Mar 30 2008
Take an Italian Cooking Course on Your Next Vacation
No one goes to Italy just once. Everyone who walks the streets of ancient Rome or visits a villa in Tuscany is hooked. Most visitors to Italy go back again and again, but they long to recapture the feelings they had when they visited Italy for the very first time.
One way to recapture that fresh, new feeling and make it seem like you’ve never been to Italy before is to take an Italian cooking course during your next Italian vacation.
Italian Cooking Course Vacation Packages
When you take an Italian cooking course vacation, you are indeed headed for an adventure you have never before experienced. One popular tour provider is the Italian Cookery course at Casa Ombuto in Tuscany.
By the time you finish your Italian cooking course, you will know how to make a complete four course Italian dinner. Learn to make antipasto treats like torte verdure, bruschetta, and crostini. Go beyond those basic appetizers to more complex Italian cooking, with courses that give you hands on instruction and experience in rolling your own pasta and making your own gnocchi from scratch.
No Italian cooking course would be complete without a lesson in pizza. You will learn how to work with and control the wood burning pizza oven, and how to make your own pizza dough from scratch. Moving on to the meat course, you will learn how to make authentic rustic Italian dishes like wild boar with polenta, Tagliata with pepper sauce, and many similar classic Italian treats.
In the dessert course, prepare to learn how to make the classic Panna cotta or lemon pie topped with meringue.
When You Are Not Cooking
In between cooking courses, you will enjoy a true food enthusiast’s vacation. Can you imagine excursions to an olive grove and an olive oil mill, where you can taste olive oils as if they were fine wines? Don’t worry; you will also be able to taste fine wines as you visit some of the great vineyards and wineries in the Tuscany region.
Visit restaurants and castles; fill the days with golf outings, shopping excursions, and visits to fine coffee shops.
Italian cooking courses feature only the finest, fresh seasonal ingredients from the Tuscan countryside. Taste a Roma tomato in the land of Rome and make spaghetti sauce in the land where spaghetti originated. Rest assured that the chefs who teach your Italian cooking courses are well qualified in Italian, Mediterranean, and Tuscan cookery.
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