Culinary Cruises With Exciting Chefs – Chris Cru...

Holland America Line is mixing world-class journey and distinctive culinary experiences  with new “Culinary Ambassador” cruises in 2025 and 2026.     These particular sailings on segments of Grand Voyages and different choose cruises will characteristic unique experiences hosted by one in all Holland America Line’s Culinary Ambassadors — a set of world-renowned cooks, beverage specialists and culinary visionaries who enrich the onboard eating and beverage choices fleetwide by way of signature dishes and cocktail recipes.

Cruises that includes a Culinary Ambassador will supply thrilling actions the place the specialists share their information, methods and suggestions. For the chef ambassadors, visitors can attend a reside cooking demonstration led by the chef, be a part of a espresso chat to study extra about them, and dine at an intimate reservation-only dinner with a curated menu hosted by the chef. The beverage specialists will supply tastings, particular occasions and host a pairing dinner in a specialty restaurant.  

“Eating has turn out to be a necessary a part of how individuals discover the world, and our Culinary Ambassador program permits us to supply one thing actually particular — an expertise that goes past the plate,” stated Michael Stendebach, vice chairman of meals, beverage and rooms division for Holland America Line. “By the Culinary Ambassador cruises, we are able to deliver a few of the world’s most celebrated specialists on board to raise the journey. It’s not nearly consuming properly for our visitors — it’s about studying, tasting one thing new, having enjoyable and maybe getting some suggestions to make use of in their very own kitchens.”

Holland America Line Culinary Ambassador cooks embrace David Burke, Masaharu Morimoto, Ethan Stowell and Jacques Torres. Culinary Ambassador beverage specialists, who created regionally impressed cocktails for the cruise line’s bars and menus, embrace Sam Ross (Alaska), Ivy Combine (Mexico), Tess Posthumus (Northern Europe), and David Wondrich and Jeff Berry (Caribbean). Grasp Tea Blender Steve Schwartz additionally will be a part of a Culinary Ambassador cruise in Asia.

2025 and 2026 Culinary Ambassador Cruises:

• Zuiderdam, Voyage of the Vikings, Chef Burke might be on board a section of the cruise Aug. 7-12, 2025, from Dublin, Eire, to Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Nieuw Amsterdam, 7-Day Baja Peninsula, Bartender Ivy Combine might be on board Nov. 15-22, 2025, crusing roundtrip from San Diego.
• Volendam, 2026 Grand World Voyage, Grasp Tea Blender Schwartz might be on board March 25-30, 2026, from Singapore to Halong Bay (Hanoi), Vietnam.
• Volendam, 2026 Grand World Voyage, Chef Morimoto might be on board whereas the ship is in Japan, dates to be introduced.
• Volendam, 2026 Grand World Voyage, Chef Stowell might be on board April 29 – Could 3, 2026, from Seattle, Washington, to San Diego, California.

About Holland America Line Culinary Ambassador Cruise Hosts

Chef David Burke enhances the menu at Pinnacle Grill, including modern flavors and signature recipes. At present, Burke and his David Burke Hospitality Administration crew function or orchestrate the culinary part of 18 eating places, a historic occasion venue and a bakery. Additionally they oversee a rising roster of David Burke-branded merchandise, together with cookware, bakeware, steak sauce, cutlery and wine. He has been featured on “Prime Chef Masters,” “Each Day with Rachael Ray” and NBC’s “TODAY.”

Chef Ethan Stowell incorporates the flavors of the Pacific Northwest on ships crusing in that area, utilizing recent, sustainably sourced Alaska seafood. His fare is also featured at New York Pizza and Lido Market throughout the fleet, utilizing pasta and pizza crust made recent on board. Stowell is founder and CEO of ESR with a powerful roster of extremely acclaimed eating places. He was named one of many Finest New Cooks in America by Meals & Wine journal and one of many Finest New Chef All-Stars.

Chef Masaharu Morimoto is Holland America Line’s World Contemporary Fish Ambassador, bringing his signature fashion to dishes within the Eating Room and at Morimoto By Sea. This unique restaurant is featured on Nieuw Amsterdam and as a pop-up throughout the remainder of the fleet. Moreover, a Morimoto By Sea sushi counter is accessible inside the Tamarind Restaurant on Pinnacle- and Signature-class ships. Chef Morimoto — identified to thousands and thousands because the star of “Iron Chef” and “Iron Chef America” and government producer and head decide for Roku’s “Sushi Grasp” — has garnered important and common approval for his seamless integration of Western and Japanese components. He has eating places around the globe, is a cookbook creator and the recipient of quite a few awards.

Bartender Ivy Combine’s cocktails are featured on cruises to Mexico and South America, the place her distinctive information of the agave spirits subject shines by way of. In 2015, she co-opened her bar, Leyenda, with Julie Reiner in Brooklyn, New York, in addition to her bottle store Fiasco! Wine + Spirits. She is the creator of “Spirits of Latin America” and the recipient of quite a few awards. Combine is the co-founder of Velocity Rack, a woman-only, high-speed bartending competitors that has raised greater than $1 million for breast most cancers analysis.

Grasp Tea Blender Steve Schwartz is founding father of Artwork of Tea. He’s identified by many authoritative figures within the tea business as a Grasp Tea Blender. He has blended award-winning teas beneath the Artwork of Tea model, and his blends are supplied beneath the corporate’s private-label program for tea corporations around the globe.

Schwartz will host a tea tasting expertise, a “Rituals of Tea” seminar and an unique Excessive Tea with Artwork of Tea occasion on his Culinary Ambassador cruise.  

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About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]

Holland America Line has been exploring the world for greater than 150 years with expertly crafted itineraries, extraordinary service and real connections to the locations. Providing a perfectly-sized ship expertise, its fleet of 11 vessels visits almost 400 ports in 114 international locations around the globe and has shared the joys of Alaska for greater than 75 years — longer than another cruise line. Savour the Journey isn’t only a tagline, it’s a reinforcement that the cruise line gives experiences too good to rush by way of, connecting vacationers to the world and one another. Award-winning enrichment programming, leisure and delicacies that brings every locale on board, together with a revolutionary World Contemporary Fish Program, put Holland America Line on the forefront of premium cruising.