Joanne Weir's Plates and Places

Attend a cooking class in the Veneto, Italy with Joanne and her students as they create a two-course meal featuring the region's famous Amarone wine and explore one of the region's most historic rice mills.

Join Joanne and her students as they explore Greek food and culture on the island of Kea in Greece.

Journey to Morocco with Joanne and her students as they learn first-hand how to make this humble yet delicious Moroccan stew called a tangia.

Join Joanne as she travels the world, in search of the perfect cookie in Amsterdam, Riquewihr, France, the Greek islands, Italy, and back in San Francisco, where she makes an ice cream sandwich.

Join Joanne as she travels to Parma, Italy to learn about the exceptional Italian tomato, and then brings them to her villa kitchen in Verona to make a comforting meal with her students.

Join Joanne and group of food bloggers in the California wine county to learn about olives and cook up an olive themed dinner.

Joanne visits a California fig orchard and learns about both fresh and dried figs.

Experience Alsace, France as Joanne explores the quaint and picturesque town of Riquewihr and learns about Alsatian tarts, pretzels and one of her favorite food wines, Riesling.

Travel with Joanne and her students in Marrakech, Morocco to learn about Moroccan salads and experience the food and spectacle of the Marrakesh medina at night.

Travel to the tiny Island of Kea in Greece to learn all about moussaka and skordalia.

Join Joanne as she travels to Antica Locanda Sul Mincio with her students to enjoy a seven-course tortaloni banquet and then returns to master the fine art of making homemade tortaloni.

Join Joanne and her students as they travel down the Rhine River to visit Strasbourg in northern France.

Today we're going to the source to visit some Berber women just outside Marrakech who learn the fine art of making couscous like the women from Morocco have made for generations.

Joanne takes you to the spectacular castle-filled Middle Rhine Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Joanne visits a potter in Marrakech, Morocco to learn how the classic tagine pot is created, and then her students make traditional tagines over open-flame braisers.

Joanne takes you to a hilltop in the spectacular Eastern Washington Mountains to cook an amazing beef tenderloin and cabernet-inspired feast.

Join Joanne as she visits one of the most romantic destinations in the world.

Joanne takes you right to the source of one of her favorite ingredients: caviar.

Joanne takes you to the source of some of her favorite spices, a quintessential spice souk in the markets of Marrakech.

Join Joanne as she explores the seafood specialties of Greece.

Today in Amsterdam, Joanne visits the farmers market in the Noordermarkt, and tastes the hugely popular dish of pickled herring.

Travel to Morocco with Joanne and her students and learn how to make the paper-thin pastry dough warka and the classic sweet and savory bisteeya.

Travel to La Maison Christian in Strasbourg, France to make chocolate truffles with owner Christophe Meyer, and then visit Heidelberg, Germany to taste some of their finest chocolates.

After a quick breakfast featuring traditional Msemen bread, Joanne travels to the Atlas Mountains to experience the rustic Berber Market.

Travel with Joanne and her students to the Greek Isle of Kea where they learn how to make tomato bread, stuffed peppers, and roasted lamb.

Visit Cologne, Germany with Joanne to taste mustard at a company that's been milling mustard since 1810.

Joanne visits Hotel Sacher in Vienna to taste and learn about the famous Sacher Torte and then visits a modern pastry shop in Vienna to learn the secrets of Sacher Torte from an up and coming young chef.

Joanne and a group of friends get together on the island of Syros in Greece to prepare a feast of a whole roasted lamb and a few Greek inspired side dishes.

Visit gorgeous Salzburg on the Danube and explore some historical sites including a local salt shop.

Joanne visits a small town in Eastern Washington to see how this rural wine-making community honors breakfast.

Joanne goes caper hunting with some friends along the stone walls overlooking the Aegean.

Joanne goes to the source of Italy's most famous tomato region to discover what makes San Marzano tomatoes some of the most prized in the world.

Joanne entertains and instructs a few food blogger friends who have a lot of questions about figs, foraging and wine.

Joanne starts her day by visiting a local farmer's market and then stops by to visit friends at their Mediterranean restaurant, Saffron, and cook one of their most popular dishes using one of Joanne's favorite ingredients.

Joanne goes tapas-hopping in Rioja, Spain and brings the inspiration back to her home kitchen where we will experience the fine art of authentic tapas-making without leaving home.

In the heart of Parma, Joanne is inspired by two tomato recipes in a beautiful century old grain mill-turned restaurant.

Beer, sausage and schnitzel on the beautiful Danube!

Joanne visits her friend, ex-rugby player/poet, Diego, in his ancient wine cellar in Parma to taste wines made in small batches by cult Italian winemakers.

Joanne travels the world to bring potato recipes to her studio kitchen.

Joanne is determined to learn the secret to making the perfect paella, so when Spanish friends invite her to cook up a storm with them along the River Oja in Northern Spain, she jumps at the chance.

When it comes to food markets in a new city, Joanne is always on the hunt!

Joanne is having a love affair,-- in Italy with tomatoes!

Greek small plates, or meze, are very much a part of Greek life.

Joanne takes us on a shopping spree for beans in the Spanish Basque Country and on the Greek island of Syros.

Come along with Joanne to Northern Spain and find out what makes the prized Tempranillo grape so unique.

This is no ordinary picnic!

Come along and meet the renowned Chef Massimo Spigaroli, who makes one of the most coveted and revered cured hams in the world.

Joanne and her students take a class with Chef Popi who shares her secrets on making her specialty, classic moussaka, on the Greek island of Syros.

Today Joanne makes a b-line to visit the incomparable Budapest Central Market in search of paprika, the spice Budapest is most famous for.

While cruising along the Danube, Joanne does a fresh spin on a Viennese classic, the Wiener Schnitzel, and an inspired potato dish you won't soon forget.

Join Joanne in the charming little village of Ezcaray in La Rioja, Northern Spain and cook alongside two-star Michelin chef, Francis Paniego, in his home kitchen.

Sometimes, there's no place like home and Joanne loves discovering special culinary finds close to hers.