An Experience to Savor

The Culinary Arts Center program, presented by Food & Wine magazine, is a groundbreaking program that integrates guests' love for fine food and wine with a unique and entertaining experience. Immerse yourself in the unique traditions and tastes of the ports of call you will visit. Sample fine wines from around the world or learn to make a new gourmet dish in a hands-on cooking class taught by our own Master Chefs or Culinary Guests.

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 master chefs and their culinary staff
• Wine tasting representatives of the visited ports of call
• Special guest chefs, wine experts and leading cookbook authors who appear in the pages of Food & Wine magazine
• Book signings, Q&A sessions, market tours in selected ports of call

DEMONSTRATIONS AND SEMINARS FROM TOP CHEFS
The Culinary Arts Center, presented by Food & Wine magazine, provides guests on select Holland America cruises the opportunity to experience demonstrations and hands-on classes conducted by top chefs, wine experts, and leading cookbook authors from the pages of Food & Wine. Onboard all sailings, you will learn tricks-of-the-trade from top professionals, try your hand at preparing dishes and taste wines representative of the specific ports-of-call you will visit. Food & Wine provides recipe cards and wine tasting notes that you may take home along with copies of the magazine. Other opportunities might include book signings, question and answer sessions, market tours in ports of call and more. Previous guest chefs include:
 

• Jacques Torres - chocolatier extraordinaire.
• Max McCalman - Maître Fromager, Artisanal Premium Cheese.
• Cat Cora - Food Network "Iron Chef," cookbook author.
• Susan Sokol Blosser - president and wine visionary, Sokol Blosser Winery, Dundee, OR.