Cook, Learn, Eat and Relax in a Tuscan Countryside Home

Name: Cook, Learn, Eat and Relax in a Tuscan Countryside Home
Brand: Il Gelsomino
Price: 107.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.00 (4 reviews)

US$ 107 per person
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5.00 (4)

Starting time

10am

Duration

5 hours

Min. participants

2 Participants

Language

English, Italian, Spanish

About

Live a real Tuscan countryside day, in our beautiful big property surrounded by olive trees and vineyard. On your arrival, after a coffee, of course, we will make the dough for the bread and the focaccia and while the dough rises, we will take a walk between our 900 olive trees (the view is incredible, perfect to take some photos!) and will explain how we make it, why it tastes like that... after that we will prepare our dessert: Cantucci (the Vin Santo is covered!).

We will go in our vegetable garden to pick up the tomatoes for our Pappa al Pomodoro, that will be served with Mozzarella di Bufala and a drop of Pesto. Please note that in not a season of tomato we can make instead some fresh pasta and its sauce, also if you prefer instead of the Pappa something else, just let us know.

While lunch is cooking we have to start in the real Italian way: aperitivo with tagliere (cheese, meat board, olive oil...). All the ingredients are local and they will be served with the focaccia and bread we made before.

Now is relaxing time, time to sip local wine, while waiting for the lunch to be served, in the middle of the beautiful countryside.

Included Highlights

All ingredients

Aperitif and appetizers

Cheese degustation

Complimentary coffee and wine

Learn about olive oil

Pick ingredients from the garden

Pick up from florence

Wine pairing

Schedule

10:00 am: Welcome coffee and cookies
10:30 am: Make your dough for Focaccia and Bread
11:30 am: Walking tour in the olive trees with lesson on the Extra Virgin Olive Oil
12:15 pm: Cooking Class: Cantucci
1:00 pm: Cooking Class: Pappa al Pomodoro
1:30 pm: Aperitivo with cheese tasting, salumi tasting, olive oil tasting
2:00 pm: Lunch with our creations
3:00 pm: End

Additional Information

Meeting Point

Meet at the cooking school

Confirmation

You will receive the confirmation of your booking's availability within 24 hours. Once confirmed, please present your booking reference number at the cooking school.

Cancellation

Full refund will be issued for cancellation made at least 48 hours prior to the activity

Il Gelsomino

37 Strada Romita, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Fi Italy

Verified 5.00 4 reviews

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Traveler Reviews

"Fabulous experience!"

As my family and I have grown up with traveling in our blood, revisiting Italy together was a must. Coming all the way from Hawaii, we were so excited for this trip to meet new people and learn more about their culture. Needless to say, we had a wonderful time With Camilla and Tommy at their beautiful home. Being in Chianti was such nice getaway from our stay in the city. They were both very friendly, joked with us the entire time and joined us with our meals. They greeted us with café and biscuits, and we got right into learning how to make pumpkin focaccia, traditional focaccia, fresh pasta noodles and 2 different sauces. As lunch was plated we toured around their beautiful property, surrounded by olive trees and rolling hills with perfect weather in October. We had our first experience in olive oil tasting and enjoyed our lavish meal. We began with a taglieri, mouth watering spread of Italian meats and cheeses with honey and fruit preserves, and wine of course. Gosh, we were in heaven! To follow was our masterpiece of focaccia breads, cacio pepe and carbonara. With wine on the side! Unbelievably tasty! To finish, Tommy baked us a perfect berry cake. My family and I love to eat, and ate as much as we could till we would pop, and there was still food left over for us to take home. Now that we are back in Hawaii, and have our recipe cards of everything we created, we are looking forward to mastering these dishes here at home. Meeting this couple was a highlight of our trip and we hope to keep in touch with them in the future.

"An Incredible Experience!"

The setting was beautiful! It was located in the Chianti region and the class was held outside. We got to explore the vegetable garden and the olive oil trees. We picked some figs and learned how to bake bread and made incredible papa pomodoro. We were also served fresh focaccia, a variety of cheeses, meats, wine, and dessert wine. The hosts were also very welcoming and gracious. They drove to Florence to pick us up and take us back. We highly recommend taking this class if you’re staying in Florence!

"4 Course Dinner Deluxe with Local Wine"

The class was a lot of fun. My wife and our 4 boys really enjoyed cooking the 4 course meal, and the best part was eating what we created. Thank you to Walter and the excellent support team. We wish them good luck in the new, larger facility so they can bring more cooking joy to more people.

"Excellent"

Tommy, Matthew, and Camelia(not sure of the spelling) were fabulous. Beautiful family inside and out. Villa was set on hillside which their family owned and were so proud of. They went out of their way to please us in every way. Food was excellent. Instructions were very knowledgeable and understandable. My only regret was that it did not last longer because I failed to get proper directions and it took longer to find Tommy and the car sooner. Next time I will know better. First time in Europe and Mediterranean and I learned a lot.