Sunday, September 6, 2015

Florida's Food Heritage and Culture flourished on Culinary Tour to Delray Beach, Boynton Beach


A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

More than five historic districts were traveled peppered with Florida's Spanish and Caribbean history, cultural cuisines, local art and historic buildings.
This summer tour was hosted food tastings at Sweet's Jamaican Café, Café Bleu, Cabana El Rey, Le Macaron French Pastries Shop and Palermo's Bakery. More than 20 cuisines were tasted. The art gallery featured was the Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach and the historic building toured was the 1926 Colony Hotel.

Check out the photo log below.

Click here to read review of this tour by USA Today 10 Best
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Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café.  A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Sweet's Jamaican Café on Historic 5th Avenue in Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Café Bleu. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Café Bleu.  A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Café Bleu. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Café Bleu. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Café Bleu. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Mural art at Café Bleu. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Café Bleu. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey.  A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Longtime volunteer Dolores Silver at Cabana El Rey. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana Rel Rey in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Cabana El Rey in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Culinary team at Cabana El Rey in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Boca Artists Guild Gallery in Downtown Delray Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Le Macaron French Pastries Shop. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Le Macaron French Pastries Shop. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Le Macaron French Pastries Shop. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Le Macaron French Pastries Shop. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Le Macaron French Pastries Shop. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.



1926 historic Colony Hotel. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.



A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Palermo's Bakery in Boynton Beach offers hundreds of pastries. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Palermo's Bakery in Boynton  Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Palermo's Bakery makes hundreds of desserts and Italian meals. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

Palermo's Bakery in Boynton Beach offers hundreds of desserts and Italian meals. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.



Palermo's Bakery in Boynton Beach. A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.

A summertime Taste History Culinary Tour traveled to Delray Beach and Boynton Beach connecting Florida's art, culture, heritage and food.
  
Click here to view more photos on Facebook. This tour took place on July 25, 2015.

The non-profit Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County, Florida has been designated one of the official community event partners for the State of Florida’s Viva Florida initiative.  

The tour program includes bus riding and 4 to 6 blocks of walking. The mission of the tour includes incorporating education about food culture and food history with the food tastings thus dietary restrictions cannot be accommodated.
Taste History is sponsored, in part, by Macy’s. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Additional support for Taste History has been received from Kingston Fresh, Carl and Iris Apfel; and bequests from the late Patricia Ann Ravo and the late Boris & Edith Rueger.

Effective February 1, 2015, $45 per person is the new rate for the tours traveling to Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Lake Worth and Lantana. The new rate for the West Palm Beach/Northwood Village tour is $50 per person. Free for children under age 14 (children must be accompanied by a paid adult family member). Children age 14 and over pay regular price. Due to the increase in fees that are charged to our organization for the tour bus rental and insurance; an increase in our tour fees is necessary. Pre-paid reservations that have been made prior to that date will not be affected. Taste History is a non-profit educational organization. Fees are inclusive of all food and visits to cultural centers and art galleries. 

For more information, call 561-243-2662 or 561-638-8277. Email tour@tastehistoryculinarytours.org 

Brief Facts about Taste History:
  • Offered year-round
  • Held on the first, second, third and fourth Saturdays at 11am
  • At least 3 to 4 locally owned and family owned eateries are visited for food tasting. Some cuisines may be culturally-specific.  The food portions are hearty.
  • Cultural centers or emerging art galleries are visited
  • Tour travels through historic neighborhoods, districts, main streets and off the beaten path.
  • Bus riding and 4 to 6 blocks of walking
  • Some eating experiences are standing-only. 
  • Tour is at least 3 to 4 hours
  • Food and Florida history are narrated by a guide
  • To maintain an element of surprise, each tour is different and never an exact duplication of any previous tour hosted. 
  • Private group tours are also available during the weekday
  • Pre-payment is required. Fees are inclusive
  • Tour takes place Rain or Shine.
  • Dietary Restrictions Cannot be Accommodated. Click here to read about types of foods served on the tour.  
  • Taste History is a food tasting tour, with art and history combined, and although there is some sitting it's not a sit-down luncheon but many of the food portions are hearty and most people are full by the end of the tour.
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2015 Dates Taste History Culinary Tours

Saturday, January 3, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana-Special New Year’s Weekend Tour

Saturday, January 10, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, January 17, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach (January 17, 2015 is sold-out)

Saturday, January 24, 2015  Delray beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, January 31, 2015 Lake Worth/Lantana (extra date added)


Saturday, February 7, 2015  Northwood Village/West Palm Beach (February 7, 2015 is sold-out)

Saturday, February 14, 2015 Lake Worth/Lantana (February 14th is Valentine’s Day Tour)

Saturday, February 21, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, March 7, 2015  Northwood Village/West Palm Beach (March 7, 2015 is sold-out)

Saturday, March 14, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana (March 14, 2015 is sold-out)

Saturday, March 21, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, March 28, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, April 11, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, April 18, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach (April 18th is Sold-out)

Saturday, April 25, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, May 2, 2015  Northwood Village/West Palm Beach (May 2nd is Sold-Out)

Saturday, May 9, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, May 16, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, May 23, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, June 6, 2015  Lake Worth/Northwood Village/West Palm Beach/Lake Worth

Saturday, June 13, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, June 20, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach (Father's Day Weekend Tour) (June 20th is Sold-Out)

Saturday, June 27, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, July 11, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, July 18, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, July 25, 2015   Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, August 1, 2015  Lake Worth/Northwood Village/West Palm Beach

Saturday, August 8, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, August 15, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, September 26, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, October 3, 2015  Lake Worth/Northwood Village/West Palm Beach

Saturday, October 10, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, October 17, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, October 24, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, November 7, 2015  Lake  Worth/Northwood Village/West Palm Beach (November 7th is Sold-Out)

Saturday, November 21, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, November 28, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach


Saturday, December 5, 2015  Lake Worth/Northwood Village/West Palm Beach

Saturday, December 12, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana

Saturday, December 19, 2015  Delray Beach/Boynton Beach

Saturday, December 26, 2015  Lake Worth/Lantana
  


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Taste History is an official Community Event Partner for the State of Florida's Viva Florida initiative to celebrate its history and culture:


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