Laugh through our cooking class, learn, and taste delicious gourmet foods! This 3-day retreat includes:

• A tasting reception
• Private consultation with a personal chef
• Saturday tours of organic farms and stores
• Time to shop the great stores and boutiques of our Historic Downtowns
• A hilarious "speed" cooking class by our guest chef.
• Fabulous meals in a relaxed and elegant setting.

Join in the fun and fellowship with discussions about good food guaranteed to give you ideas and practices that can be applied to your life, to your kitchen, to your schedule and to your style.

In each retreat, you will enjoy engaging conversations about healthy foods, learn to create tasty gourmet dishes featuring local organic produce and meats, eat fabulous food, and appreciate the amenities provided by each location.

July 25-27, 2008

Mount Carroll, Ill.

Women's Culinary Weekends!

Set among rolling farmland, these lodgings offer guests a chance to slow down and appreciate the simple life.

Guest chef: Donna Duvall, Food Fancies, Personal Chef/Teacher.

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Next in Mt. Carroll:
Jan. 23-25, 2009

March 27-29, 2009

July 24-26, 2009

Lodging possibilities (two nights lodging INCLUDED with weekend):

1. Hickory Hideaway, luxury cabins
2. Simple Comforts Retreat, women's retreat center
3. Country Palmer House B&B
4. Prairie Path Guest House, B&B.

Nov. 28-30, 2008

Petoskey, Mich.
Stafford's Bay View Inn
US-31, Bay View, Michigan.

Set among a charming Victorian village of over 400 cottages in Bay View, Michigan, Stafford's Bay View Inn—a National Historic Landmark Inn—offers guests the opportunity to truly step back in time, to the casual elegance of another era.

Guest chef: Ken Willoughby, Executive Chef, U-M BioStation.

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Next in Petoskey:
May 29-31, 2009

Nov. 27-29, 2009