Tour Classes in Boston, MA

History Happy Hour!  Raise your glass to the past, and come discover the odd and fascinating things people thought and did in the Middle Ages and beyond.  Professor of History will offer a short presentation, and then open the floor to animated conversation over drinks!  No previous knowledge required.  Each week something...

During this virtual pizza tour, one of our Pizza Pros will talk you through 8 of the most important pizzerias in NYC, highlighting their history, recipes and culture. It’s a redux of the city’s greatest slices and you can experience it all from the comfort of your couch. This 45 minute session is followed by a Q&A with your guide. What to Expect...

Every week we tackle a different facet of pizza history. You'll follow pizza's journey from humble beginnings in Southern Italy to its introduction to NYC in the late 19th century as your guide explains our favorite food’s incredible evolution through historic photos and archival documents. The exact content of each week's class changes so keep an...

Expert tips, tricks, and techniques from a professionally trained chef and cookbook author. Here’s your chance to discover how to add flavor and excitement to your cooking with Rob Rosenthal’s user-friendly formula for, “the most taste with the fewest ingredients and the least effort.”

Study the crucial role birds, insects, and bats play in local ecosystems. Using gorgeous photographs taken over years of field study, expert naturalist Alan Wells discusses the many different types of pollination, as well as how the roles played by a plant's flower structure, nectar production, and fragrance.

Tour Manhattan's only indoor hydroponic farm. Sip complementary Prosecco as you taste new and unique flavors from around the world. A sensory experience unlike any other in New York. Inside our Tribeca production farm, we use LED lighting, hydroponics, and technology to grow a huge variety of culinary plants, numbering over 200 to date. We use no...

Supporters of the market economy always celebrate its strong exponential growth trend but don't want to recognize the parallel exponential growth of the side-effects, like pollution and climate change. These are "externalities" in economic lingo, or "neighborhood effects," but the projections of large parts of the world becoming unlivable, declines...

Join charismatic actor and teacher Leo Schaff as he breathes life into Shakespeare’s words, acting out portions of the play and offering illuminating insights into the Bard’s language, plot lines, historical context and eternal relevance, all with a generous sense of humor. “If music be the food of love…” The jewel of festive comedy. Cross-gartered,...

This virtual talk in particular will highlight plants in the Washington Park Arboretum with beautiful fall color. Ray Larson, Curator of Living Collections, will take us on a virtual journey through the most interesting plant collections in the UW Botanic Gardens. Learn about rare and unusual plants, collections based on genetics and eco-geographic...