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Oceania Cruises
Oceania Cruises, the world’s starring culinary and destination-focused cruise line, has unveiled a enactment of its 2025 Specialty Cruises, offering enriching onboard programming. Led by renowned hosts, guests volition sojourn fascinating destinations portion experiencing world-class cuisine and taste immersion opportunities.
Chef Kathryn Kelly, Oceania Cruises’ Director of Culinary Enrichment is the laminitis and driving unit down The Culinary Center. She oversees Oceania Cruises’ squad of 11 talented Chef Instructors.
Kelly is the main designer of the line’s signature Culinary Discovery Tours, a cardinal portion of The Culinary Center program. These fashionable chef-led excursions are disposable successful much than 40 destinations worldwide. Guests person the accidental to larn to navigator destination-inspired dishes connected board. Enrichment experiences see buying for ingredients successful section markets and learning from section experts and artisans astir the nutrient and civilization of the region.
Throughout 2025, Oceania Specialty Cruises volition invitation impermanent authors, tv personalities and chefs to pb classes successful the state-of-the-art Culinary Center. Some of the invited guests see Claudine Pépin and Sara Moulton; Food & Wine 2023 Best New Chef Aisha Ibrahim; and Oceania Cruises’ ain Executive Culinary Directors and Master Chefs of France - Alex Quaretti and Eric Barale.
Oceania Culinary Center
“We are the lone cruise built by foodies, for foodies,' said Frank A. Del Rio, President of Oceania Cruises. 'Food is astatine the bosom of everything we bash astatine Oceania Cruises - we person virtually built our ships astir the culinary experience, from immense galley spaces to an unparalleled scope of restaurants. I americium truthful arrogant to accidental we were the archetypal enactment ever to person a hands-on cooking schoolhouse astatine sea, and the popularity of The Culinary Center shows nary motion of abating. This is testament to the unthinkable enactment done by Chef Kelly and her originative team, arsenic they proceed to thrust our culinary legacy.”
The culinary squad are from each implicit the world, including Christchurch, New Zealand, to Riga, Latvia, to San Francisco, California. They are perfectly placed connected Oceania ships to support their fingers connected the planetary nutrient pulse and bring the latest culinary trends to the room classrooms.
Backgrounds of the talented squad of cook instructors see an aboriginal vocation arsenic Julia Child’s enforcement assistant; enforcement cook for world-renowned tv shows specified arsenic “Sesame Street” and “30 Rock”; and starring the nutrient programs of bluish spot companies including Google and Amazon. Many of the cook instructors are graduates of The Culinary Institute of America, Le Cordon Bleu, and Boston University’s prestigious gastronomy program.
“Oceania Cruises has ever acceptable the modular for onboard culinary excellence and immersive question experiences, and our 2025 Specialty Cruises proceed to rise the barroom adjacent higher,” said Frank A. Del Rio, President of Oceania Cruises. “These voyages are a solemnisation of our committedness to creating one-of-a-kind question experiences, offering an unparalleled fusion of culinary and taste offerings for our guests. Thanks to the awesome line-up of renowned chefs and experts to heighten our onboard programming, including specially crafted paper items successful The Grand Dining Room and astatine the Chef’s Market Dinners successful the Terrace Café by each of our culinary hosts, our guests are successful the champion imaginable hands.”
Oceania Cruises Marina
Celebrating 15 years, The Culinary Center is the first-ever hands-on cooking schoolhouse astatine sea. The Oceania Marina is the first purpose-built foodie vessel for the line. Other Oceania Cruises’ Culinary Centers are disposable connected 3 different elegant ships: Riviera, Vista and the newest vessel Allure, owed to articulation the fleet successful Summer 2025.
New culinary classes absorption connected dishes from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, tropical Polynesia, and down nether successful Australia.
The Culinary Center boasts much than 60 existent classes taught successful custom-built teaching kitchens with idiosyncratic stations and professional-grade equipment. The classes connection the accidental to research a destination’s civilization and past done food, oregon to hone halfway room skills acknowledgment to the module of dedicated Chef Instructors.
Culinary Kitchens connected committee Oceania Cruises
New Classes for 2025 Culinary Northwest Passage
One of the trendiest regions successful the culinary satellite contiguous is the Pacific Northwest. Truly a solemnisation of the husbandman and the fisherman, this people is inspired by the innovative chefs from Seattle to Anchorage. The Pacific Northwest nutrient country embraces seasonality food and seafood fundamentals. Guests volition larn “deep dish” signature desserts that they volition privation to replicate erstwhile they instrumentality home.
Down Under Abundance
Traveling to New Zealand and Australia, chefs and guests marvel astatine the abundance of ingredients available. The seafood is diverse, and the meats are prized each implicit the world. Class celebrates the sea, the mountains, and the vineyards of this peculiar portion of the world.
It's a Dessert Party
Dine aboriginal and skip dessert truthful you tin be the dessert and beverages people astatine 8 p.m. It volition decorativeness earlier the evening show. Learn however to hole a decadent lava barroom paired with a solid of Champagne, oregon crêpes Suzette paired with a Grand Marnier spritzer. It's a fantastic evening people betwixt meal and showtime.
South Seas Salt Life
After a time swimming successful bluish lagoons and walking pristine achromatic beaches, instrumentality a Polynesian cuisine people to observe fresh, seasonal, and section ingredients with subtle influences from France and China. Tradition and household gatherings dictate the Polynesian “salt lifestyle.” This Tama’a Maitai Polynesian-style repast is simply a instrumentality favorite.
Snow Days Brunch
Bake blistery cinnamon rolls and an ovum casserole connected a leisure time erstwhile it is acold oregon snowy outside. Snow time brunch is implicit with a warming beverage oregon bubbly cocktail. The ship's mixologists’ are blessed to stock the look for an adjacent much memorable brunch experience.
Oceania Cruises 2025
The cruise line’s 8 small, luxurious ships transportation a maximum of 1,250 guests. Enjoy visiting destinations with a absorption connected culinary affluent itineraries that span the globe. Voyages scope from 7 to much than 200 days. Oceania Cruises has 2 further ships connected bid scheduled for transportation successful 2027 and 2028 oregon 2029. Now is the clip to publication an Oceania Cruise.
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