Chef Lucia In Sorrento™

Join Chef Lucia and her family in Sorrento for a week of hands-on cooking, learning and enjoying Neapolitan foods that has captured food lover’s hearts since The Grand Tour.

Set in a country garden, Chef Lucia will lead you through hands-on classes using classic Neapolitan recipes in her kitchen. Favorites include, Panzarotti, Gnocchi, Ravioli, Pesce All’Acqua Pazza-crazy fish, and always with a sweet ending like Babà Rum, Tiramisu and Limoncello. Chef Lucia is passionate about cooking as she shares her recipe book and know how for authentic cooking in Sorrento. Learn to make local Mozzarella the artisan way with fresh milk and the gifted hands of the artisan cheese maker. Blend, twist, braid and shape the delicious cheese into tasty bites. Basil, first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil with a dash of sea salt turns your fresh hand-made Mozzarella turns into a delicious Caprese! Buon Appetito!

Cooking Classes

You will learn how to prepare an antipasto, pasta or Risotto, main entre of fish, veal, chicken or vegetarian in each class under the guidance of Lucia. Learn in hands-on classes the technique of cooking Italian! Everyone enjoys the foods made in class following, toast with local red or white wine. Dessert and café included. Lucia grew up in the kitchen cooking for her family, so cooking is a natural for her! Step into her country kitchen, tie on your aprons and learn her family recipes!

Classes are always in English, and include local, season produce. Everyone enjoys the food prepared in class following.

Regional Italian Cooking Classes

Your program includes five days and four nights with three hands-on cooking lessons led by Chef Lucia. Her secret for success is keeping it simple and cooking with fresh local seasonal produce. The classes are intimate, limited to small groups, allowing Lucia to give maximum attention to each participant. Everyone joins in and enjoys the foods prepared in the kitchen while toasting with a good glass of local white or red wine.

Outdoor Market Shopping With The Chef!

Join Lucia for an early morning market tour through the colorful marketplace of Sorrento as she shops for fresh ingredients for the cooking class. From the bread maker, fruit seller, fish monger to butcher,-you will experience how Italians shop. Return to the kitchen and use the ingredients purchased at the market for your hands-on cooking class.

Each class menu varies from day to day depending on the fruits, vegetables, fish or meat available at the market. In each class, you will learn how to make antipasti, pasta, a fish, meat or vegetarian secondo and dessert. Each cooking class is followed by lunch or dinner with the foods that were prepared in class. Buon Appetito!

Sorrento

The Sorrento Peninsula is part of a land that has been enchanting travelers, explorers, emperors, artists and poets for centuries. The Amalfi Coast, or la Costiera Amalfitana, is a beautiful 50-kilometer stretch of mountainous coastline situated on the Sorrento peninsula between Sorrento and Salerno, just south of Naples, in the region of Campania. It has been a world-class destination for centuries with its dazzling white cliffs and stunning coastline. Sorrento, the city of song, Limoncello and Tarantella, is a city with beautiful gardens, piazzas, lemon trees grapevines and olive trees.

Sorrento is a walking city, so by foot, you will be able to discover its lively main square-Piazza Tasso, the tiny old-world cobblestone streets, its majestic churches, museums and tempting ice cream shops. Sorrento’s restaurant scene booms, with world-class Michelin Stars to small family-owned trattorie serving up the best food you will ever taste.

Sorrento’s perfect geographic location make it a great for location for day trips to Capri, Positano, Ravello and the Amalfi Coast. The beautiful Island of Ischia is also just a boat ride away from its marina. Sorrento, an area blessed by the warm year-round sun, is the land known for red cherry tomatoes, Mozzarella, Pizza, and delicious Italian pastry.

Walk out your door and into the colorful streets of this ancient seaside town. Shops of Limoncello and artisans making chocolates, along with leather crafters, wine shops, cheese markets, and bakeries line the narrow cobblestone streets. Stop for a creamy gelato, or a steamy cappuccino, at the Fauno Bar in Piazza Tasso, where people from around sip Cappuccino and watch the world go by. By night, the main street, Corso Italia, is pedestrian only and people of all ages stroll while eating gelato until the late hours. Take time to visit their giant pastry display and get acquainted with the many dolce this quaint café makes. Award winning pastries of almond biscotti, Caprese, and baba are a some of the local treats.

Accommodations

The sea front property is located in Sorrento and offers large bedrooms with balconies overlooking the Bay Of Naples, Vesuvius and old Port Sorrento. All rooms have private baths, TV and air conditioning. A breakfast buffet is served each morning and Internet is available. There is a beautiful swimming pool, solarium and gardens. few steps from the property takes you to Marina Grande below where you can take a dip in the clear blue sea.

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Itinerary ~ 5 Days, 4 Nights

Day One: Welcome

Arrival & Check in.
• Upon your arrival, you are welcomed with an aperitivo. Relax and unwind. Take a moment to read over your information pack and your itinerary for the week.• After the introduction, walk to the Coast just a few steps away and take in the panoramic view of the Bay of Sorrento, Vesuvius, and the Islands of Capri.
• In the evening, dine on a Chef’s Tasting Menu at our favorite Ristorante. Dinner included, wine and beverages at a surcharge.

Day Two: Marketplace Visit & Cooking Class 1

• Breakfast is served.
• Cooking Class 1: Early morning visit to the marketplace as you shop with the Chef for ingredients for the cooking class.
• Tie on your apron and head into the kitchen with Chef Lucia for a cooking class learning a variety of traditional Neapolitan dishes. After the class, everyone enjoys the foods made in the kitchen, local wine and beverages included.
• Take the afternoon to relax by the pool or visit Piazza Tasso at the Tasso Café for a drink. You can also visit Marina Piccola, just a few steps away, where you can take one of the many boats to Capri, Positano, Ischia, Amafli or Naples. Each location is a perfect day trip for sightseeing, shopping or visiting the many churches.
• Dinner on your own. Suggestions provided upon request.

Day Three: Cheese Making Visit~Cooking Class 2

• Breakfast is served.
• Cooking Class 2: Visit an artisan cheese maker and learn how to make a variety of local cheeses including, Mozzarella, Ricotta and more.
• Return to the kitchen for a morning of chopping, mixing, kneading, and sautéing for your second hands-on cooking class with Chef Lucia. Learn a variety of traditional Neapolitan dishes, based on the season.
• After the class, everyone enjoys the food that were made in class. Toast with a local glass of red or white wine.
• Limoncello Making~ The area of Sorrento is the most famous producer of Limoncello and taste flavors including Limoncello, crema di Limoncello, mandarin orange and a variety of liquors made with the fruits and nuts of the season.
• Return in the late afternoon.
• Free evening. Suggestion-the Tarantella Theatre Show, for an evening of music and dance featuring traditional Neapolitan music with a talented cast of singers.

Day Four: Cooking Class 3 & Amalfi Coast

• Breakfast is served.
• Cooking Class 3: Chef Lucia leads your third hands-on cooking classes featuring a variety of traditional Neapolitan dishes.
• After the class, everyone eats the fruits of their labor together from what was prepared in class, local wine and beverages included. Classes are approximately three hours long.
• Amalfi Coast Excursion: Your private driver whisks you along the winding Amalfi Coast. Visit the pastel colored town of Positano; onto Amalfi, the historical town known for eggplant and chocolate gelato; and then off to the high roads of Ravello, land of romance and music.

Day Five: Departure

• Breakfast is served.
• Departure transfer to Naples Airport or Train Station. Arrivederci!