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American tourist who wanted to take part in a cooking school in Italy knew exactly where to go and what to find there. But as more and more cooking schools are opening all over Italy, picking the right cooking school in Italy is now more fun. You will find cooking schools in Italy being held not just in farmhouse kitchens, but also at hotels and wineries with state-of-the-art facilities. We’ve noticed some other promising trends, like trips to artisanal food producers, customisable classes and intensive multi-week programs. To get the inside scoop, we went to 10 elite, Italy-focused travel advisers and asked them which cooking schools their clients love most. Here, the new and classic programs that came out on top.
Tuscookany offers their Cooking School in Italy since 1998 in 3 top villas in the heart of Tuscany. tuscookany.com
TuscanyFlorence: Cucina con VistaTeacher Chef Elena Mattei, a Florence native, ran a restaurant before opening the school in 2001.
Setting A farmhouse in the hills, with a professional kitchen and its own vineyards and olive groves.
Classes Hands-on classes of up to four students focus on classic Tuscan dishes—what Mattei refers to as “grandmother’s cooking”— such as crostini alla fiorentina con fegatini (chicken liver pâté on toast) and polpettone al pomodoro (meatballs with tomato sauce).
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American tourist who wanted to take part in a cooking school in Italy knew exactly where to go and what to find there. But as more and more cooking schools are opening all over Italy, picking the right cooking school in Italy is now more fun. You will find cooking schools in Italy being held not just in farmhouse kitchens, but also at hotels and wineries with state-of-the-art facilities. We’ve noticed some other promising trends, like trips to artisanal food producers, customisable classes and intensive multi-week programs. To get the inside scoop, we went to 10 elite, Italy-focused travel advisers and asked them which cooking schools their clients love most. Here, the new and classic programs that came out on top.
Tuscookany offers their Cooking School in Italy since 1998 in 3 top villas in the heart of Tuscany. tuscookany.com
TuscanyFlorence: Cucina con VistaTeacher Chef Elena Mattei, a Florence native, ran a restaurant before opening the school in 2001.
Setting A farmhouse in the hills, with a professional kitchen and its own vineyards and olive groves.
Classes Hands-on classes of up to four students focus on classic Tuscan dishes—what Mattei refers to as “grandmother’s cooking”— such as crostini alla fiorentina con fegatini (chicken liver pâté on toast) and polpettone al pomodoro (meatballs with tomato sauce).
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Field Trips Wine tours through Chianti; trips to Sant'Ambrogio market to try Florentine specialties, such as lampredotto (tripe).
Recommended By Pamela O’Shea, Custom Italy; customitaly.com.
One- to four-day classes year-round, by request. From $270 to $1,025; 011-39-055-632-348 orcucinaconvista.it.
Montalcino: Castello Banfi–Il BorgoTeachers Heinz Beck, Rome’s only Michelin three-star chef, will be the first guest teacher when cooking programs begin (they’re slated to start in October). Home cooks and local chefs will lead future classes.
Setting Castello Banfi winery’s seven-month-old Il Borgo property in Tuscany. Guests stay in one of 14 luxe rooms and suites in stone houses that were built in the 18th century.
Classes Over three days of hands-on classes (for no more than 14 students), chef Beck will focus on classic and contemporary Tuscan dishes and pair them with Castello Banfi estate wines. Castello Banfi’s winemakers and sommeliers will also lead wine seminars and take students on tours of the estate’s vineyard before tastings. The three-day cooking- class packages include dinner at Il Ristorante, Castello Banfi’s Michelin-starred restaurant.
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The first classes will be held October 28–31 and November 25–28. From $4,000, including accommodations; 800-645-6511 or castellobanfi.com.
Montepulciano: Italian Food ArtisansTeacher Longtime Italian cooking instructor and cookbook author Pamela Sheldon Johns moved to Tuscany full-time six years ago to lead culinary workshops.
Setting Poggio Etrusco, Sheldon Johns’s 15-acre family farm. Students stay at villa apartments overlooking the tiny hill town of Cortona.
Classes Hands-on lessons for groups of up to 12 cover dishes like pici, a southern-Tuscan pasta.
Field Trips Visits to Avignonesi, one of the best producers of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, and to Mondo X, a restaurant in the 13th-century Convent of St. Francis.
Recommended By Pamela Scott, Foothill Enterprises; 818-726-5107.
Classes year-round. From $237 to $3,600, including accommodations; 805-963-7289 orfoodartisans.com.
Fiesole: Villa San Michele School of CookeryTeachers Guest chefs, many from Orient-Express hotels in Italy.
Setting A former 15th-century Franciscan monastery in the Fiesole hills that Orient-Express restored into a stunning hotel. The cooking school launched in 2004; a kids’ program (for ages 8 to 14) in 2005.
Classes Hands-on lessons range from two-and-a-half-hour classes on Italian staples like risotto to three-day intensive pasta courses taught by three different chefs and focusing on the distinct styles of northern, southern and central Italy.
Recommended By Pamela O’Shea, Custom Italy; customitaly.com. Peter Friedman, Unique Travel of Palm Beach, Inc.; uniquetrav.com.
Classes from April through October. Programs are generally three to four days. From $1,330, including accommodations; 800-237-1236 or villasanmichele.com.
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Classes Hands-on lessons range from two-and-a-half-hour classes on Italian staples like risotto to three-day intensive pasta courses taught by three different chefs and focusing on the distinct styles of northern, southern and central Italy.
Recommended By Pamela O’Shea, Custom Italy; customitaly.com. Peter Friedman, Unique Travel of Palm Beach, Inc.; uniquetrav.com.
Classes from April through October. Programs are generally three to four days. From $1,330, including accommodations; 800-237-1236 or villasanmichele.com.
Recommended By Pamela O’Shea, Custom Italy; customitaly.com. Peter Friedman, Unique Travel of Palm Beach, Inc.; uniquetrav.com.
Classes from April through October. Programs are generally three to four days. From $1,330, including accommodations; 800-237-1236 or villasanmichele.com.
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Cooking School in Italy