You may not cook like Julia Child, but you can wine and dine like her.

Select Registry's Fun For Foodies Vacations offers a vacation getaway with a mix of awarding-winning inns, picturesque settings and culinary adventures with local flair.  Food enthusiasts can share Julia Child's delight in food - not just the eating of it, but the preparing of it too - with great hands-on experiences.

Popular with food-loving couples and multigenerational groups, guests roll up their sleeves and choose from a selection of culinary outings or customizing their own.

Discover more great culinary travel stories on TripAtlas.com: Read about eating "duck in a can" in A Tasty Visit to Au Pied de Cochon in Montreal; Sit back and sip while you read Born to Brew: Canada's Top Spots for Beer; or find out where you can get the Best Doughnuts in the World.

New England inns & Select Registry offer Fun For Foodies Vacations

Artisan Cheese Maker for a Day - Make farmstead cheeses at a Vermont sheep dairy. Meet the animals, prepare a batch of cheese and package the product for market. A wheel of the cheese you helped create will be shipped to you after ripening.

Chocolatier For A Day - Master the art of chocolate making in a candy shop during a day of hand-dipping and cooking. Or, travel to the heart of the Berkshires for a private tasting with an acclaimed chocolatier, ranked by Saveur magazine among the nation's Top Ten.

Canoe Trip and Winery Tour - Take in the lush Green Mountains, while canoeing down a gentle river. Then discover the joys of winemaking at the Boyden Valley Winery, part of a fourth-generation farm producing more than a dozen award-winning, international wines.

Other Fun for Foodies Tours - Lobstering, foraging for mushroom, harvesting fruits and vegetables, baking artisan bread and pastries, and brewing beer. Guests tour local farmers' markets and wineries; pick apples and berries; tap syrup from maple trees; cook multi-course feasts; and savor the fruits of their labor. There are private sessions with renowned chefs and sommeliers, and special guest instructors, from butchers to beekeepers, coffee roasters to chocolatiers.

Now in its sixth year, this unique program of gourmet getaways by Select Registry is available at fine lodgings throughout the region: Hartstone Inn as well as Captain Lord Mansion, Kennebunkport, ME; Stone Hill Inn, Stowe, VT; Hancock Inn, Hancock, NH; Birchwood Inn, Lenox, MA; and Historic Jacob Hill Inn, Providence, RI.

To learn more, visit www.selectregistry.com/funforfoodies.

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