Si Italy Tours - gourmet holidays
Si Italy tours offer tailor-made gourmet food and wine tours in Italy. Enjoy your very own Si Italy tour of the senses among the sounds, sights, tastes and aromas of your chosen corners of Italy. We are committed members of Slow Food Italy and proud supporters of its principles.
While emphasis on local cuisine and food traditions are an intrinsic part of all Si Italy tours, appassionati of fine food and wine may choose an itinerary where it is the major focus and there are more opportunities for cooking classes and wine tasting.
Indulge your senses! Dine in Slow Food listed restaurants, gain hands-on experience of Italian regional foods and wines, spend a day in a restaurant kitchen, learn to make pici in Tuscany, tortellini in Bologna, canederli in the Dolomites, visit boutique and family wineries, olive oil and wine museums. Learn the secrets of local cuisine while experiencing daily life, people and culture. Stroll to mountain rifugi and sample speck, polenta, alpine cheeses, strudel and fortaie. Wander along the back roads through villages, markets, olive groves and herb gardens. Travel the wine roads of Italy, dine on local delicacies in characteristic osterie, enoteche, restaurants and trattorie.
The international Slow Food Movement, formed in 1989, operates throughout the world with over 60,000 members organised into Slow Food Convivia (or branches).
The Slow Food objectives are:
- to uphold the dignity and pleasure of food, wine and conviviality
- to safeguard the variety and diversity of regional cuisine, typical animal and vegetable products
- to instigate a program of education for taste which encourages adults and children to develop a good relationship with food
- to inform consumers
- to encourage a tourism which is aware and respectful of the environment
- to promote solidarity in the food industry
- to have fun with food and people and spread the slow philosophy.