Our story started a few years ago.
This is more than a homey cooking school in Padua: it is a place to have fun and explore the Italian gastronomic heritage.
We are not a culinary school with professional trainings but a cooking school with one of the best hands on cooking classes and baking or pasta experiences in Italy.
Our purpose is to offer a gastronomical regional survey of Italian Cuisine and the many variations of Italian Gastronomy.
The Italian Cooking does not exist! Italy is the cooking of regions!
As William Arthur Ward says: “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires“.
We would like to inspire people and their eating and cooking habits.
We do hope you take the opportunity to try our recipes and to follow our histories, techniques, and traditions.
We will help you understand the real simple cooking of Italy. You’ll cook different dishes with our beloved family recipes on each day.
Our Chef/owner will share with you the real passion for teaching and cooking experience.
After attending a culinary school, the chef teacher desired to deepen the cuisine of his roots, the Regional Italian Cuisine. 
She worked as chef in an important restaurant – pizzeria in Venice, then decided to travel and discover new culinary experiences.
Rome, Palermo, Florence, Urbino, Perugia add color flavors, recipes and imagination to her knowledge.
But the search for the simplicity of the product brings her back to Padova and this homey cooking school offers her the opportunity to promote the taste and beauty of the best Italian ingredients.
She continues her search for old and traditional recipes: she thought of focus all her knowldege and experience, passed from one generation to the next, from mother to daughter, to this interesting culinary activity.
Expect to be exposed to new recipes, flavors and ingredients profiles.
Our place is unique in character, with friendly atmosphere – has an excellent English-speaking chef tutor, top class ingredients and a nice location.
From cooking classes or pasta classes of just a few hours to week courses, you should be able to find the cooking course that would suit you best.
We believe that by understanding where our old recipes and food come from, how every dish is made and by whom, people can learn how to appreciate the importance of Regional Italian Cooking and the importance of the “Slow Food Concept”.
Good and delicious food is simple food.
Our Ingredients about Cooking and Eating during our Cooking Classes or Pasta Classes or Baking Workshops:
- local, seasonable, and organic food when possible;
- good omega-3 fats (nuts, fish, and extra virgin olive oil cold pressed);
- lots of legumes, probiotics, garlic, onion;
- lots of veggies and fruits (not canned or processed);
- whole grains;
- lean meat.
FARM TO FORK STRATEGY
In line with the European Green Deal, we follow the Farm to Fork Strategy (a central element of the EU’s recovery plan).
These our concrete actions on sustainability and health: serving and cooking local and organic food, in line with guidelines for sustainable, healthy diets;
supporting the small farm economics and the farmer’s markets, following the food traceability, avoiding the food waste.
Our food must be fresh, seasonal, local!
We can play a key role in the transition to a more sustainable, eco-friendly, and healthy food system!
The biodiversity loss is a present and clear danger to humanity.
OUR ANSWER lies in the next generation: educating people about our relationship with healthy farm to fork food.
Our Farm to Fork Strategy: Make Our Food Systems More Sustainable
OUR VISION AND APPROACH
- cook and eat food or ingredients that is a close to the earth as possible: the more local and fresher, the better: “we love the concept of Slow Food Movement and Farm To Table“;
- start with whole foods: they taste better than processed foods!
- raw or organic materials, high-quality food;
- safeguard biodiversity;
- follow nutritional harmony and balance;
- keep it very simple: only a few fresh ingredients make a bigger success than a dozen cheap and sophisticated ones.
Our goal is teaching how to reduce food waste!
So you can learn to spend less, waste less, and help the Mother Earth while you’re at it!
You will discover regional Italian Culture through a unique culinary experience.
You’ll cook different dishes with our beloved family recipes on each day.
Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced cook or foodie – we have a cooking class or cooking course to fit your needs. You would undoubtedly improve your culinary skills.
A cooking class or a pasta class or a fun culinary tour is a fantastic way to improve your cooking!
In conclusion, taking a cooking class is key to mastering the art of our extraordinary cuisine.
ITALY’S RICH CULINARY HISTORY
In regional Italian cuisine, tradition and history play a significant role and recipes and food preparation practices can stretch back centuries.
The regional Italian food has been influenced by several aspects: history, geography, economy. So every conquerors of the country (Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, Arabs in Sicily, Lombards or Goths, Normans or Spaniards in Naples, French or Austrians in Milan) left their imprinting on the the food, on the culture, and on the local languages “dialetti”.
Italy’s geography, history, and four seasons have produced a good many seasonal dishes and foods that reflect the nation’s geographic characteristics.
During our cooking classes you will explore Italy’s 2,000 year old culinary culture
We will introduce you to the historical, cultural, nutritional background of our rich cuisine.
Our cooking classes are not just a place where you can cook more or less good food. This is a place where you can be happy, relax, and meet other travelers or beginner cooks.
We offer basic or advanced courses for cooks at every level (from beginners to highly accomplished).
Every different region or town of Italy contributes something to our cooking classes: from the rice and seafood dishes of Venice and the savory Cotoletta alla Milanese of Milan, to the fresh pastas from Emilia Romagna or Apulia and Sardinia, to the sweets of Tuscany and Piedmont, and the rustic cooking of Rome and Lazio.
Sometimes we love to concentrate on old and traditional recipes not generally known in USA or in other parts of the world.
Our classic and tasty recipes are made with the freshest of local, seasonal and simple ingredients (from the fantastic farm markets in Padua: Piazza delle Erbe, Piazza delle Frutta), freshly prepared.
We showcase popular, tradition, Italian identity, cooking and culture, but conveyed through the quest for the highest quality.
This is our story
The creation of this place is a love affair with food!
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