If you want to discover the ingredients that make our food one of the best in the world, and at the same time experience the atmosphere of a Florentine villa, the cooking class in our chef’s home will be unforgettable.

Since 1992 Silvia, our chef, has been teaching Italian cooking both in Florence and abroad and she counts, among others, the chefs of Marriott International and Aldiana Resorts as her clients. Recently she qualified as certified olive oil tester

COOKING CLASS IN THE “CHEF’S VILLA”

She will introduce you to the secrets of the Italian/Tuscan cooking, you will create your own dishes and improve your culinary skills.
When ready, all the guests will sit at the table in the living room and eat what they have prepared.

The class is approx. 3 hours, preparing a complete meal:
one pasta dish (can be pasta or gnocchi or risotto), one meat dish (or fish on request) with side dish and a dessert.

Matching wines will be served.

If you want, we can also organize a stroll in Sant’Ambrogio local food market, where Silvia will teach you how to select the fresh and good ingredients for your recipes; you will do some food shopping and some food tasting.

Included: All ingredients, the class, the wines, the printed recipes and the certificate of attendance.

Not included: market stroll, the transfer back to the guests’ hotel .

CLASS ON OLIVE OIL + APERITIF

DURATION: 1 ½ HOURS

Included: three ‘professional’ tastings of three different varieties of Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil (served with crackers, apple and sparkling water to ‘clean’ your mouth between one testing and the next) and three ‘soft’ tastings of Extra Virgin Olive oil on bruschetta with fresh vegetables.

Plus if you feel adventurous you may also like to learn more and taste an ‘imperfect’ extra virgin olive oil.