Original ‘Vacation-In-A-Box’ Subscription and Gift Box Service TROVE Launches Italian-Themed Valentine’s Date Night Box

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TROVE Travelers have virtually experienced Florence, Italy, Kyoto, Japan, and Seattle, Washington; now, TROVE Travelers will celebrate love with a delicious Italian cooking class and meal!

The original ‘travel-from-home’ subscription and gift box service TROVE brings date night to you with their newly curated Valentine’s Day box. Celebrate love by indulging in the process of making a homemade Italian meal with your special someone, all privately and virtually Chef-guided from the comfort of your own kitchen. The TROVE Valentine’s Day box also comes stocked with the Spritz Cocktail Book and a perfect pair of cocktailing glasses so that you may try your hand at Italy’s bubbly Apertivo while cooking! The TROVE Valentine’s Day box is on sale now and will begin shipping throughout the United States the last week of January. Order yours today at hello-trove.com.

People around the country are taking in the cultural traditions and tourism experiences to be had at destinations around the world with TROVE. This new subscription and gift box has people discovering the sights, sounds, and tastes of city after city all from the comfort of their home. What was born out of a longing to resume travel and discovery during this period of COVID-related quarantine, has begun to satisfy the wanderlust for people around the country.

“My Co-Founder Emilie and I are best friends and long-time travel companions, having explored 17 countries and 91 cities together to-date,” Erika Takeuchi said. “Immersing ourselves in new cultures over the years has shaped us and remains a very important tradition in our friendship. When travel bans became the norm in 2020, we felt inspired to dream up how it might be possible to ‘travel’ from home, and that is ultimately how TROVE was born.” Through the process of building this concept and each TROVE box, Erika and Emilie cultivate connections with local experts and artisans in the cities they explore in order to curate experiences and locally-sourced box contents that offer TROVE Travelers a unique window into the local culture. “TROVE is not meant to replace travel, but to expand all the ways one might learn and absorb new-to-you traditions while also making memories through the immersive experiences the box offers - especially during this time of quarantine and restriction,” Takeuchi said. “It is incredibly fun, and we are thrilled to be sharing a specially curated and romantic travel experience for our fourth TROVE box offering!”

TROVE has multiple ambitions, the first of which is to bring the joy of discovering new places, people, and cultures to those yearning for them. But, second, is to support small businesses around the world who have been the casualties of the fallen tourism industry due to the widespread shutdowns of 2020 and beyond. To do this, TROVE sources local ingredients for each box, and they also donate 20% of their profits directly to the host businesses featured in each box. “It’s so important to us that when it is safe to resume travel that the beautiful gems we know we have yet to discover are still right where they should be. This is not only a passion project for us -- it’s also our small contribution to those who have given us so much in our past travels,” Co-Founder Emilie Bridon said.

WHAT’S INSIDE TROVE’S VALENTINE’S DAY BOX


  • 60-minute exclusive recorded cooking class with Florence-based Chef Patrizia Steccato so you can watch and cook privately on your date night.

  • White Truffle oil, 100% Italian Wheat Flour, and a heart-shaped cookie cutter that you’ll use to make heart-shaped Truffle ravioli.

  • Spritz Cocktail Book – learn all about Italy’s bubbly Aperitivo and enjoy 50 recipes to try on your own!

  • Cocktail glasses – set of 2 cocktail glasses perfect for your spritz-making

  • Seattle Chocolate Truffles

  • Face masks for you and yours

SELECT PAST TROVE BOXES

The very first at-home TROVE subscription and gift box took Americans to Florence, Italy where they joined Chef Patrizia Steccato in the virtual and communal experience of creating an Italian meal. This TROVE box also included a watercolor workshop with artist Betty Ritschel during which travelers learned watercolor techniques while painting the famous Duomo. In addition to these two professional workshops, TROVE Travelers received a watercolor set, curated Spotify playlist, unique Italian snacks, and a number of locally-sourced specialty ingredients used to make the Italian meal with Chef Patrizia Steccato.

TROVE’s second subscription and gift box offering took subscribers to Kyoto, Japan with Chef Aya Igano and Tea Expert, Atsuko Mori. Chef Aya led a 3-dish authentic, homemade Japanese virtual cooking workshop and Atsuko led a Japanese Tea Ceremony during which TROVE Travelers learned how to prepare and drink a delicious bowl of matcha tea. Sweet and savory Japanese snacks, furoshiki cloths from Musubi Kyoto, special Japanese ingredients for the cooking workshop, ceremonial grade matcha tea and a handmade bamboo whisk and teaspoon set for the tea ceremony were all included within the Kyoto box.

Michelle Leyva