Disney World is offering a new behind-the-scenes culinary kitchen tour

Disney is offering a new backstage experience in July centered around the one thing everyone loves – food.

Disney publicity photo of the the new Family Culinary Adventure.

Starting July 8, the “Disney Family Culinary Adventure” at the Contemporary Resort gives guests a hands-on cooking experience where you make a five-course dinner.

“We want to show them the tricks of the trade,” Chef Frank Brough said in a press release. “It’s a guided experience but they do everything from making cheese and butter to rolling out pasta and breaking down a whole beef tenderloin.”

The tour starts at 5 p.m. in the catering kitchen where guests put on aprons, hats an gloves and learn about food preparation in the following areas:

• Garde manger, is the French term for food produced in the cold kitchen, where guests learn how to make farmer cheese, farmer cheese, from-scratch butter, and how to plate a gourmet salad on a rapidly moving electric belt in the professional kitchen.
• Sushi, with sushi chefs teaching the art of rolling sushi and sashimi. (This station may rotate with other culinary ideas.)
• Boucherie, or butcher station, where guests learn how to trim a beef tenderloin to make the perfect filet mignon.
• Pasta, with just three ingredients (semolina, olive oil and egg), guests learn to make tender noodles from scratch, along with fresh basil pesto.
• Patisserie, or bakery, where guests get to play with chocolate, mousse and other sweet endings.
• After the food prep, everyone sits down at a long table eat what was just prepared.

The program is planned two evenings a week. Cost is $175 plus tax, $125 plus tax for ages 9 to 12. More information can be obtained by calling 407-WDW-PLAY.