Harvest Moon Bed and Breakfast of Lancaster PA

Experience a journey through several of the most celebrated culinary venues of Italy

Chef/Innkeeper Carl Kosko offers invaluable advice and recipes

New Holland, PA. – With the excitement of the 2008 season in the air, Chef/innkeeper Carl Kosko of Harvest Moon Bed and Breakfast brings to light ways to WOW your dinner guest with specific detailed regional Italian Cooking.  In a weekend filled with not only cooking advice, but fine dining experiences and informative tours, Harvest Moon B&B’s, “Bella Luna Weekend” (Beautiful Moon) offers the ideal “edutaining” getaway.  Learn how to expertly prepare the simplest of ingredients into a work of art in your kitchen.  The Harvest Moon Bella Luna Weekend is scheduled for May 16^th and 17^th and October 17^th and 18^th.  These weekend packages include recipes for traditional takes on classic Italian Cooking and demonstrations on how to prepare them, along with an evening of fine dining topped off with a tour to the Central Market where the Amish sell their produce and meats each morning.  All of this is set at The Harvest Moon B&B, in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, where the clip clop of Amish buggies is heard in tune with the chopping of fresh herbs, and both combine to offer the perfect culinary excursion.

At the heart of Harvest Moon’s Tuscan Retreat Cooking Weekend is a demonstration of wonderful new ways to prepare traditional Tuscan dishes.  Watch as Chef Carl prepares the following recipes, which all participants will take home.

Guests who take part in the weekend package will enjoy a four-course gourmet meal at a local gourmet restaurant and also a wonderful cheese tasting back at Harvest Moon.  Suggestions for pairings with wines will be included, and guests are welcome to bring their favorite wines to enjoy with the Antipasti tasting.  The weekend will conclude with a tour of Lancaster’s Central Market, where Amish and Mennonite farmers bring their produce and meat to sell each day.

Top this culinary adventure off with romantic accommodations including two-story suites and Jacuzzi tubs, and the Harvest Moon B&B’s “Bella Luna Weekend” will be the perfect way to enjoy your culinary vacation.

The “Bella Luna Weekend” includes:

• Breakfast each morning
• A collection of Italian Recipes extracted from personal travels and well loved cookbooks
• “Bella Luna” cooking demonstration
• Four course dinner one night
• Antipasti tasting
• Tour of Lancaster’s Central Market
• A fine gift from Harvest Moon

All for $275.00 per couple (not including tax)

In order to keep the weekend personalized, limited space is available.  Book now by calling 888-824-3763 or visit www.harvestmoonbandb.com

On Saturday, May 10, three area bed and breakfasts will guide tourists and locals on a path sure to please all five senses.

With the help of local experts and nurseries, they will explore all facets of herbs – starting with aesthetically pleasing additions to gardens, whether in containers, traditional herb gardens or intermingled with favorite perennial partners.

They’ll learn the medicinal properties, new ways to use both the fragrance and taste of herbs and finish the day with a feast of a five-course herb-inspired dinner on Saturday night.

Not to be overlooked is the obvious “green” benefit of growing your own herbs and having them at hand whenever the inspiration arrives to make your own salad dressing, marinade, seasoning, or add an element of crisp flavor to any dish.  The fresh quality will certainly be the favored alternative to driving to the local store and buying plastic-encased herbs that have sat in warehouses, trucked across the country, or shipped from outside the US.

The package is offered at $250 per couple and includes all tours, tastings, lunch, dinner and transportation.  The event is open to the public.  Guests can arrange to stay at any of the bed and breakfasts and receive a special herb-inspired gift basket.