For many people, food is the things that very interested. Many people who have dream to around the world and try some local food. Culinary tourism or food tourism is considered a rather new branch in the tourism tree. Experiencing the food of the country, region or area, is now considered a vital complement of the whole tourism experience. Food tourism seems to be the new fad among popular destinations, since becoming familiar with the food culture is essential for grasping the country’s or region’s feeling. Dining out is common among tourist, which will complement the whole tourist travel experience.
Culinary tourism is one travel experiences that aimed to pursuit of unique and memorable eating and drinking experiences, and very considered of cultural. Culinary tourism is not limited to gourmet food. This is perhaps best illustrated by the notion that culinary tourism is about unique and memorable foods, not only for necessarily pretentious serve and exclusive foods. But wine tourism, beer tourism and spa tourism are also regarded of culinary tourism.
The people reason to holded culiner tourism is not only for taste the various of food but also for someone who have occupation that have connected with food like chef, they also often to go one destination and taste the special food in there. In the other occupation like writter or journalism especially have to give information about food, the best way to know that is with culinary tourism.
Most of us think that food is one of part of tour. So, between food or dish and tour is have close relationship. Its not always absolutely but average of people when go to one destination, after see the viewer and situation in there, the first thing they want to try is the locals food. Because the culinary of one destination is make different from the other. To taste local foods, is not only with expensive cost, we can also get many foods especially snack with cheap value, because sometime we find difficulty to mix and match our budget with our fare when tour.
For find the best place to culinary is to browse in internet and find the best place with great view. We also can get information in magazine especially in tour magazine or food magazine, not only from that now in many television programme like "wisata kuliner" in trans tv or "bon a petit" in metro tv. A culinary tourers mania can also join in a culinary tourism in a lot of part of the world like in US, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and also Indonesia, i think it's will be exciting and interesting to talk about one destination and also talk about their food.
In Indonesia, if we talk about the unique food or special food, it will talk a lot of many regions with they foods because each regions in Indonesia have one even more local foods. Like empe-empe from West Sumatera, Gudeg from Jogjakarta, Batagor from West Java, Pecel from East Java and surely Pallubasa and Coto Makassar from South Sulawesi. Not only for for food, Indonesia also have various branch of drink and surely unique such as limau tea, tempuyau ice, kolang kaling, parut ice, sarabba and etc.
To prepare your self to culinary tourism are:
1. Prepare sufficient funds.
2. Find a good spot, which is quite cheap and affordable.
3. If you want to get the best places,take a diligent browsing on the Internet.
4. Many ask questions and read articles about culinary tourism.
Rabu, Juni 16, 2010
