Cooking Vacations takes you into the life of the locals sharing their culture, food, wine music and art in the one of a kind cooking programs. Cooking Vacations is the leading culinary tour company providing unique cooking classes throughout Italy. Accommodation is at private villas, palazzos, working farms/agriturismos.

The recipes in this one-week program feature the healthy Mediterranean diet. The Secret Garden program takes you through a culinary tour of the famed Amalfi Coast and its Mediterranean cooking style.

Each Chef welcomes you into their professional Mediterranean kitchen giving you an authentic cooking tour experience of different recipes, technique and styles. After each class, everyone eats the foods that were prepared in class. Wine, café and dessert included. This one-of-a-kind cooking class program brings you up close and into the kitchens of the Amalfi Coast’s most celebrated chefs - ideal for the real foodie. This food lover’s exclusive cooking tour brings you into our Mediterranean kitchens ~ in the center of Positano and in the countryside.

During the week, you will also learn the technique of cooking authentic Neapolitan pizza with Chef Rosa, a real pizzaiola from Naples. We take you to her country kitchen where she will start by teaching you how to make fresh organic hand-made Mozzarella, and prepare southern Italy’s sweet cherry tomatoes for a authentic Margherita Pizza ~ a pizza party lunch follows with the pizza made in class. This authentic pizza making class shares her secret recipe for mixing, kneading and stretching the best pizza dough and cooking it in a wood-burning oven for a perfect crispy crust. If pasta is your favorite, you can choose how to make hand-made pasta, instead. Fresh pasta making is an art in Italy, and Rosa shows you step-by-step the artisan way of making fresh pasta. Italy’s pastas range from gnocchi, ravioli, tortellini, cannelloni, to orecchiette,caserecci or garganelli, to name a few.

Some information on The Secret Garden:
Our charming Bed and Breakfast sits in a garden that is perched high on a cliff in a private estate. Each bedroom faces the sea and has its own private terrace with café table and chairs. Cool ceramic tiles line each bedroom. Each room also has a private bathroom and shower, mini bar, air conditioning, and daily maid service. Breakfast is served daily on the terrace café by the cappuccino bar under the flowered pergola. In the evening, Limoncello, wine and drinks are served at the terrace café.

Mediterranean gardens surround the property, with fig, kiwi, olive, lemon and orange trees, creating a truly magical setting. The entire garden, set under spectacular Bougainvilla, overlooks the sea and is a 10 minute walk from Positano’s center. Guests can pick fresh seasonal produce from the organic garden or stop and sun-bathe at the solarium. A panoramic view spans Li Galli Islands, the Amalfi Coast and Capri. The Tyrrhenian Sea is literally at your feet, and the Arienzo beach is just a 5 minute walk along the footpath. As the sun sets, sit back on your terrace and watch the world-class yachts and local fishing boats ripple through the Cerulean waters. Shuttle boats connect to Positano beach.

Price quoted is per person and includes:

• Eight days/Seven nights accommodations, based on double occupancy in private Bed & Breakfast.
• Daily breakfast at the terrace café’ & cappuccino bar.
• Three hands-on cooking classes, with lunch or dinner following. Wine included.
• Excursions to Amalfi & Ravello, stop at famous pastry maker~with private driver.
• Capri boat trip.
• Excursion to Pompeii with private driver (private tour guide $150 for 2 hours).
• Excursion through the hills of Positano and to our country farmhouse including Mozzarella cheese and pizza (or pasta) cooking class, lunch, wine, cafe & dessert included.
• Visit to the olive grove and olive oil tasting.
• Visit to lemon grove –Limoncello making class, demonstration & tasting.
• Welcome dinner.
• One outside lunch on the beach.
• Market visit to local markets and cheese artisan; discussion & tastings included.
• Visit to the Amalfi ceramic maker.
• Apron, recipe booklet and certificate given to each participant.
• Round trip transfers to Naples Airport or Naples Train station.

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