Tie on your aprons and join Chef Maria in our Mare e Monti ~ Mountains & Sea Amalfi Coast cooking class program and immerse yourself in an Italian culinary adventure! Learn to make traditional lasagne, ravioli, fresh fish, and delightful desserts guided by our Italian Mamma Maria in a warm, family setting. Explore the rich flavors of the Amalfi Coast while enjoying hands-on cooking classes, wine tastings, and a delightful Food Lover’s Tour. Prepare delicious full course lunches and dinners while you meet new friends and immerse into la dolce vita lifestyle with Chef Maria and her family on the Amalfi Coast.
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Join Chef Maria for farm-to-table cooking classes on the Amalfi Coast! Using fresh fruits and vegetables from her garden, During your stay, Shop with the Chef in the local village and learn about artisan mozzarella, salumi, bread, and limoncello with tastings along the way.
After shopping, tie on your apron and head to the kitchen to start your cooking adventure. Begin with antipasto, followed by fresh pasta and sauce, a main course, and dessert. Experience the freshest seafood, including clams and shrimp, along with grass-fed meat and free-range chicken. Prepare Maria’s special recipes for zeppole a lemon and walnut cake, using nuts from her garden.
Visit Maria’s husband Umberto’s organic vegetable garden, where you’ll find zucchini, fava beans, peas, eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, chili peppers, basil, and parsley. Pick fresh vegetables and fruits for your cooking class. The family also grows grapes in their vineyard and makes homemade wine.
Discover the authentic taste of the Amalfi Coast with Chef Maria’s farm-to-table cooking experience.
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Amalfi Coast Accommodation
Check into the luxurious Villa Palazzo and unwind with breathtaking sea views from every bedroom terrace or balcony. Each spacious room features cool terracotta tiles, a private bathroom with a shower and hairdryer, WiFi, and a TV for your convenience. Start your day with a delicious breakfast, including coffee, teas, fresh fruit, yogurt, bread, Maria’s homemade cakes, farm-fresh eggs, and jams. Enjoy your breakfast outdoors in the beautiful garden, surrounded by chestnut and fig trees, jasmine, and lavender. The air is filled with the delightful scents of Maria’s herb garden, where rosemary, mint, and basil grow abundantly.
Agerola
Known as Piccola Svizzera, Little Switzerland, and Grande Terrazza sul Mare, the Great Terrace Overlooking the Sea, the small town of Agerola is nestled between the Lattari Mountains above the Amalfi Coast. Approximately 600 meters above sea level, Agerola offers lush green hills and stunning views of the Amalfi Coast.
A haven for nature lovers, Agerola is famous for its Walk of the Gods hiking path. This trail offers breathtaking views where the sea meets the sky, with terraces lined with lemon groves. Enjoy the tranquility of the pathways, often accompanied by herds of goats or donkeys carrying supplies.
An easy drive to Amalfi, Ravello, Positano, Vietri, Praiano, Sorrento, Capri, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Paestum, and Naples, Agerola serves as a perfect base for exploring nearby attractions.
Amalfi Coast Cooking Classes
All cooking classes take place in Maria’s country kitchen and include the preparation of a full menu, antipasto, fresh pasta with seasonal sauce, main course and dessert. Discover more about the area’s wonderful local products and cooking traditions, and watch carefully as Maria guides you through lessons on handmade pasta, delicious lasagne, and pasta with porcini mushrooms. Try your hand at preparing traditional veal dishes, chicken and rabbit roasted in lemon leaves, grilled beef, and sweets like cream-filled zeppole, walnut cake and ricotta and pear tart. Please note that the menus are samples and all menus depend on the availability of seasonal produce including the vegetables which are gathered fresh every day from the organic vegetable garden.
Amalfi Coast Cooking Classes
Join Chef Maria in the kitchen where you will prepare full menus starting with antipasto, fresh pasta with seasonal sauce, main course and dessert. Maria guides you through each hands-on cooking class using her family recipes. Following each cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was made in the class with local white or red wine.
Itinerary: 4 days, 3 nights
Day 1: Benvenuto & Welcome Dinner
• Pick-up and transfer to property.
• Check into your room, meet your hosts, and review your program.
• Sit out on the terrace and enjoy a Prosecco.
• Later in the evening, enjoy your Welcome Dinner featuring a Chef’s Tasting Menu featuring local fare including antipasto, fresh pasta and sauce, a main course, and dessert with local wine and caffe included.
Day 2: Artisan Mozzarella Producer and Amalfi Coast Cooking Class 1
• Breakfast is served.
• In the morning, visit to the traditional mozzarella producers in Agerola. Discover how they make the area’s delicious fior di latte and additional artisan cheese with tastings included.
• Lunch is on your own.
• Following your visit, return to Agerola.
• In the afternoon, join Chef Maria in the kitchen for your first hands-on cooking. Prepare traditional mare e monti, sea and land, antipasti, Neapolitan lasagne, caponata, a delicious bread and mozzarella salad and homemade babà with limoncello. Dinner follows and everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class with red or white wine and caffe included.
Day 3: Morning Food Trip To Local Limoncello Producer and Amalfi Cooking Class 2
• Breakfast is served.
• An early morning departure to a local limoncello producer where you will discover the secrets to making this much loved local liqueur that is made with the fragrant Amalfi Coast lemons.
• Take time for lunch is on your own with suggestions provided
• In the afternoon, join Chef Maria for your second hands-on cooking class. Learn to prepare zeppole agerolesi, paccheri pasta with eggplant and provolone del monaco. Learn how to prepare chicken with Amalfi Coast lemon and potatoes. For dessert, mix and bake torta di noci, a delicate walnut cake made with nuts from her garden. Dinner follows and everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class with local white or red wine and caffe included.
Day 4: Arrivederci
• Breakfast is served
• Check out and arrivederci!
Program Includes:
- 3 nights, 4 days accommodation in in a villa palazzo property. Click to View!
- Daily breakfast and maid service.
- Welcome Dinner featuring a Chef’s Tasting with a full course menu of local fare featuring antipasto, fresh pasta and sauce, a main course, and dessert with local wine and caffe included.
- 2 Hands-on cooking classes including antipasto, fresh pasta and sauce, a main course, and dessert with local wine and caffe included; followed the food prepared in the cooking class with wine, water, dessert and coffee included.
- Excursion to artisan mozzarella maker with English-speaking guide and tastings included.
- Excursion to to artisan limoncello maker with with English-speaking guide and tastings included.
- Round trip transfers to and from Naples Airport or Train to property.
- Cooking Vacations Welcome Bag with Chef’s apron, Prosecco and recipe booklet.
- A copy of Lauren’s cookbook, “It’s A Dream Place – Stories & Recipes of Food, Love and the Amalfi Coast.”
Program Prices
$2,295 per person, based on 2 guests.
2024 Dates: You can check in and start your cooking program any day of the week. Rates are subject to change based on currency exchange. 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.
