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Italy: Cooking Sorrento Style
(Option: Day Cooking Classes, Wine Tours, Italian Lessons)
Sorrento, Italy - 3 nights

The Sorrento Cooking School is an Italian school of cooking which takes place within the 4 star holiday complex “Esperidi Resort “ of the D’ Esposito family, located in a residential area of Sorrento close to the sea and city centre.

The cooking school opened in April 2004 from an idea of the young manager Raffaella D’ Esposito. The school offers a new way to experience Sorrento and its famous surroundings through personal interaction with local food and wines.

Guests will participate in the hands-on cooking lessons and pizza making demonstrations in one of the oldest local pizzerias. The school offers half-day hands-on cooking classes as well as an all inclusive 4-day package available March to October from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 15 participants. The lessons offer you the opportunity to learn a complete seasonal menu with particular focus on local specialties, from appetizers to desserts.

One-day program - “Cook for Fun in Sorrento”
An unforgettable half-day preparing a typical Neapolitan menu
(10am-2pm)

*Afternoon lessons are available upon request

Join us in the rediscovery of the Mediterranean culinary traditions and learn how to cook a typical Neapolitan menu! Lessons are taught in English. 
 

Sample Day Cooking Class Itinerary

9:30am We collect you at your Hotel by private car or by minivan and take you to the Sorrento Cooking School, where Chef Rosaria and her English speaking assistant Sara will be waiting for you.

10:00am Once arrived at the School we will wait until last person booked in for the day’s lesson has arrived. Sara will ask us to wear the school’s apron, the Chef’s paper hat, the gloves and listen to the day’s lesson introduction, that is the menu we will be working on. Generally menus are focused on Mediterranean recipes and Neapolitan typical dishes including local appetizers (arancini di riso or ricotta fritters) pasta

(gnocchi, lasagna, ravioli) sauces, fish and local desserts such as tiramisu, lemon delite or babà.  

11:15am A first short break allowing us time to taste the appetizer just prepared and drink a nice Prosecco wine with. Don’t forget the lesson is non a demonstration, it is hands-on which means that Chef Rosaria will not allow us not to have hands on flavour

1:00pm the menu is now ready and we can all seat and eat what we have prepared , tasting a good Campania doc wine (red or white) and end with a good Neapolitan espresso coffee and limoncello lemon liqueur.

2:00pm Full enough after the delicious lunch but happy to have learned how to cook a typical Neapolitan menu, we will be taken back to the Hotel where we will rest by the swimming-pool or just relax by reading a lessons are daily all year round.

Four Day Program/Three Nights

The ideal program for food & wine lovers who want to have a unique Italian short break in Sorrento

Day One  Transfer from Naples airport or train station.

Day Two Breakfast at the Esperidi Resort. Cooking lesson and lunch. Dinner at the Pizzeria Aurora with pizza making demonstration

Day Three Breakfast at the Esperidi Resort. Second hands-on cooking lesson. Dinner at 1-star Michelin “ Il Buco “ Restaurant

Day Four Breakfast at the Esperidi Resort. Transfer to Naples airport or train station

For further inquiries or to register, click here.



CANCELLATION POLICY

Client may cancel up to 21 days prior to arrival with only a 100€ penalty.

If client cancels 20 days or less prior to arrival no monies will be refunded.

Travel insurance is highly recommended.

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