(Options: Day Cooking Classes)
Umbria, Italy - 3 nights
Available year round

Learn to cook with an Italian family who will show you the secrets of Umbrian cuisine. Cristina, your hostess, has been conducting cooking courses since 1999 at a nearby villa but has restored her eighteenth century country house and is now inviting guests to her home for day cooking classes or residential cooking programs.

You will feel right at home at this lovely piece of heaven in Umbria located 20km from Perugia. Cristina's cooking courses, which take place in Cristina's large and comfortable kitchen, begin at 4:00 pm (with a little break for a bruschetta and a wine tasting). For dinner you will feast on what you have learned to prepare, along with some wonderful regional wines.

Usually the menus depend on the fresh vegetables of the season. Cristina can teach you how to make a handmade fresh pasta like fettucine or potatoes gnocchi or anything with pizza dough like calzone, foccacia, pizza, all kinds of antipasti and desserts (tiramisù, chocolate mousse, semifreddo or panna cotta) and all the masterpieces of Italian cooking.

These courses can be taken on an individual basis with a minimum of 2 persons at dates of your choice. Participants use their own car to visit the area during their free time and to go to the wine tasting and to the pottery workroom. If clients do not have their own car, transfers can be organised at extra cost. Please inquire.

ITINERARY

Day One

Afternoon arrival around 3pm with your own car to the villa with time to relax with an Italian espresso. Before starting the class the teacher will give you a folder with the  menus and the recipes of the dishes you’ll prepare in the two days of cooking classes.

Cooking class begins at 4pm. You will learn how to cook little appetizers, filled vegetables and many kinds of bruschetta with tastings of different types of cheeses and olive oils. Class is followed by dinner with wine in the garden at 8pm.

Day Two

Breakfast with a cappuccino, local products, fruit, bread and prosciutto. If you want you can walk in the countryside or take a bike and explore the area.

 Wine tasting with a light lunch in a wine cellar in the area (15 minutes away). You will taste 5 different red and white wines each paired with a snack, and you will visit the beautiful ancient wine cellar with the owner as your guide.

The afternoon is yours with free time to visit to Assisi, Perugia or one of the beautiful medieval towns of the area or, if you prefer, you can return home and relax. Dinner is at 8pm.

Day Three

Breakfast with a cappuccino, local products, fruit, bread and prosciutto.

Visit one of the oldest pottery workrooms of De Ruta. They will show you how they make pottery from the beginning to the end of their work. Afterwards, lunch on your own in one of the nice bars or small restaurants of De Ruta.

Late afternoon cooking class: You will learn how to prepare an entire dinner that you will later enjoy. An Italian dinner begins with antipasti (appetizers) of vegetables with green sauce and patè or eggplants with mozzarella. The a primo, or first course, a deep-dish plate of soup, risotto, or pasta of one sort or another. The primo is followed by a secondo, a fish, meat, egg or vegetable-based main course with a side dish chosen to complement it (green salad with tomatoes, zucchini or boiled vegetables). Dinner usually ends with fresh fruit or a dessert (Italian ice cream, tiramisù…)

Day Four

Breakfast with a cappuccino, local products, fruit, bread and prosciutto. If you want you can walk in the countryside or take a bike ride.

Departure from the villa.

Buon viaggio!

GROUP SIZE

A minimum of 2 participants is required to run this tour and the tour is limited to a maximum of 8 participants.

HOW TO ARRIVE

By car, a 15 minute drive from Perugia, 20 minutes from Assisi and 1 hour from Siena.

*These details are provided as additional information. Please check below to see if transfers are included in this tour.

BOOKING INFORMATION

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CANCELLATION POLICY

Please contact us for cancellation policy information. Travel insurance is highly recommended.

CLIENT REMARKS

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