Cooking Classes
Cooking lessons are hands-on, intimate, fun, informative and full of tips and tricks of the trade.
Our Chef will encourage you to discover and explore the tastes and textures of some of the finest ingredients: from fresh home-made pasta and gnocchi with its various sauces to truffles, fragrant garden Italian herbs, porcini mushrooms and wild asparagus, murky green newly pressed olive oil, creamy pecorino cheeses and classic Italian wines.
To enhance this Italian culinary experience, kitchen studies are complimented by a special touring programme to some of the most enchanting and personally selected towns, markets, vineyards and other hidden treasures of Tuscany.
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You cannot tell to have been in Tuscany without having visited Andrea at Vecchio Mulino in Castelnuovo Garfagnana, capital of the beautiful mountain region of Garfagnana.
This old amazing shop, with just few tables, will bring you centuries back in a time where farmers used to stop and rest drinking a glass of wine and enjoying a 'panino al prosciutto'. Today it is a SLOW FOOD association 'must stop' for gourmet people loving old and genuine tastes: selected and local ham, cheeses, salami, sausages, and traditional vegetable pies. A big selection of Tuscan wines is available on the wood shelves.
At just 3 Kms west of Lucca, in a area called Sant' Alessio, there is another charming old lovely place 'AL TAMBELLINI', a 140 years old 'Ristoro'
It is a bar where, on the back side, there is a restaurant with an outside courtyard, preparing old and traditional dishes. A third generation family is running this 'old style' business.
Our one star Michelin restaurant Butterfly, at 5 Kms north of Lucca,
is a delicious and esclusive restaurant, that is absolutely worth of a stop. Old recipes and extremely fresh ingredients are cooked and combined into a creative and light cuisine.
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