I can tailor make any 1, 2, 3 or more day Cooking Vacations' program for a single or group. If you would like a 1 day or an estende week, please call Lauren at 1.800.912.1152 or 1.617.247.4112, in Italy at +39 339.604.29.33 or email at info@cooking.vacations.com.
Join Chefs Salvatore, Francesco and Raffaele as they team up in the kitchen for an authentic hands-on cooking course in Neapolitan cooking. Learn about the treasures of this region’s cooking style using local fresh organic fish, meat, fruits and vegetables of the Amalfi Coast. Neapolitan cooking is a classic, and this class gives you its history over time. Cook traditional Neapolitan foods, while you learn how the tomato made its way into Italian cooking, and where and when pasta was first invented. Join us for an authentic, fun-filled class and learn how to make a selection of seasonal recipes such as Pezzogna all’Acqua Pazza, fresh local white fish slow-cooked with herbs, potatoes and sweet cherry tomatoes; Linguine Con Gamberetti & Fiori di Zucca, fresh bright orange squash flowers sautéed with pink baby shrimp served with linguine; Boscaiola, Neapolitan pasta with mushrooms, Tonno, fresh local tuna simmered with capers & olives; Manzo Con Foglie di Limone, filet of beef layered with lemon leaves on a skewer; Involtini Di Melanzane, stuffed eggplant rolls; or Tiramisu’ al Limone, our Chef’s signature dessert using local Amalfi lemons.
The cooking class is hosted in our professional kitchen set in Positano, in the seaside village set on the Amalfi coast. This cooking class focuses on the healthy Mediterranean diet, using our own 100% Extra Virgin, first-cold-pressed, Olive Oil. The warm Mediterranean climate, fertile volcanic soil and sea breeze provide the perfect conditions for healthy abundant produce in southern Italy.
Tie on your apron and get cooking for Neapolitan Cooking in Positano with old-world recipes & new techniques including the preparation of an antipasto, first course (such as pasta or risotto), second course and dessert. After your class enjoy the wonderful lunch or dinner prepared in class. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
Join our team of Chefs in Positano for a lemon-infused cooking class using the sweet Positano lemons famous on the Amalfi Coast.
An informal discussion on the secrets of cooking with lemons is provided. Our Chefs will take you through a hands-on class featuring recipes from our Lemon Lifestyle program, with an accent on the healthy Mediterranean diet. Our professional kitchen is a magical workplace as our chefs show you how to use lemons in the most delicate and creative ways.
Save your appetite and get cooking in this unique & informative cooking class, which includes facts on the history of lemons and their use, along with our Chefs’ traditional techniques and tricks of the kitchen. After your lesson, enjoy your lunch or dinner with the foods prepared in class. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
This class features our Lemon Lifestyle menu, using the bright yellow organic Positano lemons that grow on the Amalfi Coast. Learn how to make a lemon-inspired menu including an array of fresh vegetables drizzled with lemon oil or a lemon infused antipasto; pasta served with a delicate lemon sauce; grilled fish wrapped in lemon leaves and for a sweet ending~ torta di limone for dessert.
Hands-on cooking class includes the preparation of an antipasto, first course (such as pasta or risotto), second course and dessert. Toast with a great glass of homemade Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
Tie on your apron and get your rolling pin for a hands-on class in fresh pasta making. Our class, led by our team of Chefs in Positano, is for those who are pasta lovers at heart. Learn how to make fresh pasta from start to finish, and mix, roll and shape the delicate pastas of this region into mouth-watering creations. Our chefs share their Italian philosophy and practice of making just the right sauce for just the right pasta. In Italy each pasta pairs up with a different fresh sauce, and with over 1000 pastas in Italy, this is just a sampling. Our Chefs will give you direction on the basic styles and sauces that go into making each kind- stuffed, rolled, or twisted- for the freshest and tastiest Ravioli, Gnocchi, or Scialatielli. This hands-on class features fresh pasta making techniques, as well as sauce preparation including cherry tomatoes, lemon sauce, fresh seasonal vegetables, fish or meat. This class and its cooking techniques are based on the healthy Mediterranean diet. Class includes preparation of 2 pastas & 2 sauces.
Tie on your apron and get cooking for a fun-filled pasta-making class with wonderfully creative recipes, while picking up our Chefs’ advanced techniques and tricks of the kitchen. Everyone eats the foods prepared in class. After your class, linger and enjoy the pasta & foods made in class. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
Join us in Positano for a Market Visit & Food Lover’s Tour with a Cooking with our Chefs. This one-day class starts out with a walk highlighting all the best stops for food, produce, wine, pastry and cheese. As we make our way through this beautiful seaside village, we make tasty stops along the way, meet local producers of wine, cheese, bread and more, and learn about the seasonal fruits, vegetables, fish & cheese of the Amalfi Coast. Following the market visit-Food Lover's Tour, head to the kitchen where you will learn how to prepare the famed dishes of Positano. Your cooking class includes an antipasto, pasta and main dish, followed by lunch or dinner with the foods prepared in class.
Our Chefs share treasured family recipes and techniques, and use only seasonal ingredients and fresh herbs & spices from the local organic garden. Hands-on cooking class includes the preparation of an antipasto, first course (such as pasta or risotto), second course and dessert. Lunch or dinner follows with the foods prepared in class. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, included. Market tour starts promptly at 9am followed by hands-on cooking class with lunch or dinner after.
Join us for an early morning departure through the hillside of Positano for a cheese making visit. Learn how to make artisan Mozzarella and old-world cheese with our expert cheese makers. The family uses only the freshest milk, and then works it into a creamy cheese, weaving it into braids and twists. See the process then try your hand at creating artisan cheeses including Mozzarella, Provolone or Pecorino. Soft creamy fresh and aged cheeses are the final product. Tastings follow.
After, head into the kitchen to make a Neapolitan menu including some of the local artisan cheeses of the southern region. Antipasto, pasta, and main dish are included. Lunch or dinner follows and includes the foods prepared in class. Toast with a great glass of homemade Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
Join our professional pizzaiolo, Antonio, who will show you the technique and methods for making true Neapolitan pizza the old-world way. He mastered his craft with the best artisans in Italy, and at the Pizza Academy in Naples. Using a wood-burning pizza oven, he teaches his technique for rolling the dough into a perfect round pizza, cooking it at the ideal temperature, and turning the pizza just the right way. Learning to make pizza in Italy is an art, and our Pizzaiolo shows you just what it takes to create the perfect pizza.
You will learn how to measure and mix the ingredients into a perfect pizza dough; see how it rises, “punch” it, let it rise again, roll it, and “drive” it. Following the prep, you will see how to wood-oven bake it to perfection!
This class is a popular choice for those wanting to learn how to make a “real Neapolitan Pizza,” and for the professional pizza-maker who wants to expand their art & technique to bring back to their own kitchen. The class is also great for children, as Antonio takes you through step-by-step. hands-on cooking class includes preparation of pizza, antipasto and dessert. After class everyone eats the pizza prepared in class. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
Our kitchen for this special pizza workshop includes a wood-burning brick oven.
Join Chef Raffaele for a rainbow of tastes and colors in a special dessert, gelato & sorbetto making class in the heart of Positano.
Start with fresh milk and local Mediterranean fruit, as Chef Raffaele takes you step-by-step through the artisan craft of making creamy sweet gelato and sweet seasonal sorbetto. Kiwi, lemon, watermelon, chocolate, Baci, hazelnut, chestnut and more are just a sampling of the flavors. Bake and make local regional desserts including Capri Cake, Lemon Tiramisu, or the famous chocolate eggplant lasagna. Give your sweet tooth a treat in this workshop where you will be making local desserts and natural gelato & sorbetto by the mounds. Tastings follow the informative, fun and hands-on class which focuses on the dessets or the ice-cream making. This class is a great choice for children and adults. Family classes are kid, friendly, and one adult must be present. Adult classes are geared at a higher level.
Join us for an early morning departure through the back roads of the Sorrento & Positano hills, along the Amalfi Coast for a food trip that visits bread, cheese & wine artisans. Our Food Trip brings us first to “Signora’s” artisan bread shop. Here, you will see endless loaves of wood-burning, brick- oven-baked bread, sugar biscotti, pizza & focaccia on the shelves. Take out your note pad as we learn about the different kinds of breads with Signora. Next stop, we visit an artisan cheese maker. Here we visit with artisans who braid and shape the soft cheese mixture. Give your hand a try then taste the delicate hand-made cheeses from Mozzarella, smoked Provolone & Pecorino. Next stop is Signore Giuseppe’s cantina, where we tour his production of assorted wines, including Aglianico, Falanghina, and others. Tastings included. This is an artisan food trails tour and does not include any cooking classes.
Join us overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea on our villa terrace and learn how to make Limoncello. The Positano lemons used in making authentic DOP Limoncello, blossom and bloom four times per year. We start off the class with an informal discussion on the history behind the lemons and how they made their way on the Amalfi Coast. Learn our secrets on cooking with the Amalfi Coast lemons and take away with you our Lemon Lifestyle Recipe Booklet.
Get peeling and watch the famous lemon liqueur come alive before your eyes. As the lemons bathe in the magic mixture, we introduce you to our Virgin, First-Cold-Pressed, Olive Oils including natural Lemon, Orange, Napolitano, Puttanesca and Funghi. Our master oil maker shares old-world family recipes using organic basil, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and capers. This informal discussion includes tastings of oil and limoncello.
Join Chef Angela, known as Mamma, in the heart of Amalfi at her private home kitchen for a cooking class that retraces the history of Amalfi Coast cuisine! Angela’s classes are held in her home, set in the heart of Amalfi, at the top of a historic palazzo. Weekday classes include a hands-on cooking experience followed by a romantic dinner served on the terrace. Angela, a warm Italian with a passion and love for cooking, welcomes you to her home and shares ancient recipes of Amalfi, “City On The Sea.”
Angela’s specialties include Bruschette al Pomodoro, Aglio e Basilico ~ Tomato, Garlic & Basil Bruschetta, or Alici Marinate ~ Fresh Marinated sweet Anchovies from the sea. First courses such as Spaghetti alla Puttanesca ~ Pasta With Olive & Caper Sauce, Paccheri Con Gamberetti E Zucchine ~ Local Pasta With Baby Shrimp & Zucchini, or Spaghetti Con Vongole E Frutti Di Mare ~ Pasta with local shellfish.
Angela’s second courses include vegetarian and meat such as Parmigiana Di Melanzane ~ Eggplant Parmesan, Carne Alla Pizzaiola~ Beef or veal filet Pizzaiola-style, or Involtini di Carne al Sugo ~ Neapolitan Braciole, which is rolled tender choice cut meat with slow stewed tomato sauce. Or, if fish is your preference, Totani E Patate~ Local Squid & Potatoes, Pesce All’Acqua Pazza ~ Local White Fish In ‘Crazy Water.’
End with a sweet dessert such as Crostata Di Frutta Primavera ~ Spring Fruit Tart, or Torta Di Baci Perugina ~ Perugina Bacio chocolate cake.
You will learn how to prepare traditional Southern Italian classics and Amalfi specialties from Angela’s Family Cook Book, followed by a romantic terrace dinner including the foods prepared in class. Hands-on cooking class includes the preparation of an antipasto, first course (such as pasta or risotto), second course and dessert. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine, and end with a sweet dessert, both included.
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