Tony & Lisa are Spanish Food Guides on About.com!

Fall 2006 and Ongoing - Tony & Lisa Sierra are the guides to Spanish Food on About.com, a popular web site that is part of the New York Times Co. Visit About.com's Spanish Food website to learn how to prepare many delicious dishes from Spain, including Step-by-Step recipes with photos! In addition, Lisa & Tony share their knowledge of regional Spanish cuisine in articles.
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Shallot's Cooking School Closes

June 2008 - Tony & Lisa Sierra loved to teach cooking classes at Shallot's Cooking School in Vacaville, California. Everyone had a great time tasting the food and wines. Unfortunately, Nugget Market decided to close Shallot's at the end of May. We miss it, as I'm sure many of you who live nearby do as well.
You'll find recipes that we've taught in the past posted on http://spanishfood.about.com, including seafood paella, chicken stew with white wine and mushrooms, flan and red wine sorbet to name a few. When we find a new cooking school, we'll post the class schedule here.

Tony speaks at the International Culinary Tourism Association Conference

April 2005 - Tony Sierra, President of Culinary Discoveries had the honor of speaking at the annual ICTA conference, held in San Francisco.

Culinary Discoveries in PrivateClubs magazine

June 2004 - PrivateClubs magazine, a publication of Clubcorp Inc. published an article about Culinary Discoveries and our tours in the Connoisseur section of the June 2004 issue, that is distributed to over 200,000 members of Clubcorp resorts and clubs worldwide.

Culinary Discoveries Joins the
International Culinary Tourism Association (ICTA)

May 2004 - The International Culinary Tourism Association (ICTA), based in Portland, Oregon brings together hotel, food establishments and tour operators to promote the most exciting kind of tourism yet - culinary tourism! Culinary Discoveries has joined the ICTA and will be organizing the Sacramento chapter later this year.

Culinary Tourism is a type of cultural tourism and focuses specifically on the enjoyment of prepared food and drink. Culinary Tourism promotes all unique and memorable gastronomic experiences. It does not have to be those establishments that have earned 4 stars or better. Only recently recognized, "Culinary Tourism" is an important niche that fosters economic and community development and new cultural understanding.

Because Culinary Discoveries believes that culinary or gastronomic tourism is really a cultural exchange, we wanted to make sure to belong to an association that promotes this kind of activity. The ICTA, based in Oregon is truly international and current membership includes over 400 members from 19 countries.

Another Culinary Discovery Happened April 17th!
Did you attend?

March & April 2004 - Due to the overwhelming response to our March informational meeting about the culture and cuisine of Spain, we filled the Tapa the World Cafe and scheduled a second meeting in April to accomodate everyone who was interested. The photo to the left shows Tony explaining to the audience about the various regions in Spain.

We are planning public meetings and tapas events for the fall in both the San Francisco Bay Area the Sacramento Area. Please send us an email if you would like us to let you know about upcoming events. Events will be posted on the web site as soon as they are confirmed.

Visit Tapa the World Cafe's site for a taste of Spain in Sacramento.

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Please contact us for more details about our culinary discoveries:

Culinary Discoveries
755 Cleveland St, Suite B
Woodland, CA 95695
U S A
info@culinarydiscoveries.com

www.culinarydiscoveries.com