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Traditional Tuscan Cooking Class with Florentine Chef — Curious Appetite

All private food tours taken between now and Easter are 10% off! (Discount reflected at check-out)

Market-to-Table Italian Cooking Class with a Tuscan chef

While the term “market-to-table” is widely used, this experience truly means it. Your expert culinary instructor will show you the ropes in navigating the daily food markets in Florence and the art of homestyle, Tuscan cooking. Your lesson includes a full-course, hands-on overview of Florentine and Tuscan cuisine in an exclusive setting (private home for small groups or culinary studio for bigger parties) in order to provide an immersive, cultural experience with local mamma homecooks and chefs.

You'll meet your warm, friendly bilingual instructor in the market district where you’ll work together on a menu of the moment to pick out peak season ingredients from the regions most earnest farmers and purveyors. You’ll then return the kitchen of your instructor to transform your market haul into traditional Tuscan appetizers such as fried sage leaves or zucchini flowers, fried coccoli (savory fried dough) with prosciutto & fresh cheese, handmade pasta making (tortelli, ravioli, tagliatelle, etc), seasonal primi (first courses) like fresh tagliatelle in artichoke sauce or kale pesto, tomato sauces, polpette (meatballs) historical peppered beef stews cooked in wine (peposo), roast meats (pork loin arista) and local desserts like almond biscotti (cantuccini) and seasonal fruit crostata or macedonia.

This full-course Tuscan cooking class in Florence is complete with fresh pasta making and recipes to replicate at home guaranteed to be crowd-pleasers to impress your guests with.

After this hands-on immersive lesson, you’ll understand how Tuscans eat with the seasons and why is no such thing as Italian cuisine- but rather distinct culinary repertoires that vary depending on which of the 20 Italian regions you are in, and varies from city to city, even!

  • Quick highlights:

    • Exclusive, private hands-on culinary lesson led by a bilingual local expert

    • Fresh pasta making by hand as well as sauces, plus a variety of traditional Tuscan family recipes from appetizers, mains and desserts

    • Learning how to shop food markets of Florence with your expert chef instructor

    • Cook with a Florence local in the exclusivity of their private home kitchen or a culinary studio (for parties of 5 or more)

    •Sit-down meal of your creations with your instructor with wine, dessert and coffee to finish

    (Full highlights and inclusions detailed in next section)

    Start time: Morning (9am w/ market walk & shop) or Afternoon (4:30pm start w/o market)
    **Please note: If you’d like a custom start time, please let us know in the questionnaire section of your booking or inquiry.

    Days: Monday-Sunday (Sunday a.m. available only at custom rates- contact us for rates)

    Private Lesson Cost: (DEPENDS ON GROUP SIZE AND *PERIOD) 1-2 guests = $225 pp, 3-6 guests = $175 pp. For groups of more than 6, please contact us for a custom quote. Youth tickets under 10 receive a $35 discount at check-out (2 adult ticket min. before a youth ticket may be added).

    *DURING HIGH DEMAND TRAVEL WEEKENDS & HOLIDAYS, THERE MAY BE A SURCHARGE AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED AT CHECK-OUT

    Custom menu Cost: Please Inquire. Cost depends on how many people and request.

  • • Exclusive hands-on culinary lesson led by a bilingual local expert culinary instructor

    • Fresh pasta making by hand (i.e. tagliatelle, pici, ravioli, etc)

    • Make appetizers with seasonal delicacies such as zucchini flowers, porcini, artichokes, etc

    • Food market walk in Florence to shop for your seasonal menu’ (for morning lessons only)

    • Learn how to make Italian pasta sauces- from scratch!

    • Discover Florence's meat legacy- learn historical main course dishes!

    • Meet a local chef and dive in to Tuscan cuisine

    • Cook with a Florence local in the exclusivity of their private home kitchen
    *Only available for groups of 4 or less. If your private group is comprised of 5 or more, we will arrange at a larger culinary studio.

    • Full-course menu with wine (appetizers, first course, second course and dessert!)

    • Bake Tuscan cookies "cantuccini" and other Italian desserts

    • Sit-down lunch or dinner of your creations with your instructor

    • Culinary and cultural immersion

    • Pick-up priceless tips in the kitchen

    Duration: 4/5hours, including sit-down meal with wine

    Inclusions: *Market walk & shop (only for morning lessons), full-course meal instruction, 100% hands-on, all food/ingredients, personalized lesson with chef, water, coffee and wine.

    Location: Depends on availability, either near Duomo or Santo Spirito in the Oltrarno

    Not included: Travel insurance, extra hours, additional hours and trip cancellation insurance. *Market walk not available for evening cooking classes.

    NOTE ON CAPACITY: We generally prefer private parties to be small to keep the experience hands-on with lots of attention from the culinary instructor. If you are a larger group, we can accommodate you in a larger venue with 2+ chefs, please inquire for rates and availability.
    You will be in fine hands with an excellent culinary expert who loves teaching people the beauty of Tuscan cuisine to students from around the world. With this classic cooking class in Florence, you'll start off as a student and leave as a dear friend with priceless memories and knowledge of Tuscan cuisine.

 
 

*Please note all pricing is in USD$. Click on " Private Lesson Pricing & Schedule" to expand and view pricing details.

Continue your curious cooking at home! Add one of our aprons to your experience at checkout.

 
 
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