Trips
3 Day Build Your Self Confidence Culinary Retreat in California, USA
Available all year round
from US$ 3,256
from US$ 1,280
3 Day Well-Being Rediscovered in Carmel-By-The-Sea, USA
Available all year round
from US$ 2,900
About Savoury Destinations
Savoury Destinations joins world travelers who are passionate about gathering knowledge of food cultures. They live by love for the land and its ingredients.
Instructors
Valerie Kazansky
Chef Valerie fell in love with cooking as a child, when she started helping her mother in the kitchen. She earned her teaching credentials from UC Davis and received her culinary degree from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. In 1980, Valerie moved to the Monterey Peninsula and taught cooking classes at The Peppercorn in Carmel, at Monterey Peninsula College, and nutrition at Hartnell College. Teaching quickly expanded to catering and offering private cooking classes. Chef Valerie's passion for both cooking and teaching will become obvious when she welcomes you into her beautiful kitchen.
Bill Jones
Bill Jones is a chef and author based on Deerholme Farm in the Cowichan Valley. He is a French-trained chef, author of 12 cookbooks, winner of 3 world cookbook awards and busy journalist, food consultant, and community builder. Bill’s latest book is the Deerholme Vegetable Cookbook (Touchwood Editions, 2015) following up the successful Deerholme Foraging Book and the Deerholme Mushroom Book (Touchwood Editions, 2014, 2013). He is an acknowledged local expert on wild foods and foraging with a passion for wild mushrooms and a keen respect of local first nations ethnobotany and culture.