TRIPS

Be it urban or rural, there’s something wild, exuberant and utterly delicious about Basque Country, a small but mighty region that straddles the northwest border of Spain and France.

Lisbon is one of the world’s greatest food cities, and on this multi-day culinary trip you’ll experience the very best of it. Visit markets and farms, meet fishermen and bakers, learn to make Portuguese specialties, enjoy exclusive performances and eat and drink glorious delicacies, all while getting the chance to explore one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.

On this week-long seafood pilgrimage, we’ll delve deep into the world of barnacle hunters, oyster fisherman, lobster trap builders, razor clam-diggers, and net menders, along with the local chefs who are harnessing the incredible offerings of their coast, transforming Galician cuisine into something new and exciting. Though our focus will be seafood and the traditional artisans along this coast, we’ll be exploring all facets of Galician identity—history, folklore, architecture, music, language, and religion—and gaining a deeper understanding of its unbreakable bond with the sea.

Nestled between Europe’s most volatile volcano, Mount Vesuvius, and the sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean, Naples is a city of vivid beauty and intense street life with a richly layered history topped off by its world famous cuisine. Home of the pizza, the world’s oldest opera house, a street plan that dates back to the ancient Greeks and unique homegrown superstitious rituals, experiencing the city stimulates all six senses at once.

The thriving urban foodways of cosmopolitan Athens and the deeply traditional culinary life on the island of Tinos provide for a striking and delicious contrast, one that’s even better experienced during certain seasonal moments, when everything is amplified in celebration of the Eastern Mediterranean’s culinary bounty.

For millennia, Istanbul has been the connection point for a vast web of places with distinct cultural identities, landscapes, and, of course, cuisines. These disparate influences form the great mosaic that is modern-day Istanbul cuisine, which is so much more than simply “Turkish food.”

Immerse yourself on this multi-day trip in the complex cultural identity of Mexico City, where pre-Hispanic, colonial, and contemporary influences collide.

We like to think of Oaxaca as the heartland of Mexican cooking. All those things that seems so classically and elementally Mexican – corn, chiles, moles, mezcal – can be traced back to the fertile area that surrounds this historic city.

Mexico City has a complex and fascinating cultural identity, a place where pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and contemporary influences collide in a riot of street food, bustling markets, Cathedrals built atop Aztec ruins against the backdrop of a megacity thriving with regional migrants as well as a stylish modern set.

On this mouthwatering week-long culinary trip, we’ll explore the birthplace of wine: Georgia. Expect a one-of-a-kind, multi-day trip filled with wine tastings, cooking workshops, harvest activities, and more.

Seated inside the arc of the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania is a bucolic landscape of meadows, horse-drawn carts, ancient forests and alpine peaks. Culturally, it’s where Romanian, Hungarian, Saxon and Ottoman influences overlap to form today's Transylvanian cuisine.

Follow in Christopher Kimball’s footsteps during a weeklong immersion into the culinary traditions of Mexico City. This trip brings together the best of Milk Street’s and Culinary Backstreets’ networks and offers guests a one-of-a-kind introduction to a vibrant metropolis where pre- and post-colonial foods and culture collide and combine.

Rich mole, fresh fruit paletas, warm corn tortillas: these are the flavors of Oaxaca. In this weeklong trip available only to the Milk Street and Culinary Backstreets audiences, you’ll get a perspective on Oaxaca that casual tourists never get to see.

Beyond the bustle of touristy central Venice is a series of small islands dotting the Venetian lagoon. This is where Venice’s wine is made, vegetables are grown, fish is caught and bread is baked.

The freshest buffalo mozzarella. Rare Piennolo tomatoes. The world’s best pasta. These are the building blocks of the world-famous cuisine of Campania, the southern Italian region that includes Naples, Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and Mount Vesuvius.

Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy, is the land of Parmigiano Reggiano, Mortadella di Bologna, Aceto Balsamico, Prosciutto di Modena, Sangiovese, Lambrusco, Barbera and Albana wines, medieval hill towns and breathtaking scenery.

By the grace of geography, Istanbul sits astride one of the planet’s most monumental crossroads, bridging Europe and Asia and connecting diverse cultures — and their cuisines — since before the time of the Byzantines.

Considering its small size, Catalonia has had a profound impact on the food world. From this bountiful territory nestled between Spain and France have come an almost hard-to-fathom number of culinary traditions and innovations, groundbreaking chefs, and iconic dishes – both new and old – that are celebrated the world over.

Farm to table is the way of life in Portugal’s Trás-os-Montes region. The locals raise animals, smoke their own meats, cultivate large vegetable gardens, grow grapes for wine, and tend to impressive flower gardens.

We meet in the Cotswolds, a pre-Roman agricultural region famous for sheep farming, golden-stone architecture and beautiful landscapes. There we’ll immerse ourselves in regenerative wheat farming at a nonprofit farm education center and mill flour at an 8th-generation mill.

Greece off the beaten path is the theme of our trip to the Peloponnese. An experience created by Milk Street and Culinary Backstreets, this week will focus on the hyperlocal cuisine of Mani in the far south of the country.

On this 6-day Pasta Pilgrimage in Rome and Puglia, you’ll retrace the steps Dan Pashman took while researching his new cookbook, eating at many of the same places where he ate and with many of the same people – including Dan himself!