Regional Culinary Specialites Our regional cooking classes explore Italy’s various regional culinary traditions; your cooking class can be tailor-made to explore a region of your choice in depth. Choose Tuscany with its hearty ribollita, roast game, fabulous Chianti wines. Or perhaps Sicily with its Arab and Greek influenced cuisine: couscous, bottarga, sarde beccafico, tuna and…
Italian Cooking Classes
Come cook with us, alone or in a group!
Our Italian cooking classes usually start with a market tour that lets you to get a feel for what is local and seasonal, and what kinds of ingredients Italians use in their cooking. At the market you’ll see fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood, meats, cheeses, pasta and breads. We’ll purchase the ingredients needed for the class and then head back to Flavor of Italy to cook.
We also offer cooking classes in your home, wherever it is that you live! Contact us for further details! flavorofitaly@gmail.com
NOTE: We are hosting classes in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and the Washington DC area in September and October 2019. Please contact me if you are interested!
All classes, whatever the format or theme you have chosen, are hands on. Some of our more successful classes are listed below. Classes are one day or longer. Contact us to custom design a cooking class of your own!
Homemade pasta: easy and fun to make!
No dish is more quintessentially Italian than homemade pasta. It can be long, short, filled or cut small to use in soup. There are also pastas that use a variety of whole grain flours, water instead of eggs, or hot water and butter instead of eggs. Despite innumerable variations, this classic homemade pasta recipe is perfect as the…
Cooking Classes at Flavor of Italy
Take a look at what we do in our cooking classes: they’re fun, you learn a lot, enjoy great food & wine, and take home a host of new, simple to prepare, delectable recipes. Our cooking school is based in Rome, but we also offer cooking classes throughout the year in the United States and…
Delicious deep fried zucchini flowers
In our cooking classes students have the recipes in front of them, making various dishes, including how to clean and stuff zucchini flowers…without tearing the flowers. Students are always fascinated to see the difference between the male and female flowers and to realize that the anchovies in the stuffing are actually a lot tastier than…