If you think that savoring delectable food and going on an African safari is incomprehensible, Uncharted Outposts Safari & Travel Company, a premier tour operator, will prove you wrong. In designing their new culinary adventures they have come up with a delicious sampling of flavors in the wild!
The itinerary begins at the rustic-chic Ngong House. Here, you’ll stay in a 15-foot-high tree house with a traditional grass roof. Within its elegance, you?ll have an uninterrupted view of the stunning Ngong Hills; an excellent staff sees to all your needs. Before dinner, gather for drinks around the campfire. Then, dine divinely while admiring a breathtaking sunset.
After one night, it’s off to Campi Ya Kanzi in the Chyulu Hills. Of your four days at this luxury tented safari camp, one will be spent learning to make tantalizing Italian specialties. Campi Ya Kanzi?s owners, Antonella and Luca Belpietro, are Italian born and have expertly taught their African chefs the art of refined Italian cooking. During your own lessons, you’ll learn to make hearty pastas, a perfect risotto al dente and a heavenly tiramisu.
For evening meals, you’ll savor your own phenomenal creations (asparagus risotto with fresh parmesan; oven-roasted red snapper with garlic, lemon and capers) while overlooking Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Breakfast might be home-roasted granola drizzled with wild honey or an herb-filled Italian omelet, while lunch options include tortellini with sun-dried tomato sauce or an arugula salad with roasted beets. Save room for a dessert of mango-ginger gelato or Amarula-drizzled tiramisu.
When you?re finally full, head out on a safari game drive led by a Masai tracker in an open Land Rover. Your guide will introduce you to local medicinal plants and share lore of the Maasai culture and traditions.
Next up is four days at romantic Cottars 1920’s Camp, where a full-day culinary experience takes you back to the early 
20th century in traditional Swahili safari style.
Explore the Maasai Mara region?s exotic flavors with a breakfast of eggs and Kenyan bacon, posho (a soft maize mash), orange ugali biscuits ? and chai marsala to wake you up.
Lunch, prepared by local chefs with locally sourced ingredients, is an African-style barbeque; highlights include steak sandwiches on just-baked bread, githeri (potato, kidney beans and corn) and barbequed bananas atop ice cream.
Dinner, in the bush, is made over a campfire in a cast-iron pot. Lamb curry comes alongside coconut, bananas, chutney and potatoes marsala. Capping your gourmet day: passion fruit pudding drizzled with a honey-ginger brandy sauce. You?ll sleep well because accommodations here are as tasteful as the food.
Connoisseurs of East African cuisine will savor the next four days at Ol Lentille, a small collection of decadently gorgeous houses on the vast Laikipia Plateau.
Work with master chef Andrew Jackson to create regional dishes using local, organic ingredients, engage in early-morning bread baking, and learn how to spit-roast. Visit the nearby Maasai village to learn about traditional foods, prepare your own five-course dinner, and dine under the stars.
You?ll leave with the recipes ? and the know-how ? for Zanzibar fish soup, lentil-tomato consomm?, lavender panacotta, quail cr?me caramel and other new-to-you recipes.
Conclude your epic, edible journey at Giraffe Manor, eight miles from bustling 
Nairobi. Past guests have included Walter Cronkite, Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain. Like them, you?ll have the opportunity to feed the estate?s magnificent, almost-extinct Rothschild giraffes. Your own phenomenal meals take place in the wood paneled formal dining room, hosted by the manor?s gracious owners.
When you finally return home, you will bring with you some new recipes to impress your loved ones, unforgettable memories.. and perhaps a few extra pounds.
