Our Italian cooking school is in our stunning sixteenth-century palazzo, a private Renaissance palace located in the Historic Center of Bologna. Conducted in a modern professional restaurant kitchen with individual work areas, you cook with Italian chefs. Our hands-on cooking courses are taught in English. Classes are small in size so you fully participate and always receive individual attention throughout our course.
We begin in Bologna's outdoor market, an experience not to be missed! Surrounded by mounds of ripe seasonal fruits and vegetables, seafood, specialty meats and cheeses, you'll learn how to select the best for our classes. Then we'll stroll to our very own palazzo and make delectable meals in our Italian kitchen! Immerse yourself for one delectable course, enjoying the finest in Italian cooking in our cooking classes in Italy. It will be an experience you'll savor for a lifetime!
Mary Beth Clark received the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from the Italian Ministry for Economic Development by the Italian Trade Commission.
La Cucina Italiana Cooking Courses
In Emilia-Romagna
Basics of Great Italian Cooking
A Cook's Dream! Six wonderful days of cooking classes in Italy with chefs. Shop in Bologna's outdoor market. Watch Parmigiano-Reggiano made before your very eyes. See the Ravenna mosaics, visit a UNESCO World Heritage site and enjoy driving along the lovely Adriatic coast to our incredible Michelin-star cooking class...It's a fabulous International Cooking School experience!
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Pizza, Pizza, Pizza!
Join us for our special hands-on cooking course in Italy with two outstanding professional pizza chefs. An exceptional opportunity, you make the two traditional types of Italian pizza, thin crust and thick crust, with a Sicilian pizzaiolo and an Amalfitano pizzaiolo. From special yeast dough through baking in a wood-burning brick oven, learn all different types of pizza, stuffed pizza and how to turn the dough into fabulous regional specialties! Included is our countryside visit with culinary artisans who make Parmigiano-Reggiano and balsamic vinegar and lunch in Modena...
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In Emilia-Romagna & Tuscany
Savoring Emilia-Romagna & Tuscany
Cook in two great food and wine regions, plus markets, restaurants and stay on a Tuscan wine estate! Delicious Italian cooking school vacation with cooking classes in Bologna and cooking classes in Tuscany, visits to Siena, Greve in Chianti and Florence...
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In Emilia-Romagna & Piedmont
October Truffle Festival
One week indulgence of hands-on cooking of classic Italian recipes, a special visit at a Piemontese winery, a private cooking class and dinner with a Michelin-star Italian chef, stay in Alba for a private truffle hunt, attend Slow Food's Salone del Gusto in Torino, a fabulous bi-annual event for all food-and-wine lovers…
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