OPEN KITCHEN TRAVEL IRELAND Chef-Guided Community tRavel September 19-27, 2017 Join us for nine days of chef-guided, food-focused travel in Ireland. Experience a lesser-known side of the emerald isle as we explore the rich culinary traditions of Ireland. Chef Brian O’Malley, Executive Director at the Institute for the Culinary Arts, will guide you beyond the plate into the kitchen where you’ll meet cheesemakers, chefs and teachers; on tours where you’ll discover brewing, distilling and tasting; into the wild where you’ll experience sea salt production, salmon fishing, and mussel harvesting. COOK 208N 70 - Travel: Ireland COSTS: $1749 + Airfare $2749 Estimated Total $500 due upon registration Package IncludeS: Chef Guide, Irish Guide, private transportation, exciting culinary tours, spectacular hotels, local food experts, hands-on cooking, and 13 meals. TO REGISTER: mccneb.edu/ce or call 531-MCC-5231 MORE INFO: [email protected] Nondiscrimination and Equality Statement—Metropolitan Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, age, disability, or sexual orientation in admission or access to its programs and activities or its treatment or hiring of employees. Day ONE Day SEVEN Depart Omaha for a distinctively culinary experience Enjoy breakfast with your group before heading south, in Ireland. Meet your group at Eppley Airfield with a continuing your taste of Ireland! This morning, tour late afternoon flight. After a short layover, board your Rathbaun Farm while bottle feeding the baby lambs overnight flight into Dublin. and viewing a sheep dog demonstration! Next, learn to make Irish scones and finish the visit with a farmhouse Day TWO lunch! After a short drive to Cork, you will visit the world Arriving in the capitol city of Ireland, meet your private famous Ballymaloe Cookery School! Arrive to a cup motor coach and Irish guide! Not wasting any time, see of tea or coffee, then tour the gardens and farm! View Dublin on a best-of-the best tour including sights such as a demonstration of a full-three course meal in their St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity College, and the Guinness demonstration kitchen, then into the kitchens to cook some Storehouse! Check into your hotel and freshen up before of the items the teachers demonstrated! Finish your visit your first taste of true Irish cuisine. Meet the chef of to Ballymaloe with a sit-down supper featuring all of the Chapter One, discover his style and view his kitchen! A delicious traditional Irish cuisine you have cooked up! After visit wouldn’t be complete without a fantastic Irish dinner! a full day, rest up in your beautiful hotel in Cork. (B, D) (D) Day EIGHT Day THREE Today begins with a hodgepodge of Ireland “must do’s”. This morning grab a bite to eat for breakfast, then head Perhaps you’ll visit the Blarney Castle to kiss the Blarney west to Tullamore! Here, visit Tullamore Dew, for a fantastic stone for good luck, or you’ll want to visit the Jameson tour and tasting of their famous triple-distilled Irish Experience, the original Jameson Whiskey distillery in whiskey. Your afternoon stop is a tour of Marty’s Mussels! Midleton! Meet the rest of the group back at the hotel View the farm and meet the family that owns the mussel before heading off to enjoy your farewell dinner at the farm! Tonight, you are in for a real treat—Delphi Lodge! Set award winning Market Lane! Meet the Chef and learn how on 1000 acres of spectacular scenery, this 1830s country they use ingredients from The English Market and local house and fishing lodge is known for its amazing food, artisan producers to make their menu! (B, D) made from local seafood, game and produce. (B) Day NINE Day FOUR Your Ireland tour heads back to Dublin this morning with This day begins with pick up by powerboat at Delphi Pier thought and memories of all the amazing food you tasted and visiting mussel and oyster farms along the fjord with and people you’ve met. Saying goodbye to your local guides explaining and demonstrating what is involved, and guide, arrive at the terminal to get checked in and off to sampling fresh oysters with a glass of Guinness or white Omaha! (B) wine. Then follow a scenic walk to a traditional farm to watch a demonstration of sheep shearing, working sheep Chef Brian O’Malley dogs and turf cutting. On returning to the boat, travel along the fjord to a scenic spot to enjoy a special Delphi grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, immersing himself in the picnic lunch before returning to Delphi pier. Spend some culinary industry from a time relaxing before a special group meal, featuring Chef young age. By the time he Brian! (B, L, D) graduated with Distinction from the prestigious New Day FIVE England Culinary Institute Enjoy breakfast and one last stroll around the grounds in Vermont, O’Malley knew before heading off to Achill Island Sea Salt! Meet the he wanted to spend his owners and hear their fantastic story as they explain how professional life cultivating sea salt has become such a popular and tasty alternative meaningful culinary experiences for others. He to table salt! Heading south, take an extended lunch in gets to do that often as Westport! Cheerful, multi-coloured shop fronts jostle for the Executive Director and attention with an attractive selection of shops, pubs, cafés impassioned chef-instructor and restaurants. Your final destination tonight is Galway, a at the Institute for the vibrant city with a rich culinary tradition! (B) Culinary Arts at Metropolitan Community College. After Day SIX cooking professionally Another beautiful day awaits you as you wake with a in Greece, travelling solo splendid breakfast and ferry over to the Aran Islands! The through Europe and visiting Ireland with his family, he rugged Aran Islands lie just outside Galway Bay. You’ll find was inspired to find a way to ancient forts, chuches and monuments! Plus, visit Aran share Ireland’s rich culinary Islands Goat Cheese! Here you will learn their original culture with others. He is cheese making process, enhanced with a tour and of beyond excited to join you on course, a taste of their cheese! Tonight, experience Ireland this once-in-a-lifetime trip to during the late medieval times! Bunratty Castle is the discover and share the food- original structure from the 15th century! (B, D) centered experiences awaiting in Ireland..