Learn home cooking from a cooking expert whom Florentine gourmet buff trusts
Florence is one of pre-eminent treasures of Europe, and it is a time to honored Mecca for sightseers from all over the world. But as a city, it can be Early Renaissance and retains many of impeccable fortresses like features of pre-renaissance Palazzi, whose facades were mostly meant to keep intruders out rather than to invite sightseers in. The typical Florentine exterior gives nothing away, as if obsessively guarding secret treasures within.
The essence of Italian cooking is home cooking by Mamma. Tuscany is a treasure source of food material. Italy has so much different types of regional cooking and Tuscany’s cooking is known as amalgam of both aristocratic and simple peasant cooking, thus, because the reason why it is called “gastronomic city”. Florentine home cooking reminds us of the fact that our taste buds are so used to aesthetic aspects of appearances. The reverence and amore (love) for the nature is the source of Italian art as well as cooking. Real beauty of the tasteful Italian food can be found in Mother’s cooking of which affectionate care and attention. As our home cooking instructor, Senora Fiametta says, “Home cooking should be handed down from a generation to generation. Its taste should be preserved in both tradition and in progress of culinary culture”. The lessons are filled with a touch of lightness and humor that remind us once again of time our mothers used to show us the way of things. You forget your sense of time as you take these lessons.
Home cooking is an essence of Italian gastronomy
You can learn Italian way of life as well as cooking recipe. Florence surrounded by nature’s bliss, rolling hills of grapes and wheat field. Mother’s affections, people’s smiles and tasteful food waits for unexpected guests at the dinner table. We are once again reminded that home cooking gives a place where friends and loved ones can give a blessing of life to each other. Home cooking doesn’t drive from state-of-art restaurant kitchens but is borne from regular kitchens from regular home. Instructors wished students would use their own kitchens at home after they return home from lessons.
“Home cooking should not be overdone. It has to be something you don’t get tired of, when you eat it everyday. Also it’s importance lies in the fact that it can be prepared easily”.
Study from home cooking expert/teacher
Recipe includes more than 65 items for one-month course
Florentine home cooking has a long history since Renaissance time. It has been developed by Etolrians from pre-Roman time on breeding method of chianina beef, meat dishes using gallina and rabbits. Others include dolce, vegetable cooking developed by aristocrats, sensitive attention given to traditional recipe mixed with simplicity of peasant cooking added with a personal touch of mother. Instructor will teach you at least 4-5 items for the full-course everyday. You will learn from 65 to 85 recipes for a month. See the sample menu
“As you already know, Tuscany’s climate is best suited to wine making, Chianti, Brunerro di Montarchino are too famous to mention for their red. It is fun to matching recipe to wines.”
Fees and Schedule 2023
(fees - includes accommodation, meal vouchers (2 meal vouchers + 2 drink (coffee/tea/mineral water) vouchers per week), and weekly visits, etc.)
| 1 week | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 6 weeks | 8 weeks | 12 weeks |
| Fees (Tuition Fee + Accommodation, etc.) | |||||
| €1,800 | €2,800 | €4,900 | €6,900 | €9,200 | €12,900 |
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| 20 lessons/week (including time of cooking, tasting & cleaning up) | |||||
| Check-in (Sun) - Check-out (Sat) | |||||
| [ 2023 ] May 7–May 13 May 21–May 27 Jun 4–Jun 10 Jun 18–Jun 24 Jul 2–Jul 8 Jul 16–Jul 22 Jul 30–Aug 5 Aug 6–Aug 12 Aug 27–Sep 2 Sep 10–Sep 16 |
[ 2023 ] May 7–May 20 May 21–Jun 3 Jun 4–Jun 17 Jun 18–Jul 1 Jul 2–Jul 15 Jul 16–Jul 29 Jul 30–Aug 12 Aug 27–Sep 9 Sep 1 –Sep 23 |
[ 2023 ] May 7–Jun 3 May 21–Jun 17 Jun 4–Jul 1 Jun 18–Jul 15 Jul 2–Jul 29 Jul 16–Aug 12 Aug 27–Sep 23 Sep 10–Oct 7 |
[ 2023 ] May 7–Jun 17 May 21–Jul 1 Jun 4–Jul 15 Jun 18–Jul 29 Jul 2–Aug 12 Jul 16–Sep 9 Aug 27–Oct 7 |
[ 2023 ] May 7–Jul 1 May 21–Jul 15 Jun 4–Jul 29 Jun 18–Aug 12 Jul 2–Sep 9 Jul 16–Sep 23 Aug 27–Oct 21 |
[ 2023 ] May 7–Jul 29 May 21–Aug 12 Jul 2–Oct 7 Jul 16–Oct 21 |
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Note: Due to a SUMMER BREAK, the school will be closed from August 12, 2023, to August 27, 2023. Including Enrollment fee, |
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Italian Home Cooking Examples
A sample menu for 1 week
A sample menu for 1 month
