Istanbul: Shopping & Culinary Tour, Travel Articles, Wine & Food Information, Istanbul Gourmet Tour

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Istanbul: Shopping & Culinary Tour, Travel Articles, Wine & Food Information, Istanbul Gourmet Tour

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Savor the exotic splendors and luxuries of Istanbul, Turkey with foodvacation's newest tour . . . Imagine going to a city that combines the best of Rome, Naples, and San Francisco: Istanbul remains a very special place in the world for history, culture, dining, shopping, and simply enjoying the good life.

We designed this tour to share with you our wonderful experiences of the place once known as Constantinople, a World Heritage Site and cosmopolitan metropolis linking Asia with Europe.

You will stay in a small, special-class hotel in Sultanahmet, the historical pith of ancient Constantinople, where a marvelous array of historical sites, restaurants, museums, and shops lie within walking distance of one another. Yet this tour will expose you to all of Istanbul and its marvelous joie-de-vivre, inlcuding the lively modern center of Taksim and the marvelous food markets of the Asian side. As with all foodvacation tours, you will have plenty of time to relax and explore on your own each day, but always with the benefit of Abel, Perret, & Leary’s first-class guidance and introduction.

The home of Santa Sophia, the Blue Mosque, and cultural treasures from two millenium as Constantinople and Byzantium, Istanbul greats visitors with charm, sophistication, and the enjoyment of life. Istanbul greets the discerning shopper with rugs, textiles, handcrafted metalwork, furniture, jewelry, and personal apparel. This guided tour will take you directly to the finest merchants and introduce you to the finest restaurants.

foodvacation offers the best in culinary travel, vacation cooking schools, and cultural tours in locations including Costa Rica, Atlantic Canada, southern Spain, and Istanbul, Turkey. Operated by New Orleans-based Abel, Perret, & Leary, LLC, foodvacation boasts over twelve years of experience in travel and hospitality. Our programs around the world have received recommendations from Food & Wine, National Geographic Traveler, Chatelaine, Harrowsmith Country Life, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and the Dallas Morning News, among many others.

Up-to-date information on current programs can always be found at www.foodvacation.com.

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Taste Turkey with Engin Akin

Turkish cuisine is the last great frontier of Mediterranean cooking that offers a beguiling blend of the Ottoman palace kitchen's sophisticated traditions and the robust, hearty flavours of the country's nomadic past. Explore Turkish cuisine with Engin Akin at her new cooking school in the Turkish countryside. 3 day programs provide hands-on classess with the high priestess of Turkish cuisine. A cookbook author, radio & TV personality, who has received praise from Food & Wine magazine, Engin Akin is a world-renowned authority of Turkish gastronomy.

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