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Secret Garden™

1 Day Cooking Classes, Food Lover’s Walks & Market Tours ~ Positano, Capri, Amalfi & Ravello™

Discover the food, art & wine of the Amalfi Coast in any one of our one day tours or cooking classes in Positano, Capri, Amalfi and Ravello. Visit a limoncello maker, a cheese artisan, or paint with a local artist, and experience the food, wine and culture of this magical place! Learn the history of delicious cooking, walk through Positano, Amalfi and Ravello on a Food Lover’s Tour, while tasting and sipping your way through the gorgeous coastal towns. Our tours are highly specialised for the traveler at heart, and kept to small groups up to six guests.  Our Amalfi Coast cooking classes are authentic, delicious and fun!

Be An Italian Chef For The Day!
One Day Amalfi Coast Cooking Classes, Market Tours & Food Lover’s Walks

Cooking Classes Amalfi Coast – Positano – Capri – Amalfi – Ravello – are two and a half to three hours, and may run more as we are in Italy, with lunch or dinner following. Groups are kept to an intimate size from 2 to 6 guests and everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the class to follow.  Local wine and water included.

We can tailor make any 1, 2, 3 or more day Cooking Vacations’ program for a single guest or group. If you would like a one day activity or an extended week, please call Lauren at 1.800.916.1152 or 1.617.247.4112 or email at info@cooking-vacations.com 

Neapolitan Cooking Class In Positano

Italian Mamma – Traditional Southern Italian Menu

Join Chefs Rosa, Filomena, Fortunata and Raffaele as they team up in the kitchen for an authentic hands-on cooking classes in Positano preparing Neapolitan recipes. Learn about the treasures of this region’s cooking style using local fresh organic fish, meat, fruits and vegetables of the Amalfi Coast. Our chefs follow the farm-to-table way of life using in season produce and products.  Learn to cook Neapolitan cuisine, 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 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; Mozzarella con Foglie di Limone, Mozzarella cheese grilled with lemon leaves, and Involtini di Melanzane, stuffed eggplant rolls.  Neapolitan desserts are delicious – think – Torta Caprese, a flourless chocolate cake, or Tiramisual Limone, our Chef’s signature dessert using local Amalfi lemons.  All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen.

The Positano cooking class is hosted in our professional kitchen in the seaside village of Positano 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 microclimate for healthy abundant produce in southern Italy.

Tie on your apron and get cooking using Old World recipes and modern techniques preparing:  antipasti, first courses – fresh hand-made pasta and risotto, second courses and dessert.  Following the cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the kitchen.  Toast with a glass of Aglianico, red wine, or Falanghina, white wine, and a delicious Neapolitan dessert – delizia al limone, a delicate sponge cake soaked in limoncello and filled with yellow cooked cream or profiteroles or rum soaked Babà.

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Program Price: $255 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.

Cooking Lemon Lifestyles™ Positano

Cooking With Sfusato Amalfi Coast Lemons

Tie on your aprons and join Chefs Filomena, Raffaele and Giuseppe in Positano for a lemon-infused Italian cooking class using the sfusato Positano lemons famous on the Amalfi Coast.  The Lemon Lifestyles™ cooking class includes making mozzarella grilled on lemon leaves, gnocchi or tagliatelle in a creamy lemon, lemon risotto – toasted to perfection.  Lemon desserts are endless – think – lemon tiramisu and torta Caprese– an exclusive at Cooking Vacations.

An informal discussion on the secrets of cooking with the precious lemons is provided, then 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 and informative cooking class in Positano, which includes facts on the history of lemons and their use, along with our Chefs’ traditional techniques and tricks of the kitchen. After your cooking class everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class together.  Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.

Lemon Lifestyle Menu™

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. All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen.

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Program Price: $255 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning Classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.

Pasta Making Positano

Fresh Hand-Made Ravioli, Gnocchi, Scialatielli & Tagliolini

Tie on your apron and get cooking in our hands-on pasta making class. Our pasta making classes Positano, led by Chefs Filomena, Giuseppe, Raffaele and Raffaele in Positano, is for those guests who love Italian pasta.  Learn how to make fresh pasta from start to finish.  You will mix, roll and form the pasta dough into delicious ravioli, gnocchi or cavatelli – to name a few.  Our chefs also share their Italian recipes and philosophy of preparing seasonal sauces for each pasta because in Italy – each pasta has its own sauce.  There are over 1000 pastas in Italy!  This hands-on pasta making class features fresh pasta making techniques, as well as sauce preparation including cherry tomatoes, lemon sauce, fresh seasonal vegetables, along with fish or meat sauces too.  Recipes are based on the healthy Mediterranean diet. Each guest will prepare 2 pastas and 2 sauces with an antipasto and dessert!  A toast of local red or white wine is included.  All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen. After your cooking class everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class together.  Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.

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Program Price: $255 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.
*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Pizza-Making With Chef Antonio

In Positano

Knead, Roll Out & Spin Your Way To The Perfect Pizza

Join our professional pizzaioli, Chefs Fortunata, Raffaele and Antonio who will show you techniques and methods for making true Neapolitan pizza the Old World way.  Our chefs mastered their craft with the best artisans at the Pizza Academy in Naples.  They will teach you techniques for mixing the dough and rolling into a perfect round pizza along with preparing and selection seasonal toppings such as mozzarella cheese, salumi, tomatoes, grilled eggplant, zucchini, alici – small white bait – to name a few.  Learn how to “punch” the, and “drive” it too – just like a pro.  Following the prep, you will see how to bake it to perfection in a wood-burning! Learning to make pizza in Italy is an art, and our pizzaioli show you just what it takes to create the perfect pizza.

You will also make a traditional antipasto and dessert.  All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen. After your cooking class everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class together.  Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.

Wine Tasting Add On Option – Add on a wine tasting with your pizza class and learn about 3 exclusive wines of the area and how they pair with pizza!  Additional price vary once you select the wine with our sommelier, based on 2 guests.

*Our pizza making class on the Amalfi Coast is available with a wood-burning brick oven or a professional baking oven please let us know your preference of oven on your Reservation Form in Food Notes.

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Program Price: $255 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.
*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.

Italian Pastry Making with Chef Filomena

Fresh Hand-Made Neapolitan Pastry & Desserts

Torta di pera, Sicilian cannoli, semifreddo al torroncino, delizia al limone, profiteroles, torta di Caprese are some of Chef Filomena’s pastries in our 1 day class.

Chef Filomena is just as sweet as her pastry! Her talented hands using seasonal, local ingredients turn ordinary ingredients into works of art. Learn about local pastry making, while participating in hands-on pastry and dessert classes with our Master Chef. Each class will show you techniques on local pastry making while learning the history of each one.  Classes are geared toward each participant’s ability and dessert tastings are including following each cooking class. All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen.

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Program Price: $355 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Master Advanced Amalfi Coast Cooking Class

Advanced Hands-On Cooking Classes In Positano

Award winning Executive Chefs Raffaele and Filomena take the lead in this Master Cooking Class for the advanced home cook and chefs in our professional kitchen. This advanced class includes hands-on chopping, slicing, dicing and cooking seasonal foods with a profound understanding of tradition. Using high quality ingredients and precision technique you will be creating antipasti, pasta, risotto, main courses, pastries & desserts, and artisan breads.

Our professional Executive Chefs take their skills from the professional sector to their kitchen for this advanced cooking experience. Menus include meat, fish and vegetarian.

Hailed as the Volcanos of ideas in the kitchen, Chefs Raphael and Filomena, have a passion for perfection and follow the farm-to-table philosophy.  This Master Class offers a kitchen challenge, while learning to create foods that look like art with Italy’s two young rising star Chefs. The recipes can easily be recreated at home.  Following the cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the class together. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.

All menus vary by season to use the best fresh ingredients. Menus can be tailored to accommodate food allergies, diet needs and vegetarian too. Menus and recipes change when you sign up for more than one.  All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen.

Program Includes:
  • Master hands-on cooking class followed by lunch or dinner with the food that was prepared in the class.  A toast of local wine included, with additional wines, beverages, after-dinner liqueur and caffè available at a surcharge.

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Program Price: $355 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


The Big Fish!

A Full Course Italian Cooking Class Featuring Local Mediterranean Fish

Join our team of Chefs Filomena, Raffaele and Giuseppe in the sea side town of Positano for Big Fish menu featuring local Mediterranean fish recipes. The hands-on fish only cooking class teaches you how to clean the various local fish and then prepare transforming ingredients into delicious lunch and dinner.  You will make an antipasto, fresh pasta with seafood, a main fish course and dessert – Mediterranean fish are light, white and clean tasting – think orata, pezzogna, dentice, pesce San Pietro, easy to prepare and healthy for the heart.  Classes are hands-on and feature local seasonal ingredients.  All menus vary by season using farm-to-table ingredients.  Following the cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the class together. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.

Imagine learning how to cooking these delicious fish for an Italian Christmas Eve, La Vigilia, making tortino di alici, tonno scattato, pasta con frutti di mare, vongole and funghi porcini, pesce all’acqua pazza, calamari and olives.   

Menus can be tailored to accommodate food allergies and diet needs. All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen.

Program Includes
  • Hands-on cooking class featuring the local Mediterranean fish from the Amalfi Coast.  Each guest will prepare a fish based antipasto, fresh hand-made pasta with fish and sauce, a main course of fish and a traditional Neapolitan dessert.
  • Following the cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the class together.  Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.                                                     

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Program Price: $355 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.

Artisan Bread Making™

Mix, Knead & Bake Italian Breads

Join our professional Chefs in a hands-on artisan bread making class where you will learn techniques on how to mix the various types of flours and ingredients, then shape loaves, and bake – while learning about the importance of oven temperatures. Our expert chefs share specialty bread recipes along with recipes for bread with nuts, olives, cheese, vegetables and even prosciutto. Learning to make artisan bread is an art and our chefs show you how!

Bread, like all food in Italy, changes with the region. Along the Amalfi Coast, traditional bread includes: grissini, panini, focaccia, taralli, pane con olive, noci, fennel seeds and multi grains, gluten free, pizza rustica (bite-size breads stuffed with ham, cheese and vegetables), ciambella, pagnotta and pane cafone. Holiday breads such as Colomba di Pasqua and Panettone di Natale are also included in the bread making class when in season.

Following the cooking class, everyone enjoys the bread that was prepared in the class together with cheese and prosciutto. Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red or Falanghina, white, wine.  Wine is included.  All of the recipes can easily be recreated in our home kitchen.

Program Includes

  • Hands-on artisan bread baking class followed by tastings of the bread made in class with cheese and wine included.

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Program Price: $355 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of the week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Sfogliatella Making – The Art of Making Neapolitan Pastry™

Join our professional Pastry Chef, Filo, who will teach you the fine art of making Sfogliatelle. This speciality baking class will show you technique, method and steps of preparing the delicious Sfogliatella Santa Rosa. Using high quality farm-fresh local ingredients, mix, knead and roll the dough that will transform into delicate and the crispy shell-shaped pastry filled with cooked cream and orange zest.

This delicate and delicious pastry, which is well-known and available in pastry shops along the Amalfi Coast, originated in the Monastery of Santa Rosa in the early 1700s. The pastries were first made by the nuns, the pastry is so delicious that their popularity soared turning them into the most popular traditional Neapolitan dessert.  Following the baking class, enjoy the sfogliatelle made in class with caffè, cappuccino or tea.

Program Includes

  • Hands-on cooking class learning the treasured art of making sfogliatelle followed by enjoying the pastry with with caff, cappuccino or tea included.
  • Chef’s apron and recipe included.

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Program Price: $355 per person, based 2 people.
Morning Classes start at 9:30am.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Positano Food Lover’s Tour

Fish Vender, Market Place, Enoteca, Limoncello & Landmarks

Taste Your Way Through Positano!

Join us in Positano and discover the food, wine and history of this beautiful town on the sea with our English-speaking guide – in our Positano Food Lover’s Landmark Tour.  Follow the cobblestone walkways with stops along the way while learning about this old fishing village, Neapolitan pizza, pasta and gelato.  We’ll visit the local fishermen, fruit and vegetable artisans and bakery for an introduction on Neapolitan desserts like Caprese, Capri cake, sfogliatella and delizia al limone.

Discover the local sfusato lemons, their importance in cooking and how they’re used to make limoncello.  Tastings along the way including.  Pass by the meat market and discover artisan salumi and cheeses.  Visit the famous pastry boutique brimming with Neapolitan desserts – all while soaking up the beauty of Positano, the Pearl of the Amalfi Coast.

Our Food Lover’s Tour takes you through Positano – once a Roman seaside resort turned sleepy fishing village rediscovered after World War II.  Learn about farm-to-table fruits, vegetables and produce used in the Mediterranean diet and pick up some cooking tips too.  Then, we’ll stop along the way, while questions are answered and new friends are made.  As our tour continues, pass by the home where John Steinbeck once lived while he wrote “Positano,” and see on coast, Italian filmmaker, Franco Zeffirelli’s villa, now a 5 Star luxury resort.  Join us and discover the beauty of Positano while enjoying tastings along the way!!!

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Program Price: 395E per group based on 2 people with food tastings included.  Additional guests 65E per person.
Food Lovers’ Tour stats at 10am or 4:30pm and is 3 hours.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions.

*If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost. Products on the tour may be purchased and or shipped for personal use. Due to careful attention to food allergies, products for the cooking class are not purchased during the tour.


Amalfi Coast Mozzarella & Limoncello Tasting Tour™

Mozzarella Cheese & Limoncello Tour With Tastings On The Amalfi Coast

Mozzarella Cheese & Limoncello Tour With Country Lunch On The Amalfi Coast

Join us on our Mozzarella and Limoncello Tour Amalfi Coast and discover the beautiful lemons and limoncello.  Your private driver will pick you up at your hotel for an early morning departure from Positano,  Along the way, take in the breathtaking views of the landscape of Positano and the Amalfi Coast where mountains and sea meet, and pastel color houses hang on a vertical terrain.  See limoncello and mozzarella being made, tastings along the tour with a country lunch included.

We continue through winding green hills and to this farm land where you will discover the art of Mozzarella, old-world cheese and Sorrento limoncello making with our expert artisan cheese maker, Il Signor and his family.  They have carried on the tradition for almost 100 years and continue to produce local cheese by hand made from the milk taken from the cows on his farm,  Watch as they magically turn milk into creamy cheese, weaving it into braids and twists and rounds. Tour the garden, farm and studio workplace, where artisans are busy at work.  The family also grows their own natural lemons and fruit, and makes delicious jams and limoncello.  Watch as they transform sfusato lemons into delicios limoncello.

Learn the history of the Amalfi Coast sfusato lemons on our Sorrento Limoncello Tour and how they are made into limoncello.  Learn how limoncello making with each lemon is hand-peeled, cut and put into alcohol, followed by a limoncello tasting.  Il Signor follows the COVAL way of growing the prized organic lemons, which are hand-picked freshly every day, then transforms them into limoncello, marmalade, citrus confections and panettone at Christmas time. The tour also includes our Sorrento Limoncello Tour and Amalfi Coast Limoncello Tour Book filled with lemon recipes – with the recipe for limoncello, cheese and other regional recipes from Positano and the Amalfi Coast.

Join us for our Limoncello Tour Amalfi Coast and Sorrento Limoncello tour experience to learn the art of Mozzarella and limoncello with your private driver.

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Program Price
855E per group of two guest including limoncello visit, mozzarella making tour with a country lunch and wine included.  Private driver for 6 hour tour to and from your property included.  Pick up towns include Positano, Praiano or Sorrento.

For Single Guests: If you are traveling on your own, please call us for the best group price. We are happy to welcome you into an already scheduled group.


Neapolitan Desserts, Gelato & Sorbetto

Capri Cake, Lemon Tiramisu, Chocolate Eggplant Lasagna
Creamy Gelato, Sorbetto & Peach Bellinis

Tie on your apron with Chef Raff for a Positano dessert making experience learning how to make gelato, semifreddo and sorbetto using farm-to-table ingredients.

Start with fresh milk and local Mediterranean fruit – think lemons, citrus and mint from the garden – then, follow the chef step-by-step through the artisan craft of making creamy gelato, semifreddo and 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.  Following the gelato making experience, everyone enjoys the food that was made in the Amalfi Coast cooking class with coffee, tea or cappuccino to follow.

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Program Price: $255 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Amalfi & Ravello Food Lover’s Landmark Tour

Experience the Fish Market, Cheese Shop, Pastry Maker, Limoncello & Landmarks

Taste Your Way Through Amalfi & Ravello!

Join our professional guide for our authentic Amalfi & Ravello Food Lover’s Landmark Tour  learning about the local cuisine, history and culture while tasting artisan foods along the way.  Discover Amalfi and Ravello, two characteristic towns on the Amalfi Coast, while soaking up the culture and discovering the story of its cuisine, people and past.  Walk along cobblestone streets, to food shops and alleys including  the fish market, enoteca and famous historic pastry maker.  You’ll learn about La Sfogliatella Santa Rosa, the famous pastry made by mistake thanks to the nuns or the story of ancient fishermen and their recipe for Acqua Pazza, Fish in Crazy Water.  Artisan tastings are included along the way.  After Amalfi, continue to Ravello – discover the piazza spilling with caffès, learn about Humphrey Bogart who visited often, Gore Vidal who became a resident and others who came and went and left their marks – Greta Garbo and Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis.  Giovanni Boccacci scribed his famous Decameron from Ravello, Richard Wagner composed the opera Parsifal in 1880, and D.H. Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1927.  During your visit choose to visit Villa Rufolo or Villa Cimbrone and the Terrazza dell’Infinito.  Stroll through Medieval gardens, piazzas and pathways and medieval landmarks while learning about the invaders, kings and queens, writers and movie stars who lived here.  Experience this full immersion Food Lover’s Landmark tour of food, culture and history of the Amalfi Coast

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Program Price: 395E per group, based on 2 people with food tastings included.  Additional guests 65E per person.
Food Lovers’ Tour stats at 10am or 4:30pm and is 3 hours.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.  If you opt to visit a museum on this tour, museum tickets are not included in the tour price.


Limoncello & Dessert Making Experience

Learn To Make Limoncello & Limoncello Desserts

Join us by the Tyrrhenian Sea in sunny Positano and learn how to make Limoncello. The Positano lemons, grown locally on the terraced hills, and 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 along with our Lemon Lifestyle recipe book.  This cooking experience includes making limoncello and two limoncello scented desserts along with Lauren’s Lemon Lifestyle recipe book.

Get peeling and watch the famous lemon liqueur come alive before your eyes. As the lemons bathe in the mix, learn about the many different ways you can use limoncello in cooking.  Following the preparation of the limoncello and lemon and or limoncello desserts, everyone enjoys the limoncello and desserts that were made in the cooking class.  This Amalfi Coast cooking class is an authentic fun-filled and delicious experience!!!

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Program Price: $255 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning Classes start at 9:30am or 10:00am and Afternoon Classes start at 4:00pm.  Times vary depending on the day of week.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Cooking On Capri ~ Chef Salvatore’s Family Kitchen™

Traditional Caprese Cooking Class~1 Day

Join Chef Salvatore, along with Signore Lucia and Anna in our Cooking On Capri tour. Chef Salvatore leads in hands-on cooking in his Mediterranean kitchen creating healthy cuisine prepared with seasonal products and garden fresh produce. Tradition is key in the kitchen as you will prepare such favorites as zucchini flowers stuffed with ricotta, hand made ravioli, grilled fish and chocolate Caprese!

Chef Salvatore’s Mediterranean kitchen is host to your hands-on cooking class, located at his family property on beautiful Capri. He will lead you through Neapolitan traditions with menus that change with the seasons. Tie on your apron and roll out ravioli capresi, prepare pesce al limone, torta caprese, and limoncello in an authentic hands-on experience featuring the cuisine of Capri. Special menu requests such as gluten free or vegetarian are available.

Salvatore starts out each day with a visit to his garden where he picks fresh fruits and vegetables. Signor Paolo the local fisherman brings his treasures from the sea each day, frattello Domenico produces naturally raised meats on the family’s farm, while the oven is hot baking island favorite desserts like delizia, torta and limone Caprese.

In each cooking class you will prepare an antipasto, pasta or ravioli or risotto, main course and dessert. Following the cooking class, everyone enjoys the foods that were prepared in class at the family table. Toast with a glass of wine, and end with a sweet Capri dessert!

“I don’t measure, I use my eyes, except in dessert making where precision is important,” he tells in a Neapolitan dialect. At sunrise he is out in the garden picking fresh mint, rosemary and giant yellow zucchini flowers. His Mediterranean garden is flowering with spring peas to poppies, summer roses and lavender, zucchini and eggplant, black cherries, oranges and lemons. “What’s in our garden is on our table,” he explains.

The hands-on Cooking Class begins at 10am or 4pm upon request. Lunch or dinner follows and includes the food that was made in the cooking class. Wine and recipe book included.

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Program Price: $325 per person, based on 2 guests.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.


Pizza-Making With Mamma Anna in Capri

Mix, Knead, & Bake The Perfect Neapolitan Pizza

Join Mamma Anna in her villa and garden on Capri for a true hands-on cooking experience where you will make authentic Neapolitan pizza, fried and baked, along with an antipasto and dessert.  Mamma Anna will show you how to make true Neapolitan pizza, hands-on mixing the dough, then rolling into perfect rounds for both baking and flash frying.

You will learn how to measure and mix the ingredients into a perfect pizza dough, watch it rise, then “punch and drive the dough”.  You will also create a delicious antipasto and dessert.  After the cooking class, everyone enjoys the antipasto, pizza and dessert prepared in class.  Toast with a great glass of Aglianico, red, or Falanghina, white, wine, soft drinks for the children, and end with a sweet dessert.  These recipes can easily be recreated at home.  Each guest receives a Chef’s shopping bag, apron and recipe book.

Wine Tasting Add On Option – Add on a wine tasting with your pizza class and learn about 3 exclusive wines of the area and how they pair with pizza!  Additional price vary once you select the wine with our sommelier, based on 2 guests.

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Program Price: $265 per person, based on 2 guests.
Morning Classes start at 10:00am and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.

*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. Transfers are an extra cost.

2024 Dates: This program is available throughout the year. Cooking classes are held every day. Rates are subject to change based on currency exchange. Private classes are available at a surcharge. Call for updated rates. Airfare not included. Group transfers for any cooking tour or tours that include transfers, are for the group and are not private. Transfers before, after or to another destination outside of your cooking tour are not included in the program price. If you would like to add on a private transfer or transfers, let us know and we will send you pricing.