Multi Region
Anita Iaconangelo’s, Italian Connection Walking and Cooking Tours:
“All of our walking tours include the very best regional cuisine, but if you aspire to hands-on cooking lessons, we suggest you try one of our Culinary Tours or 2-3 Day Cooking Tours for an added authentic Italian experience: Shape cheese curds into plump provola in Sicily, and bake festival breads in a wood-fired oven, learn how a professional chef in Umbria uses olive oil as a main ingredient rather than a condiment, and cure your chapped lips forever, pick a lemon from a tree on Amalfi Coast, learn to cook with an Italian nonna and lunch above the sea, combine cooking with your honeymoon in Florence, and stay in the romantic Room with a View.”
“Our Culinary Tours include: Savoring Sicily, Walking & Cooking in Eastern Sicily, Walking & Cooking in Umbria, Cook Florence, Cook Amalfi Coast and Cook Sicily.”
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Pamela Sheldon Johns Italian Food Artisans:
“In our fast-paced lives, many of us are looking for a place to slow down and reflect upon the richness of life’s simplest pleasures. For over twenty years, Pamela Sheldon Johns has shared the pleasures of food and wine in her books and culinary workshops… at the table, in the kitchen, in an artisan’s workshop, or simply strolling through the farmers’ market. Pamela’s world-class workshops in Tuscany, Campania, Piemonte, Emilia-Romagna, Sicily and Cinque Terre are intimate experiences you’ll cherish for years to come. Marche, Umbria, Puglia, Veneto, Sardegna, and Abruzzo available by request for groups of six or more. Pamela was recently named by Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 culinary guides in Europe, and Food and Wine magazine placed her in the top ten cooking schools in Italy.”
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Lazio
Nancy Aiello’s Cook in Rome Tour:
“Visiting Rome without attending a Rome cooking class with the locals is not complete. Cook in Rome Tour specializes in private Rome cooking classes and Rome food tours for gourmet travelers visiting Rome with their families & friends to enjoy the best of Rome with real Roman cooks. Cook in Rome Tour offers Italy food lovers an unusual Rome experience and opens you the doors to an intimate and authentic Rome food discovery.”
Nancy Aiello’s Rome Cooking Class:
“While in Rome taking a cooking class in Rome as part of your Rome vacation is an unusual and enjoyable way to discover the Eternal City of Rome while learning to cook and taste delicious Italian food. When in Rome learn to cook Italian food, explore Rome food markets and enjoy hands on Rome cooking classes in a private home in the heart of Rome, this is your opportunity to ask lots of questions and find out Italian cookery tips and techniques!”
Marche
Ashley and Jason Bartner’s La Tavola Marche:
“La Tavola Marche is a unique culinary experience where you actively participate in Italian culture through seasonal activities paired with local artisan bakers, farmers, and wine makers while staying in a 300 year-old farmhouse agriturismo. If you are willing to muddy your feet, we’ll guide you off the beaten path where you will see Italy at its roots, away from regimented tours, crowds, and outlet malls.”
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Piedmont
Marla and Fabrizio Roncaglia’s Cooking Together at Bella Baita:
“Join us for our “Cooking Together” sessions and you will savor food bursting with flavor and marvel at just how divine simple food can be. We’ll send you home with new skills and recipes for what you tasted here. We design our cooking session around your interests and skill level, and showcase local, seasonal Piemontese cuisine and drink. We feature our sometimes less well-known regional specialties with creativity, striking a balance between traditional and modern dishes. Our cooking style and philosophy embraces seasonality, locality and freshness.”
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Tuscany
Pamela Sheldon Johns Italian Food Artisans:
“Since 1992, cookbook author Pamela Sheldon Johns has invited her students to immerse themselves in the unique culture and lifestyle of Tuscany by experiencing the passion of food and wine in the kitchen, at the table, and in the marketplace. Each day includes either hands-on cooking classes or demonstrations with local cooks, along with visits to the area’s food artisans. The classes are taught in English or fully translated, and offer you the experience of traditional, regional, and seasonal Italian cuisine. Pamela was recently featured on CNN, you can see it at CNN.com (search for Tuscan food tour). Join her year round at her organic farm, Poggio Etrusco, near Montepulciano. Lodging also available.”
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Judy Witts Francini’s Divina Cucina:
Judy Witts Francini, is a member of the Italian Personal Chef Association, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, a member of Slow Food International, and a student of cooking for over 30 years. She’s married to a native Florentine, Andrea Francini, whose knowledge of Florence provides Judy with valuable insights. Her blog, Over the Tuscan Stove, features weekly articles for those who want to keep current on Tuscany.
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Gina Stipo’s Ecco La Cucina:
“Whether your vacation dreams are to spend a morning cooking or a week learning and living as a Tuscan, we can help you fulfill that dream and come away with beautiful memories. Ecco La Cucina is an Italian cooking school offering hands-on cooking classes near Siena in Tuscany. Choose from a single day Tuscan cooking class, multiple days cooking classes or a weeklong culinary vacation tour – each will provide you with insights to this beautiful, rich culture.”
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tgiFLORENCE “Cooking in Chianti“:
“Italy’s cuisine is known and loved in all the world. It’s the comfort food we all think of when we want to eat a meal that satisfies all our senses. What could be more fun than learning how to cook while you’re in Tuscany? And where better than in our kitchen in Chianti! Come cook with us in our Tuscan country kitchen overlooking the vineyards and olive groves of the florentine Chianti hills. Chef Antonio Alfani of Lo Studiolo will show you the sensual wonders of Italian food and wine. After cooking together, everyone sits down to our convivial table to enjoy a great meal with new friends.”
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Umbria
Anne Robichaud’s Cooking Classes and Banquets in Umbria:
“Join us for a cooking class of Umbrian rural cuisine in our Assisi farmhouse. We’ll start with market shopping and our rounds will include a visit to the local caseificio to taste and select, freshly-made cheeses, a stop to buy vegetables from farrmwoman Novella and then on to the butcher. A stop for a taste of Giovannino’s wine and prosciutto is a must, followed by a visit to our farm neighbor to buy fresh eggs. Then, on to our Assisi area farmhouse for our fully “hands-on” cooking class.”
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Elizabeth Wholey’s Amore Sapore:
“To love flavors, brings the traditional tastes, textures, and colors of Tuscany, Umbria and other Italian regions to your own kitchen, at home in Italy. Amore Sapore offers cooking classes and welcomes your participation in creating such varied local specialties as ravioli and gnocchi with various sauces, sausages, flatbreads, marmalades and preserves, meats and games or fish grilled over coals in the hearth, and cooking with truffles and local herbs found growing wild in the countryside.”
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Jeff and Judith’s Aroma Cucina:
“We love sharing the food and wine of Umbria, where eating seasonally and local is a way of life. We offer hands on, informal cooking classes in Italy, in your holiday villa. Our Italian Cooking Classes typically last around 2-4 hours but can be tailored to your needs.”
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Judith Greenwood’s Learn to cook Italian:
“The real thing, that is. Group lessons at your rental villa kitchen almost anywhere in central Italy. Those who are involved in a lesson pay €95 each with a minimum of €350 and those who just join us to eat pay €45. We will cook what’s in season, foods from all regions and an entire meal from antipasto to dessert.”
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Il Grotini di Zio Totò with Ross and Sarah Slade:
“Umbria Cucina offers a fabulous opportunity to experience a week in the green heart of Italy, enjoying the culinary tradition of Umbria, together with accommodation in a medieval setting. Chef Massimo Costanzi grew up in the delightful medieval hill top village of Monte Castello di Vibio, and developed his passion for cooking from an early age.”
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Letizia Mattiacci’s Alla Madonna del Piatto:
“Experience cooking with an Italian family. As a traveler, you can sample Italy’s famed cuisine in various great restaurants, but cooking at someone’s home offers you a unique opportunity to savor the true Italian flavors and traditions. When Ruurd and I opened our bed and breakfast in the Assisi countryside, we wanted to share our enthusiasm for Italy’s culinary culture. That’s why we’d like to give you the opportunity to share a day in our beautiful kitchen.”
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Veneto
Monica Cesarato’s Cook in Venice:
“With Monica’s passion for food and her 20 years experience in teaching and Arianna’s culinary skills and Venetian food knowledge, you will learn to cook just like Venetian women do. In an informal and relaxed setting, in Arianna’s own home and kitchen,in Mira, near Venice-Italy you will be able to learn to cook easy and every day recipes which you will easily be able to recreate back home and at the same time you will be learning a bit of everyday Italian.”
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