Florence
Tuscan Cooking Class in Florence: Market to Table Experience
Join our Tuscan chef for a hands-on cooking class in Florence. Visit the San Lorenzo market, select fresh ingredients, and learn to prepare a four-course Tuscan meal. Contact us for pricing
Cooking class in beautiful location with food shopping at local market
Meet our Tuscan chef to learn how cook a nice Tuscan meal in the heart of Florence. You’ll get a view into the typical Tuscan cuisine.
Under the expert guidance of our chef, you will visit the historic San Lorenzo central market, where you will select the ingredients that you will then use to prepare a four-course authentic Tuscan meal (starter, first course, second course and dessert). You will meet the butchers, the bakers, and the farmers selling vegetables from their gardens. You will learn how to distinguish the highest quality ingredients and as an added bonus, how to bargain! You will taste local foods & wines.
Learn step by step how to make a satisfying full Italian menu, from the antipasto appetizer to dessert, including the art of making pasta fresca! Learn how to cook pasta such as tagliatelle or pici in this fun hands-on pasta making adventure. After you prepare your pasta, the chef will help you to prepare a tempting sauce to accompany it such as fresh basil pesto, Ragout of wild mushrooms, sweet onion meat, duck ragout and an array of other sauces. The second course is a meat or fish dish with a vegetable contorno , then the tuscan dessert!
Participants cook and enjoy dishes prepared using fresh, natural ingredients. A complete meal such as an appetizer, pasta dish, vegetable or meat dish and then a dessert is prepared every day and is accompanied by the wine which best complements it.
Duration: from 9 to 3 pm
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