For those interested in professional cooking classes with our professional chefs, the menus can range from the very simple to more complex processes and ingredients befitting a professional kitchen, still with all the gusto and care for tradition and great tastes with the highest standards of procedures and presentation.

Alternatively, for those home cooks who want to learn about the genuine, everyday dishes produced in Umbrian kitchens for family gatherings and everyday sensorial delights, our wonderful Italian cook will introduce you to the joy of selecting ingredients in season, preparing and cooking all to be tasted and enjoyed by all.

With both types of cooking classes you can try your hand at making homemade pasta or gnocchi, bite into the freshest flavours picked straight from the vines, drink in the aromas of the woodland truffles, soak up the home-baked breads with olive oil made from olives grown only in the region and drizzle locally produced honey over the best pecorino cheeses.

Depending on whether it is a group class or an individual class, the courses may be run in a fabulous agriturismo that also provides accommodation, with swimming pool, commercial kitchen, great tasting cellars and many other advantages, or in the family kitchens of the cook, all located in beautiful pastoral settings, in the countryside around Orvieto.

For genuine Italian cooking, whether by professionals for professionals or presented by great cooks for all comers, the classes are all about touch, feel, smell, passion and food. It is life itself and life is good, life is sweet.

Buon Appetito!

There are lots of great inclusions in this program and many more options for a whole range of activities should you want to extend your stay. We can suggest (and facilitate) an itinerary of 3 or 4 days (or more) of additional activities and visits that may include wine and oil tastings, or language classes, as well as guided excursions to places such as Deruta, Todi, Carlsulae (ancient Roman ruins), Assisi and even further afield to Rome, Florence, Venice and much more.

BRIEF OUTLINE OF ITINERARY

(Note: may change to accommodate alternative services but inclusions will remain essentially the same)

DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN ORVIETO / INTRODUCTIONS / PRESENTATIONS / PLANNING THE WEEK

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DAY 4:

DAY 5:

DAY 6:

DAY 7: DEPARTURE FROM ORVIETO

Costs for the 2010 programs are available on request. A 20% non-refundable deposit is due to hold your booking. You may be eligible for a discount if you book with a partner and elect to share accommodation. Please ask for further information and availability.

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