New culinary tours from Butterfield & Robinson promise to have you asking for second helpings. In southern Sicily, indulge in fresh seafood, hand-rolled pastas and more, accompanied, naturally, by Sicilian wines. The seven-day, six-night itinerary includes the towns of Siracusa, Noto and Modica. Choose Provence, and savor fine wines from the Cote du Rhone, take part in a hands-on culinary class and learn all about the use of local herbs in the Alpilles (six days, five nights).

Spice up your travel with the seven-day, six-night Magical Morocco tour. Choose fresh ingredients at a chef’s private farm garden, learn to cook traditional couscous, pastilla and tangines, and have lunch and a tasting while visiting the vineyard at Val d’Argan. Stay closer to home with the four day, three-night New Orleans Life on the Mississippi intensive. It’s cocktails, of course, followed by biscuit sampling, swamp spices, a fish dinner at Chef Donald Link’s award-winning Peche and an insider’s tutorial on southern fried chicken at Willie Mae’s Scotch House. Did we mention the Big Easy beignets?