Taste Tuscany

Taste Tuscany

The School

Our Cooking Lessons & Tours concentrate on producing and promoting healthy balanced and nutritious meals. We pride ourselves on using good quality ingredients, local products and vegetables and fruit in season.
  

We aim to teach you something about the Italian cuisine, and more especially the Tuscan cuisine and its importance in the local culture.

This is very much a hands on experience. It is you that prepares the dishes under our guidance. Practical experience cannot be bettered as far as we are concerned. We want you roll up your sleeves and be the ones to roll the pici or cut, dice and slice the various ingredients.

We work through recipes with you that you will be more than capable of reproducing back home after your holiday, but which will surprise and delight your family and future dinner guests with their full flavours and interesting combinations.

We offer one day and three-day classes. It is not a residential school so for the longer course we will find you suitable accommodation. The three day classes take place in a variety of locations to give you the full flavour of Tuscan farms and country houses.

We look forward to working with you in the kitchens of Tuscany! 





Taste Tuscany

The Classes

One of the various options that we have available is the following one day lesson.

Cooking Lesson with Lunch and Wine Tasting

The cuisine has always represented and continues to represent one of the most important aspects of the Italian culture. Your holiday in Tuscany could be an ideal occasion to enter into hands on contact with this tradition, learning its secrets and experimenting for yourself.

We take you to a typical Tuscan house in the middle of the countryside. Here we work together to realise a selection of five courses, all typical Tuscan recipes. For example a menu such as:

Crostini or Bruschetta

Spinach & Ricotta Tart

Home Made Pici Pasta with a homemade sauce of Pesto and Fresh Tomatoes

Saltimbocca & Caprese

Tiramisu

At the end of the lesson itself we all move out of the kitchen onto the veranda for an aperitif accompanied by the first of your wines, a crisp white. This will be followed by a selection of red wines that because of their particular characteristics have been chosen to compliment the dishes with which they are matched. All the wines have been selected from the best vineyards in the region.

We aim to introduce you to the Rosso di Montalcino, Brunello and Vin Santo, all typical wines from this area.

Whilst sipping your wines and savouring the various flavours of the dishes that you have yourself have prepared you can enjoy the beautiful views of the Tuscan countryside.

We send you home with an illustrated booklet of recipes and information about the wines that we serve you during the lunch and wine tasting.

A special Tuscan day of fine flavours and great wines!



To Contact


Visit our site here http://www.tastetuscany.co.uk
or email us at: info@tastetuscany.co.uk