Italians know enjoy life and fine food.
Each year many people combine vacations with food and attend cooking schools around the world. Add any part of Italy into the mix and you have the makings for a fabulous vacation while you learn to make some of the most celebrated food in the world. Cooking schools abound in Tuscany, from those conducted for professional chefs, to small villa kitchens that will arrange classes for their guests. Italians know live and eat well and are anxious to share their knowledge with their students. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Good Tastes of Tuscany
The Good Tastes of Tuscany Cooking Class offers a full day in their original gallery kitchen in the 13th century Villa Pandolfini, with hands-on instruction with one of their professional Italian chefs. They also offer wine courses, again in their villa, in the Italian Chianti region, just a few kilometers away from Florence. Both classes are available for English speaking students.
For inquiries in the USA:
Good Tastes of Tuscany Connextions Group, Inc.
2825 East Cottonwood Parkway
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
801-405-0700
www.tuscany-cooking-class.com
Tuscookany
Learn to cook Italian cuisine in the Tuscookany cantinas.
Tuscookany has taught cooking holidays in their Italian cooking school in Tuscany for more than 10 years. Students learn to make classic Tuscan dishes in one of two classic Italian villa cantinas, which have been equipped as professional kitchens with enough working space for everyone. You will learn to make a wide range of antipasto, pasta, pizza and sauces. They offer, in English, three-day courses that teach four different four-course Italian meals. Reservations may be made online.
Casa Ombuto
Larniano 21
52014 Poppi (AR)
Italy
Torre del Tartufo
Loc Il Podere 56
52010 Chiaveretto (AR)
Italy
italiancookerycourse.com
Culinary Institute of Tuscany
Olive Garden’s Culinary Institute of Tuscany is located in the 11th century village of Riserva di Fizzano in the heart of the Chianti region. Established in 1999, every year Olive Garden chefs travel to the Institute for four weeks to learn authentic Italian cooking from chefs Romana Neri and Paolo Lafata. If traveling to Italy, reservations may be made to stay at the Riserva di Fizzano holiday retreat and their highly trained staff is happy to organize cooking courses during your stay.
Localita Fizzano
53011 Castellina in Chianti (SI)
Italy
riservadifizzano.com
Locanda Casanuova
Located in Thierry's vineyard, the villa teaches authentic Tuscan cooking.
"La Bellezza della Semplicita", or loosely translated, the Beauty of Simplicity, has been the motto of the Locanda Casanuova for 25 years. Simplicity in surroundings without luxury, but with just those pleasantries that help you relax in natural surroundings in one of the most beautiful holiday regions in the heart of Tuscany. Located just a few minutes drive outside of Figline Valdarno, in the midst of its working vineyard, Thierry and Ulla offer their guests comfort while spoiling them with authentic Tuscan cuisine.
While organized cooking classes are not a scheduled event at Locanda Casanuova, the staff will work with groups that desire to participate in fun, informal classes around the huge marble-topped table located in their kitchen. Arrangements, including size of class, should be made in advance. Students learn from the women of the surrounding villages, who prepare all of the villa’s meals. Reservations may be made online.
Ulla und Thierry Besancon
San Martino Altoreggi, 52
I-50063 Figline Valdarno (Firenze)
casanuova.info/en/index.html
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