Cooking in Italy

The cooking program consist of three lessons which are approximately three hours each day. For the first cooking class, the chef will teach you how to make lamb with potatoes roasted in the wood oven, taralli~ a traditional baked bread treat, and the traditional dry biscotti.

Join Chef Francesco Gardella in the town of Rapallo in the heart of the Riviera di Levante for a delightful hands-on cooking experience and discover the secrets of authentic Ligurian cuisine. Learn the art of preparing the perfect pesto sauce using local fragrant basil and delicately flavored Ligurian olive oil.

Join Executive Chefs Guiseppe Vigna, Marco and their professional culinary team for an extraordinary hands-on cooking experience in the lap of luxury. This 5 Star Culinary program offers you the opportunity of experiencing the best Italian cooking in a superior property with beautiful Lake views.

Join Francesca in Emilia-Romagna for our country-cooking program set in the heart the gastronomic capital of Italy. You will participate in hands-on cooking classes with lunch or dinner following on this culinary tour featuring the foods of Emilia-Romagna.

Join us in Verona for an extraordinary culinary experience with award-winning Executive Chef Giorgio. Chef Giorgio, whose work experience includes a spell at the Chef de Partie, the Villa Paradiso in Perugia, La Rosa-Salo, Palazzo Arzaga, and Hotel Arcadio ~all in 4 to 5 star properties, is master in the kitchen.

Our Venice cooking program takes you to a private palazzo, where you will share the wonders of Venetian cooking with Executive Chef Sebastiano.

Executive Chef Marc Lanteri invites you experience the Piedmont's unique food and wines as he offers his hands-on cooking classes set at the prestigious Michelin Star restaurant property in Cuneo.

Discover the secrets of truffles – from hunting to cooking – with your host and owner Giorgio at the Palazzo in Cuneo. Enjoy an authentic “Truffle Hunt” with a maestro trifolao and his dogs. Meet your guide in the charming Langhe area, and walk wooded paths in search of the most precious white truffles (October – December) of the Region.

Join Chef Beppe at San Felice a Ema just outside Florence and steep yourself in the centuries-old charm of this beautifully renovated nobleman’s residence. Cooking classes take place in the refined elegance of Villa Florentine with its characteristic grounds of vineyards and olive groves set in the rolling Chianti hills.

Join property owner & Terenzio and Chefs Maria & Luca in the Food & Wine In The Land Of Siena program, touring Valdorcia, Pienza, Montalcino, San Gimignano, and Montepulciano; tasting the Brunello wines of the regione, and preparing great Tuscan cuisine.