Week Cooking Course in Italy Padua

Week Long Cooking Vacations in Italy | Rolling Pin Cooking School

Enjoy our exciting culinary adventures: 5 days cooking course

Learn a few new tricks, skills, techniques, and traditional Italian recipes.

Join us in one of our  hands-on week long course: we have many spots on 2026 and 2027.
Available on 2026 and 2027.

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 4 nights), you can expect to learn about:

• Italian ingredients–fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices: farm to table;
• Authentic Italian aromas and flavors;
• Hands on lessons: 5 classes each one 4 hours;
• 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 week long 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 with accommodation included
Sunday arrival

DAY 1 (Monday):
in the morning the first cooking class and then lunch with the fruit of the class, then check in – 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.

First night.

DAY 2 (Tuesday):
In the morning  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

Second night.

DAY 3 (Wednesday):
In the morning 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).

Third night

DAY 4 (Thursday):
In the morning the Fourth cooking class –> Lunch with docg or doc Italian WINES and the fruit of the cooking class.
Free afternoon to relax

Fourth Night 

DAY 5 (Friday):
In the morning Fifth cooking class.
Lunch with docg or doc Italian WINES and the fruit of the cooking class.
After lunch farewell and goodbye (Check out). But if you need an extra night we can offer you an extra night on demand.

Week Sample Cooking Program without accommodation 
Monday in the morning the first cooking class then lunch with the fruit of the class

Tuesday in the morning the second cooking class then lunch with the fruit of the class

Wednesday in the morning the third cooking class then lunch with the fruit of the class

Thursday in the morning the fourth cooking class then lunch with the fruit of the class

Friday in the morning the fifth cooking class then lunch with the fruit of the class

PRICE ON DEMAND via email

Our Week long cooking session – 5 days cooking course  (each class lasts 4 hours – 4 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 long COOKING COURSE HIGHLITGHTS:

• Learn about the art of Regional Italian Cuisine completely from scratch;
• Hands on, not demonstrations;
• Small groups maximum 4 people but we are available if you are interested or if you are a family of 6 to host you;
• 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 hours per day, 5 days in total (included 4 nights accommodation)

DIFFICULTY: Beginner to Advanced

ABOUT ACCOMMODATION: if you have accommodation here around you can even have the same programs without accommodation (SEND US an email about the tuiton fee)

COURSE TAGS:  Foodies,  Italian Cuisine, Healthy Food Lovers,  Italian Recipes, Homemade, Cooking Tourism and Food Tourism.

week cooking course Italy

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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