Food & Wine Culinary Arts Sailings: Holland America - Crystal Cruises - Oceania

Holland America’s Culinary Arts Programs at Sea

Culinary Arts Sailings.The Culinary Arts Center program is a groundbreaking program that integrates guests' love for fine food and wine with a unique and entertaining experience. From wine-country cuisine to the re-invented wholesome fare of early American taverns to Southern-influenced prime seafood, Holland America Line opens its on-board kitchens to over 70 guest chefs from around the country throughout its 2009 cruise season.

Holland America Line launched its innovative culinary program in 2005 with the installation of state-of-the-art Culinary Arts Centers aboard each of its 13 premium cruise ships offering culinary demonstrations, tastings and hands-on cooking classes aboard every sailing. The line then took the concept further by providing guests on select Holland America Line cruises an opportunity to experience demonstrations and seminars conducted by guest culinary experts

Holland America Line showcases its own culinary stars during each of more than 500 annual cruises where one can sample fine wines from around the world or learn to make a new gourmet dish in a hands-on cooking class taught by their own Master Chefs or Culinary Guests. Plus, with the release of the premium line's new cookbook, A Taste of Excellence, guests can learn preparation techniques for some of Holland America's most delectable dishes and lavish libations as part of the Culinary Arts Center experience.

A state-of-the-art "show kitchen at sea," the Culinary Arts Centers resemble the elaborate show kitchens used by celebrity chefs on television cooking programs. Each facility features a theater-style venue, with two large video screens to display overhead and close-up video views of food preparation, and a large cooking display counter where guests can learn from the masters. Culinary demonstrations also are filmed and aired on in-stateroom televisions. Holland America Line invested more than $13 million to create and install the Culinary Arts Center facilities on each of its ships as part of a $225 million Signature of Excellence initiative.

Culinary Arts Sailings.The Culinary Arts Center also features: 

  • An innovative theatre-style venue with a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen
  • Multiple large plasma video screens so you don't miss the fine details (or you can watch the broadcast from the comfort of your own stateroom)
  • Cooking demonstrations and hands-on cooking classes by our own award-winning chefs and their culinary staff
  • Wine and cheese experts hosting special wine tastings and food pairing seminars
  • Special guest chefs, wine experts and leading cookbook author

Culinary Demonstrations: One-hour complimentary culinary demonstrations are scheduled on all cruises. On-board chefs lead a variety of events. Demos take place a minimum of two times on a seven day cruise. Longer voyages add additional demos.

Culinary Cooking Classes: Private cooking classes with the ship’s chef are offered at a minimal charge of $29 per person. Maximum of 12 people per class. A minimum of two classes will be offered on a 7-day cruise. More on longer sailings. More sessions will be added as demand dictates.

Holland America Exclusive Guest Chef/Culinary Arts Experts Series


About Holland America Line

For the ninth year in a row, Holland America Line has been voted "best overall cruise value" by the World Ocean and Cruise Liner Society, the experienced travelers who know cruising best. Service, ambience, cuisine, personal attention - only Holland America offers you such consistent quality and more "five-star" ships than any other major cruise line.

Spacious and Intimate floating resorts. Holland America ships are fabulous destinations in themselves, offering everything you would expect in a great resort on land, and more.

Delicious Adventures. Master chef, world-renowned Reiner Greubel, a member of the prestigious society Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs, leads the award-winning culinary staff in the creation of exciting new dining options. Lovingly prepared, exquisitely presented.

Activities from Dawn to Dusk. Life on board your Holland America ship is always exciting, because there's always something happening. Join in a myriad of planned activities, or enjoy quiet time in superb surroundings.

Worldwide Cruising. Holland America Line offers a five-star resort in 253 ports and scenic cruising areas throughout the world: Alaska, Canada, Caribbean, Europe, Hawaii, Panama Canal, Orient, South America, South Pacific, World Voyages.

Holland America Five-Star Cruise Specials

SevenSeas Featured Wine and Food Festival Voyage on Crystal Cruises
Crystal Cruises - Wine and Food Festival.
Crystal Cruises' A Taste Of The MED- 12-Day Sailing on the Crystal Symphony

Enjoy cooking demonstrations by our celebrity guest chefs, specially prepared four-course dinners featuring the chef's unique dishes, and complimentary wine tastings led by our master sommeliers and guest wine experts.June 7, 2009 - Rome To London (Voyage 9213)

View more Crystal Cruises Wine & Food Festival sailings

Crystal Cruises - Wine and Food Festival.About Crystal Cruises
Imagine that a floating luxury resort, filled with everything you ever could desire, is waiting to carry you on the journey of your dreams. Crystal Cruises takes pride in navigating that magical highway of the sea, transporting you to the best the world has to offer.

Your days and nights on a Crystal cruise are effortless and carefree. You will revel in a wealth of time, a luxurious sense of leisure and ease; your hours are your own, to spend as you see fit. Released from the pressure of schedules and routines, you are free to play, to rest, to mingle and relax - to allow for the luxury of serendipity. Like the open sea, each day is limitless. You can chart a course, then change it at your whim. Let possibility fill the sails of your imagination and see what magic might appear.

Crystal Cruises gives you space to stretch out and explore. They have broad, sunny decks to stroll and inviting corners to settle into. There are cozy nooks where you can be alone. You can join a spellbound audience at an exciting Broadway-style show or get together with a few new friends over a frothy cappuccino. Your stateroom is a comforting place to call your own, where you can snuggle in and dream.

With skilled and practiced sleight-of-hand, their chefs prepare the finest cuisine from around the world. Their guests may begin a cruise alone, but within days they find themselves greeting new-found friends. There is a spirit of cheerfulness and good humor to be found wherever you are on the ship. Guests say that is the real magic of a Crystal cruise. There is no mystery to it; its simply their commitment to heartfelt service that lets them create an atmosphere of enchantment, every day.

Crystal Cruises - Wine and Food Festival.
Crystal Cruises - Wine and Food Festival.
Crystal Cruises - Wine and Food Festival.

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1-800-951-5581 for reservations.

Epicurean Immersions. Oceania Launches "Epicurean Immersions" in Europe.
Oceania Cruises launched a series of specialty food and wine-focused shore excursions called Epicurean Immersions. Produced in conjunction with culinary experts at Food & Wine Trails of Sonoma, Calif., these tours offer in-depth looks at local food and wine legacies.

Each tour showcases culinary treats at estates, centuries-old wineries and traditional restaurants; many are not open to the general public or only known by the most seasoned of travelers. Many of the tours include meals at wineries or private homes.

Culinary tours are offered in Italy, Greece and the south of France in virtually all 2009 western Mediterranean voyages. A variety of half- and full-day tours are available in Venice, Florence, La Spezia, and Sorrento, Italy; Corfu and Santorini, Greece; and Provence, France. Participation is typically limited to 25 or 30 guests.   Each tour is led by wine experts, cookbook authors, and food and wine academe such as Judy Francini, Pamela Sheldon, Judy Witts, and Padraig Fournier. Call SevenSeas Travel today for more details about these exclusive food and wine shore excursion offerings from Oceania Cruises.

About Oceania Cruises
In each and every destination we call upon, our goal is to provide you with the most rewarding, enriching destination experience possible.
Oceania Cruises is the world’s only upper-premium cruise line and offers a unique combination of the finest cuisine at sea, luxurious accommodations, exceptional personalized service and extraordinary value.

As the leader in destination cruising, Oceania Cruises sails to more than 180 ports in Europe, China and the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Featuring three intimate and elegant mid-sized ships, Regatta, Insignia and Nautica, the line will introduce two new mid-size Oceania-Class ships to its award-winning fleet in 2010 and 2011. For the fourth year in a row, in a testament to the exceptional quality and outstanding value that Oceania Cruises provides its guests, the savvy and sophisticated readers of Travel + Leisure Magazine and Condé Nast Traveler have ranked Oceania Cruises as one of the world’s finest cruise lines.

Oceania - The Finest Cuisine at Sea -
You will enjoy the flexibility of four open seating restaurants; you dine when, where and with whom you choose. Our 5 Star menus are crafted under the meticulously watchful eye of renowned master chef Jacques Pépin, our Executive Culinary Director. Host of numerous public television series, he is one of America's best known chefs, food columnists and cook book authors. He has also served as the personal chef to no less than three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle.

Oceania cruises.

Food & Wine Culinary Arts Sailings: Holland America - Crystal Cruises - Oceania

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