Italy Cooking Vacation


Italy Cooking Vacation
Italy cooking vacation provides unique vacation adventures of food, wine and cooking classes in Italy at exclusive and beautiful properties, private villas, farmhouses and residences selected for their location and charm. Each program of Italy cooking vacation includes excursions to both well-known and undiscovered areas including outside markets, villages and vineyards that are rich in culture and connected to the local people.

Italy cooking vacation programs take you into the life of Italian people and their passion for food and wine. We bring you into the daily life of artisans, wine producers, bread and pastry bakers and ceramic makers.

Rated by The Observer newspaper as one of the "Top 10 Cookery Schools in Europe", our Italy cooking vacation continues to be the most comprehensive hands on cooking experience available anywhere. The Observer describes our Italian culinary school as "the inspiring 7 day cookery course".

Our Italy cooking vacation offers a unique opportunity to experience at first hand authentic regional cooking techniques and recipes that have been developed and handed down over generations. Our culinary schools in Italy are located at the splendid Casa Ombuto and the magnificent Torre del Tartufo, both recently restored large Tuscan villas set in the beautiful and tranquil hills of the Casentino valley some 50km south of Florence, Italy. A truly wonderful setting for any Italy cooking vacation.

Italy Cooking Vacation
A week in our Italy cooking vacation at either Casa Ombuto or Torre del Tartufo will allow you to immerse yourself in the culture and lifestyle of Tuscany, and learn to cook real Italian dishes in a relaxed and friendly environment. You will learn the passion of the Italian kitchen and, importantly, have a lot of fun and enjoyment doing it. You will also enjoy the company and friendship of other like-minded people during your time at our Italy cooking vacation. Each course has its own charm, let Paola teach you her passion of the Traditional Tuscan cuisine at Casa Ombuto or let Franco Palandra show you what wonderful things you can make with truffles from Torre del Tartufo as the estate of this villa includes 2 hectares of Truffle land. Our Italy cooking vacations are from Saturday to Saturday in Casa Ombuto and Sunday to Sunday in Torre del Tartufo and include 4 elaborate hands-on cooking sessions with enough time to relax and enjoy the surroundings. A one-day excursion will be organized to visit a vineyard for wine tasting, as well as to a local producer of olive oil and there will be time for shopping. It is also possible to bring along a non-participating partner to our Italy cooking vacation who can spend the days sightseeing, or playing golf, and then rejoin the party for the evening meals.

If you are interested in learning how to cook dishes from not only Italy but other European countries then you should consider one of the Italian Mediterranean Cookery Courses that we now offer at our Italy cooking vacation. These Cookery Courses focus on dishes from Italy, Spain, France and North Africa to create healthy and delicious menus. These cookery courses are available for limited weeks only during 2005 so we advise you to book as soon as possible.

We offer you the perfect opportunity to learn to cook great Italian cuisine at an award winning Italy cooking vacation, or maybe to learn to Mediterranean, healthy and great tasting dishes on one of our Italian Mediterranean Cookery Courses in Italy. Whichever course you decide to take you will be sure of a warm welcome amongst like-minded people at our Italian culinary school at Casa Ombuto or Torre del Tartufo. You can find detailed information on itineraries, dates and prices for all the courses at our Italy cooking vacation here.

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