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Learn to cook in Italy
Everything from full cooking courses to half-day cooking classes to culinary tours to learn how to make some of that scrumptious Italian cuisine
Cooking classes in the Chianti region of Tuscany.Rather than just taking home from your next trip tales of that fantastic tagliatelle alla bolognese, why not return with the skills to recreate all those great Italian meals in your own kitchen?
Cooking schools and cooking classes while traveling—whether for an afternoon or a full week—are becoming all the rage, and it's not hard to see why.
You're getting the kind of genuine cultural insight no number of churches and museums could ever give, you're engaging with the locals on something about which they are truly passionate, and you're gaining a new skill (or at least new recipes to add to your repertoire).
And, of course, you get to eat all your mistakes (mmmm...mistakes).
How to find a cooking class, culinary course, gourmet tour, or cooking school in Italy
Active Gourmet Holidays (www.activegourmetholidays.com) - Mixing active pursuits—walking and biking, mostly, with some golf and yoga—with one-day cooking classes, longer cooking courses, wine tasting, and other culinary adventures. Nifty idea.You can learn to cook in Italy on every kind of course.
There are the posh and popular tourist-oriented cooking courses, chief among them the (pricey) schools run by cookbook authors Lorenza de' Medici in her medieval Tuscan monastery (www.cuisineinternational.com), Giuliano Bugialli in Florence (www.bugialli.com), or Mary Beth Clark in Bologna (www.internationalcookingschool.com).
But there are loads of others as well.
Several websites collects lists of various kinds of culinary adventures out there, from one-day classes to one-week courses, full-fledged tours to agriturismi with a cooking program, including Epiculinary (www.epiculinary.com) and ReidsItaly.com partners RealAdventures.com (www.realadventures.com) and InfoHub (www.infohub.com). Below are the 2010 culinary tours and Italian cooking schools listed by RealAdventures.com:
Cooking In Tuscany (Florence, Tuscany)
Single & multi-day Tuscan cooking classes, or weekly program in a Tuscan Villa. Fun & relaxed classes taught in English by Tuscan chefs. Also offer wine courses/excursions. Accommodations on estate. Last minute bookings welcome. Transport service.
€200/event 
Cooking Tours: Experience Real Local Life In Italy (tours all over)
Cooking school & wine tours in Italy. Cook with many chefs, home cooks on the same tour, visit wineries & food producers, markets, art, walks. Meet an amazing variety of local people in places off the tourist track & get immersed in real Italian life
€855/person
Società Dante Alighieri (Siena, Tuscany)
Società Dante Alighieri in Siena has a prestigious reputation. It welcomes students of all ages and nationalities that can attend courses of Italian gastronomy, language arts, or culture. You can participate in intensive culinary courses run in the morning or just attend a single evening culinary course. Rich program of activities. The school helps participants to find an accommodation according to their budget and specific requests.
From €70
Cook in Italy (Sorrento, Campania)
One of the most famous and older cooking schools in the Sorrento area, know as La Cucina del Gusto by chef Carmen. Hands-on cooking classes.
€1,000/Week
Toscana Mia (Chianti, Tuscany)
Italian cooking and wine classes organized in private homes with Italians for 1 day to 1 week. Enjoy the delights of Italian cuisine and study with true Italian people in a true Tuscan environment.
€165/person
Cook Italy (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna)
Enjoy hands-on cooking of authentic Italian meals in very small groups (four to eight at a time). Beautiful locations throughout Italy, but mostly in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and neighboring Tuscany. Bologna custom market-to-table classes (from €110) and three-night gourmet breaks (from from $250 per person, per day).
$250/person
Mami Camilla Italian Cooking School (Sorrento, Campania)
Mami Camilla is a small, high-quality school dedicated to providing an outstanding study abroad experience in traditional regional culinary arts. Flexible and dynamic enterprise to meet the needs, expectations and budgets of our students and guests.
$65/person
Cooking Holidays in Umbria (Perugia, Umbria)
Cooking vacation and cooking tours in a spectacular location (Umbria, Italy): hands-on cooking lessons, day excursions in Umbria and Tuscany, wine tours and traditional meals. 1-day, 4-day and 7-day programs. Solo travelers programs without supplement
€95/person
Up to the Villa Cooking Classes (Chianti, Tuscany)
Come and enjoy a fantastic experience of cooking with us in our homes in a spectacular villa from the 1500's in the Chianti hills.
€100/person
Try Piedmont Italian Cooking & Cultural Vacations (Asti, Piemonte)
If you love to cook, travel, drink wine and enjoy Italian culture then come to Piedmont. At Try Piedmont we will embrace all of these and more! Giving you a truly unique flavor and understanding of all that is good in life. A fully inclusive seven day, four day or even a one day Piedmontese cooking and culture experience not to be missed.
$1,290/event
Good Tastes of Tuscany (Florence, Tuscany)
Good Tastes of Tuscany, a cooking school situated in a romantic villa just 15km outside of Florence, Italy. We offer single and multiple day courses and also a weekly culinary program. All classes are taught in English by our Italian chefs.
€140/person
Cooking Holidays in Tuscany Italy (near Lucca, Tuscany)
Hands-on cookery holiday in Tuscany. 4 days/3 nights from $1200 US per person fully inclusive complimentary transfers from Pisa airport. Availability March–October 2010.
$1,200/trip
Amazing week in Sardinian Academy Cooking (Sassari, Sardinia)
Deep in the Mediterranean nature in the North West Sardinia , close the catalan town of Alghero we have built the Arcamyrtus Cooking Academy - where in a week you discover all the secrets of Italian & Sardinian cooking and lot lot more
€55/night/person
Organic Tuscany (Chianti, Tuscany)
Week-long "farm to table" organic cooking courses in the Tuscan hills. Includes visits to local organic farms, cooking classes using organic ingredients, olive oil and wine tastings and tours of Siena and Florence. Two courses a year are vegetarian.
$1,450/week
Il Chiostro Tuscan Country Cooking (Chianti, Tuscany)
Tuscany is in everyone's dreams, but packaged tours don't fit everyone's schedule, interests or needs. We offer a cooking program in Chianti, Italy. The courses last a week or as long as you want and take place in May and June and October. In addition we design and suggest outside excursions to satisfy your personal interests, be they art, history, nature, crafts, shopping, oenology.
$1500/person
The International Kitchen (various locations)
The International Kitchen offers unique culinary excursions to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco & Mexico. Cook with accomplished chefs or warm grandmothers with generations of recipes in small groups while exploring the surrounding regions.
$2,500/week
Cooking Vacations in Le Marche: Italy's secret (Macerata, The Marches)
Cooking and wine holidays in Le Marche: Italy's secret region. Using seasonal products picked fresh from the garden, meats and cheese from the region, visiting wine producers and secretive truffle hunters, & sharing with other appreciative gourmets
$1,990/week
Mama Tina at La Casereccia (Ischia Island, Campania)
Traditional Italian Home Cooking with Mama Tina at La Casareccia. Learn the secrets of authentic Italian cooking in an informal environment with Mama Tina and Papa Salvatore. This beautiful Italian couple has been preparing delicious Ischian cuisine for over 30 years using recipes that have been passed down from their parents and grandparents. Over six days you will learn the secrets of preparing a true Italian feast from entrees and appetizers through to desserts and liqueur aperitifs.
$35/night
Cooking classes, culinary tours, and wine tastings
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Related pages
- A culinary walking tour of Bologna
- Bologna cooking classes (and a recipe for tagliatelle alla bolognese)
- Dining in Italy homepage
- Other educational tours (language, art/history/cultural, study)
- Tours FAQ (what questions to ask, are tours right for you, etc.)
- Vacation packages (air-hotel, air-car, untours)
- Escorted group tours
- Active vacations (bike, hike, horse)
- Special interest & niche tours (family, seniors, student, women, gay/lesbian, religious, handicapped, singles)
- Design your own group tour
- Private guides
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