Real Happenings
Events & Festivals • Tours & Classes
Here at realfoodtraveler, we're always eager to learn more about authentic regional foods and cultural traditions.
We love to take culinary tours, cooking classes, and attend a culinary events. And we really enjoy all the food festivals that shine a spotlight on regional foods, traditions, art, and music.
If you know of a happening we should check out, please email us.
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Moroccan Cuisine: A feast for the senses
“Moroccans have no money, but are millionaires of time!” boomed Mustafa, our market tour guide. “We love to talk, drink tea, joke, and, most of all, eat!” He laughed heartily, slapping his over-sized belly and doubling over at his own joke. So began our cooking day experience with Souk Cuisine in Marrakech, Morocco.
Epicurean Ways: making paella with Chef Willy Moya
In a flat, shallow pan, stock, wine, garlic, Bomba rice, saffron, olive oil, red and green peppers, and shrimp, squid, and small chunks of sea bass bubble away. We are making paella, Spain’s famous rice dish.
A Taste of Spain: Passionately Delicious
With a warm smile, “our chef,” Jaume Brichs, picks us out of the teeming crowd at the main entrance of La Boqueria Market in Barcelona, Spain. He welcomes us and invites us into his exciting and exotic world of Spanish — or more accurately — Catalan cuisine.
A Question of Taste: Authentic Tapas Tours
Twenty three years ago, Welshman Roger Davies fell in love with Spain. Today, thousands of hungry travelers are glad he did.
Mudbug Madness Festival, Shreveport, Louisiana
The music booms through the speakers – fiddles squeal, an accordion whines, and guitars throb out a lively Cajun beat that has young and old, black and white, couples and singles twirling, stomping, clapping, and laughing. We’re at the annual, four-day Mudbug Madness Festival held every Memorial Day weekend in Shreveport, Louisiana.
