Week Long Cooking Vacations in Italy | Rolling Pin Cooking School
Enjoy our exciting culinary adventures: 5 days cooking course + one day food market tour.
Learn a few new tricks, skills, techniques, and traditional Italian recipes.
Many of our students – guests leave the week long cooking course telling us that it has been one of the best weeks of their lives!!!!
Our week long cooking programs are for beginners as well as experienced professionals. Cooking Courses are taught in English.
During week long cooking course (accommodation included), you can expect to learn about:
- Italian ingredients–fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices: farm to table;
- Authentic Italian aromas and flavors;
- Hands on lessons;
- Professional chef presentation;
- Mastery of regional Italian dishes, including breads, focaccia, sauces, fresh pastas, pizza from scratch, main course, Italian pastries and desserts, gelato;
- all prepared in the old fashion way
- Italian pasta tools, cookware, bread tools, fryers, et cetera;
- cooking techniques.
Some traditional Italian foods are at risk of disappearing (due to altered lifestyles). Therefore, it is so important to study and document traditional recipes to sustain important elements of different Italian cultures. Traditional Italian food means natural, low processed, with a story, produced ‘in grandmother’s way’, with an authentic recipe.
When speaking about the traditional Italian cuisine, we refer to something that is rather diverse. There are some dishes and foods or ingredients that may be traditional across a whole country, but usually a large variety of local and regional traditional foods exist.
Thus, the traditional Italian Cooking reflects and includes a great collection of traditional recipes from different regions. The famous dessert Tiramisù for example originates from the town of Treviso in the Veneto region. However, this yummy dessert nowadays widely consumed across the whole country, it is considered a traditional dessert consumed throughout Italy, although it originates from a more restricted geographical area.
Here the use of food ingredients and preparation methods has been passed on from one generation to the next.
The one week cooking program focuses on full immersion: learn the old and traditional art of Italian Gastronomy.
If you want you discover the many aspects to Italian Regional Cooking why not immerse yourself with a 6 days cooking course? You will learn from experienced cooking class teacher including baking, pizza making, fresh pasta making, dessert making, tiramisu making, the art of cooking fresh seafood and shellfish, or how to cook the famous ossobuco, and focaccia and bread making techniques.
Week Sample Cooking Program
Sunday arrival
DAY 1 (Sunday):
Check in – Arrival in the afternoon after 3:00 pm and settle into your private apartment.
Free afternoon to visit the town (the University of Padova is the second oldest universities in the world, founded in 1222). You can take an English tour in the afternoon to visit the University and where the famous Galileo Galilei was professor) or relax. Free evening to yourself
DAY 2 (Monday):
First cooking class –> we’ll prepare a full lunch (4 hrs). Free afternoon to relax, or go to Venice (only 30 minutes by train) or visit the town and the famous Botanical Garden (the oldest Botanical Garden in the world) and the Basilica di S. Antonio (Pilgrimage site and tomb of St. Anthony).
Free evening to yourself.
DAY 3 (Tuesday):
Second cooking class –> we’ll prepare a full lunch (4 hrs).
Free afternoon to relax, or visit the Cappella degli Scrovegni (The famous fresco cycle by Giotto, with its frescoes – the Scrovegni Chapel contains some of the greatest works of art in Italy: this is not to be missed).
Free evening to yourself
DAY 4 (Wednesday):
Free Day for yourself.
DAY 5 (Thursday):
Third cooking class –> Lunch with docg or doc Italian WINES and the fruit of the cooking class.
Free afternoon to relax or choose additional activities and tours offered in our ‘Additional Activities’ program or visit Venice (by train from Padova only 30 minutes) or Verona (the famous town of Romeo and Juliet, by train 45 minutes)
DAY 6 (Friday):
Fourth cooking class.
Lunch with docg or doc Italian WINES and the fruit of the cooking class.
Free afternoon to relax or choose additional activities and tours offered in our ‘Additional Activities’ program.
Free evening to yourself.
DAY 7 (Saturday):
Fifth cooking day
The lesson of the day including preparing lunch.
After lunch farewell and goodbye (Check out). But if you need an extra night we can offer you an extra night on demand.
Our Week long cooking session – 5 days cooking course – 6 nights included – will cover classic regional Italian recipes and allow you to discover the rich and genuine and simple specialties of Italian Cooking.
You will learn hands-on a variety of recipes to take home (Carbonara sauce, Bolognese sauce Ragu, Cacio e pepe sauce, Focaccia from scratch, Pizza from scratch, dessert class, ravioli class or tortellini class, cavatelli class, how to make a few delicious antipasti starters….. or how to make the famous Vongole Clam Sauce, or Arrabbiata sauce or Amatriciana sauce, or how to make potato gnocchi or agnolotti or lasagne……), delicious main dishes, side dishes, yummy desserts.
WEEK COOKING COURSE HIGHLITGHTS:
- Learn about the art of Regional Italian Cuisine completely from scratch;
- Hands on, not demonstrations;
- Small groups;
- Everyone can interact with the Chef on the day;
- Every day (for five cooking classes) different classic and new recipes that you can recreate at home.;
LOCATION: PADUA PADOVA – Veneto region – Northern Italy
COURSE DURATION: 4-5 hours per day, 5 days in total, and one day food market tour (included 6 nights accommodation)
DIFFICULTY: Beginner to Advanced
COURSE TAGS: Foodies, Italian Cuisine, Healthy Food Lovers, Italian Recipes, Homemade, Cooking Tourism and Food Tourism.
All our Week Cooking Courses are available on request for any day, year round, based upon availability, for a minimum of one person and a maximum of eight people.
We also offer week long gluten free cooking courses; click here.
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