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.

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

Recipes used in the 2 Busy 2 Cook retreats are published in the Herbs, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Winter Squash, Eggplant, and Beef FoodBooks. See our FoodBooks pages for more information.

Petoskey, Mich.

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

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Itinerary

Our suggestions for lodging:

1. Stafford's Bay View Inn, historic Registry inn
2. Terrace Inn, Bay View, arts & crafts treasure
3. Holiday Inn Express, Petoskey, with limousine

Starved Rock,

Central Ill.

NEW! Summer 2011

This weekend is available for groups of six or more any weekend EXCEPT Bergoo weekend (fall).

Our suggestions for Lodging: go to Heritage Corridor CVB, look under Starved Rock tab.

This weekend focuses on the unique heritage - geological and economic - of the Starved Rock area and Heritage Canal. There is hiking in Matthiessen and Starved Rock State Parks (in fall, canoeing and cycling also). Meet Kirsten and Mark at LaPryor Hog Farm, Tracy and the crew at Growing Home, and more. Whether sampling Bergoo Stew in Utica or Canal Diggers Soup in LaSalle, enjoying organic grains from the health food store, or wandering a farm market in Oglesby - the Starved Rock area has much to offer!

Mt. Carroll/Galena,

Northwest Ill.

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

Patricia Lehnhardt, Great Galena Cookery

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Itinerary

Our suggestions for lodging:

1. Hickory Hideaway, luxury cabins.
2. Country Palmer House B&B
3. Prairie Path Guest House B&B.

Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

We cook in Yvonne's new kitchen in the gorgeous village of Ste. Genevieve. We tour the food treasures of southeast Missouri, where German people live in French houses along the Mighty Mississippi.