winery owners, olive oil producers, families, restaurant chefs, farmers, truffle hunters & more, many in places off the tourist track. It's the local people who make your tour one you'll always remember.

In most of our tours, you cook with a variety of chefs and home cooks in restaurants and homes in the same tour, so you meet lots of people & experience many kitchens in many places. You feel Italian!

We excel at custom designing tours for food & wine lovers in Italy. One New York couple on our Tuscany Brunello wine country tour recently told us, "On a scale of 1 to 10, it was a 30!"

Mama Margaret has been traveling to Italy since 1972, lived there three years, wrote a guide on Italian cooking school holidays and now goes there twice a year. She's the perfect expert to find or design the right cooking school tour in Italy for you and give you expert advice on traveling in Italy.

To serve you best, we ask you a lot of questions like what is important to you on your Italy tour and listen carefully. Truly one-on-one personal service so you get the most joy and value from your tour.

Our tour guides in Italy are very attentive, sensitive to your needs, lots of fun, passionate about sharing their culture and land with you and soon feel like friends. You travel in intimate groups of 2 to 8 people so you feel well taken care of and can sit back and enjoy, enjoy!

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