Edible Adventures
If your dream vacation to British Columbia includes eating your way around the province, you’re in luck. In Victoria, Travel With Taste offers culinary walking tours that begin at Silk Road Aromatherapy and Tea in Chinatown with a formal tea tasting, then move on to sample cheeses, meats, coffees, and baked goods. Tours finish with a wine tasting at the Artisan Wine Shop. Besides the culinary tour of Victoria, Travel With Taste offers additional tours in the Cowichan Valley, Saanich Peninsula, and on Salt Spring Island. At Edible British Columbia, you can sign on for a chef-guided tour of the local markets in Vancouver, along with cooking classes, gourmet kayak outings, or “chef for a day” adventures that include shopping with a local chef, designing a menu, learning about wine parings, and preparing a multi-course meal with the day’s gatherings—all under the chef’s direction. Group sizes are limited for all tours mentioned here, so be sure to book in advance. Travel With Taste, (250) 385-1527, www.travelwithtaste.com; Edible British Columbia Culinary Experiences, (604) 662-3606; www.edible-britishcolumbia.com
—D.B.
September/October 2008
