Great Tuscan classics, hearty healthy cooking, an old-world kitchen and a beautiful view from the hilltop town of Montepulciano, the location for our 1 day cooking class with our Chef. Tie on your aprons for hands on cooking classes and prepare traditional Tuscan recipes using farm-to-table ingredients. Each menu featuring classic cooking with Tuscan Nobile wine included.
Step into our Tuscan kitchen and get ready for a half-day of cooking creating delicious antipasto, fresh pasta and sauce, main courses and desserts. Menus vary based on the seasons and include Pici, a specialty Tuscan pasta served with a slow cooked ragù, handmade ravioli filled with ricotta and walnuts, and tagliatelle pasta with Porcini mushrooms. Learn how to prepare teak Florentine with stuffed artichokes or stuffed tomatoes. Vegetables and Tuscan beans including all’uccelletta is another Tuscan classic. Desserts are delicious and include cantuccini, traditional twice-baked biscotti that are dipped in Vin Santo, and Schiacciata all’uva, Tuscan cake with red grapes and rosemary to name just a few.
Following each cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class together with wine included. Cooking classes start at 9:30am and are approximately two and a half hours.
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Tuscan Pasta Making Class
Tie on your apron for a pasta making class in Tuscany! This speciality pasta making class shows you how to prepare fresh pastas with seasonal sauces using farm-to-table ingredients that change with the seasons. Learn to make pici, papadelle, ravioli or tagliatelle and creamy polenta with sauces and ragùs for each. Learn the preparation of a perfect polenta and a variety of ways to make it with seasonal sauces too. Our Tuscan pasta making class includes the preparation of two fresh pastas, or one pasta and polenta with two seasonal sauces.
Following each cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class together with wine included. Cooking classes start at 9:30am and are approximately two and a half hours.
Program Prices
$295 per person, based on based 2 guests.
Cooking classes start at 9:30am and last approximately two hours. After the cooking class, everyone enjoys the full course menu of Tuscan fare that was prepared in class with Tuscan wine included.
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.
* 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 provide a price and reserve the transfer(s) for you.
Traditional Cooking Class in Tuscany
Tie on your apron and get ready to prepare a full Tuscan menu from antipasto, handmade fresh pasta and dessert using farm-to-table ingredients from the fertile land of Montepulciano. Our chef forges, grows and selects the freshest local ingredients in the immediate area of Montepulciano – think spring artichokes, peas, fava beans, to autumn pumpkin, summer zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes. Learn how to use seasonal ingredients in hands-on Tuscan cooking classes to create a full course lunch or dinner that can be prepared in your home kitchen.
Following each cooking class, everyone enjoys the food that was prepared in the cooking class together with wine included. Cooking classes start at 9:30am and are approximately two and a half hours.Cooking classes start at 9:30am and last approximately two and a half hours.
Program Prices
$295 per person, based on 2 guests.
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.
* 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 provide a price and reserve the transfer(s) for you. If you have a non-cooker who would like dine, but not cook, please let us know and we will also send you pricing.
Half-Day Pienza Food Lover’s Tour with Tastings
Your English-speaking guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel to start your half-day tour of Pienza. Pienza is a quaint charming town, the birthplace of Pope Pius the II, and home to artisan cheese makers and artists. Enjoy our Food Lover’s Walking Tour of Pienza with food tastings included along the way. After the tour, your driver returns you to your hotel. Transfers from Montepulciano or nearby towns are included.
Program Prices
$345 per person, based on 2 guests including Pienza Walking Tour with tastings. English-speaking guide and driver also included.
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.
2024 Dates: This program is available daily throughout the year. 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.
