This cooking school's modern, professional kitchen occupies the ground floor of a 15th century villa. During your stay you will live above the school, in bedrooms that are charmingly decorated with Italian country antiques.
Students encompass every level from culinary beginners to accomplished chefs who come to study the unique nature of Tuscan cuisine. Taught by three experienced and professional instructors, all classes are small in size, completely hands-on and conducted in English.
During the cooking class, the school’s instructional emphasis remains focused on the same three things: traditional Tuscan technique, innovative use of ingredients and esthetic presentation.
What changes is the seasonality of the food. Each course devotes special attention to pairing foods with appropriate wines.
The package price for each program includes accommodations, lessons, all meals (paired with excellent wines), daily sightseeing tours, taxes, tips and airport or train transfers to and from Pisa airport or Viareggio train station.
The Advanced Fundamentals course is a food and wine experience geared for both the advanced beginner and the professional chef.
The Advanced Course takes you from the kitchen to the table to reveal the essential techniques behind Tuscany's famed cuisine, and each day includes two leisurely meals featuring sumptuous dishes expertly paired with delicious Italian wines.
In this course you'll work with the key ingredients that are indigenous to Tuscany and indispensable to its cuisine, including game meats, Mediterranean fish, Tuscan vegetables, truffles, cheeses, olive oils and vinegars.
The Advanced Course consists of 32 hours of lessons, a trip to the celebrated Cennatoio winery in Panzano, a trip to the local shepherdess for a cheese-making demonstration,
wine, cheese, truffle, olive oil,
chocolate tastings and much much more!!
Don't miss out on this incredible gastronomic experience, as the class size is limited to only
eight students, so book early!!!
Included in this all-inclusive course:
Five days of intensive hands-on instruction for advanced home cooks and professionals Five days of intensive hands-on instruction in the advanced fundamentals of Tuscan cuisine using professional equipment.
All 32 hours are taught by Sandra Lotti and her staff of chef instructors.
Skills taught include:
Pasta shapes and how to marry them with sauces, plus the effective use of different flours and recipes Pasta sauces and fillings, including the essential "soffritto" method for making Tuscan sauces Basic sauces and soups
Fish: cleaning, boning, filleting and preparation Chicken: boning, quartering, stuffing and preparation
Pastry, cakes and custards, doughs and breads. Includes puff pastry, pate à choux and pasta frolla
Vegetables: carving, stuffing, preparation Meats: lamb, hare, wild boar; how to roast, deep-fry and braise
Other highlights include: Wine, cheese, truffle and olive oil tastings
A tour to the celebrated Cennatoio winery in Panzano-in-Chianti for a wine tasting and dinner
A visit to the central food market in Viareggio for a lesson on Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean fish A cheese-making demonstration by a local shepherdess
Every meal will be paired with the greatest wines of Italy Toscana Saporita Cooking School announces its second annual Advanced Course, five days of intensive instruction in the advanced fundamentals of Tuscan cuisine, including, sauces, soups, fish, meats, desserts, pastry, vegetables, cooking with wine, and wine pairing.
All 32 hours of instruction are hands-on using professional equipment under the guidance of Chef Director Sandra Lotti and her staff of chef instructors.
A food and wine experience geared for both the advanced beginner and the professional chef, the Advanced Course takes you from the kitchen to the table to reveal the essential techniques behind Tuscany's famed cuisine, and each day includes two leisurely meals featuring sumptuous dishes expertly paired with delicious Italian wines.
In this course you'll work with the key ingredients that are indigenous to Tuscany and indispensable to its cuisine, including game meats, Mediterranean fish, Tuscan vegetables, truffles, cheeses, olive oils and vinegars. In addition to hands-on daily culinary instruction, the week includes wine, cheese, truffle and olive oil tastings, plus a tour to the celebrated Cennatoio winery in Panzano-in-Chianti for a wine tasting and dinner.
Other excursions include a visit to the central food market in Viareggio for a lesson on Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean fish, and a visit to a local shepherdess for a cheese-making demonstration.
The Advanced Course builds on Toscana Saporita's twelve years of successful culinary instruction. It all takes place on a charming country estate where for a week at a time, guests "live like true Tuscans", living in fully updated 15th-century apartments and enjoying leisurely meals on the estate's sun-drenched lawn and around the 20-seat table in the main dining room.
* Excludes airfare and is based on double occupancy with private bath facilities, plus some limitations on air/rail transfers. For details, please refer to our Terms and Conditions.
SUNDAY - Arrival
Welcome Lunch
Relaxing afternoon
Dinner and wine tasting
MONDAY -
Continental breakfast
Morning lesson (4 hours)
Lunch
Afternoon lesson (4 hours)
Dinner with cheese and wine tasting
TUESDAY -
Continental breakfast
Morning lesson (4 hours)
Lunch Afternoon
Excursion to Cennatoio Winery in Panzano in Chianti
Dinner in Chianti
WEDNESDAY -
Continental breakfast Morning lesson (4 hours)
Lunch
Afternoon lesson (4 hours)
Dinner with wine tasting
THURSDAY -
Continental breakfast
Morning excursion to Shepherdess and to Viareggio Fish Market
Lunch
Afternoon lesson (4 hours) Dinner and wine tasting
FRIDAY -
Continental breakfast
Morning lesson (4 hours)
Lunch
Afternoon lesson (4 hours)
Graduation Dinner with wine pairing prepared by students
SATURDAY -
Continental breakfast
Departature between 8 am and 12 pm
