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Cooking Schools in Italy and Italian Cooking Vacations Articles

Experience Italian culture through the food. Take a cooking class in Italy.  In fact, you can plan a whole Italian culinary vacation or spend an entire week at one of the many  recreational cooking schools in Italy. Opportunities for culinary learning abound in every region and in each region of Italy you will learn new dishes and culinary traditions. Learn traditional country cooking at a cooking school  in Tuscany or Umbria.  Make your own pasta at a cooking class in Bologna.  Try your hand at cooking seafood in Venice or the Amalfi Coast. Get your apron on, learn how to cook in Italy!




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How to Enjoy Your Italian Cooking Vacation
An American Family in Tuscany
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New Website Links Native Italian Cooks and Visitors (March 2012)
A new "food surfing" community pairs visitors with natives around the world who are willing to share their cuisine and home hospitality, but most of the hosts right now are in Italy. . . . read more
Dine With the Locals with Home Food + Recipe for Italian Pear Cake (Feb. 2012)
I had been trying to attend a Home Food meal at a private home in Italy since I first learned of the organization in the winter of 2005. Somehow the stars never aligned until this past fall when a dinner in Florence fit perfectly in my schedule. And may I say, it was worth the wait… . . . read more
A Magical Maremma Hideaway in Tuscany (Dec. 2011/Jan. 2012)
The renovated castle in one of Tuscany's wild and uncrowded Maremma region offers an upscale escape complete with Tuscan cooking lessons led by the proprietor who is also a cookbook author. . . . read more
Cooking in Piedmont: Lessons in a Lovely Mountain B&B(October 2011)
This combination cooking school and B&B in the region of Piedmont is situated near the top of a mountain, surrounded by snow capped peaks off in the distance. The owners are thrilled to share the local food and wine traditions. . . . read more
What's Cooking at an Agriturismo: Livin' La Tavola Marche (June 2011)
Ashley and Jason Bartner had always envisioned a combination farmhouse and cooking school, and La Tavola Marche is all that and more. Its home. They wanted to find a place where they could live like Italians and where, for a little while, their visitors get to live like Italians, too. . . . read more
Casa Artusi: A Living Museum of Italian Home Cooking (Dec. 2010/Jan. 2011)
This museum and cooking school in Emilia-Romagna is devoted to Pellegrino Artusi, the man who has been called the father of Italian home cooking. . . . read more
Get Schooled in Gelato on Your Next Trip to Italy (July/August 2010)
Have you ever visited a gelateria in Italy and been so enthralled that you fantasized about opening your own gelato shop back home? Well, your dreams can become reality with the training at one of Italy's "gelato universities." One of them even holds classes in the U.S.... . . . read more
Food Tour of the Castelli Romani (Outside Rome) (June 2010)
The towns of Castelli Romani are traditional places for Romans to take a Sunday drive to enjoy peaceful panoramas, the local wine and a perhaps most of all, eat some great food. . . . read more
Cooking School in Puglia, With a Splash of Wine
Who says sense and sensuality can't share the dining table? The Rascazzo sisters educate us with the empowering message that eating in the healthful Mediterranean manner is a feast for all the senses. . . . read more
La Petraia: A Little Piece of Paradise in Tuscany (October 2009)
This organic farm in the heart of Chianti offers cooking classes, gourmet meals, lovely rooms and farm tours. . . . read more
Learn to Cook the Umbrian Way (June 2009)
Ready to roll up your sleeves and go to cooking school in Umbria? We've got the perfect place and the perfect cooking teacher at an agriturismo near Assisi. Plus recommended tour guides in Assisi. . . . read more
Up Close and Personal with Umbria's Truffles (June 2009)
Umbrian truffles are prized throughout Italy. Improve your knowledge of truffles and tempt your palate with a truffle hunt and cooking lessons featuring black and white truffles. . . . read more
The Dream Interview: Catching Up with the Diva of Tuscan Cooking (May 2009)
We catch up with our friend - the diva of Tuscan cooking, chef, cooking school owner, culinary tour guide and now cookbook author - Judy Witts Francini. She shares the secrets of Tuscan cooking and her favorites places to eat in Florence and Tuscany. . . . read more
Ring THIS Bell for Unique Florentine Experiences (July/August 2008)
If you've done the Uffizi, done the Accademia and Santa Croce, and still want something more, how about yoga and cooking classes? Olive-picking excursions? . . . read more
Skiing in Abruzzo: Hitting the Pope's Slopes (November 2007)
Abruzzo's mountainous terrain makes it a natural destination for skiing. In fact, avid skier Pope John Paul II frequently took to the slopes here, sometimes openly but other times incognito, according to his personal secretary Stanislaw Dziwisz. . . . read more
Take a Walk on the Gourmet Side of Venezia with a Culinary Tour of Venice (October 2007)
Venice has a rich and flavorful past, one that can be explored by through history, art and architecture and through one unique Venice tour guide, through food. . . . read more
** How to Enjoy Your Your Italian Cooking Vacation (Free Italy Travel Advice)**
The inside scoop on getting more hands-on cooking instruction, tasting everything and not gaining weight, and more tips for your trip to a cooking school in Italy. . . . read more
Inside Villa d'Este's Culinary World (March 2007)
We pull back the "gastronomic" curtains at Lake Como's exclusive Villa d'Este to discover what makes the hotel's culinary offerings so tempting. . . . read more
Listen Up Foodies!: Visit Gambero Rosso's Citta del Gusto in Rome (Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007)
Experience the ultimate in Italian gastronomy, whether you parli italiano or not. . . . read more
There's an Italian Cookbook for Everyone (July/August 2005)
Peruse the newest in Italian cookbooks. . . . read more
The Dream Interview: Italian Cookbook Author Faith Willinger (June 2005)
Dream of Italy picks the brain of Italian culinary specialist and author of several Italian cookbooks, Faith Willinger, to find out about her favorite Italian ingredients and her weekly Market to Table cooking classes held in Florence. . . . read more
Cooking At Capovento (September 2004)
Cooking classes at a villa in Chianti. . . . read more
Only the Best for Academia Barilla in Parma (July/August 2004 - Updated 2012)
The dream child of the brothers behind Italy's most famous pasta, Academia Barilla is a cooking school in Parma for professionals and amateurs alike. . . . read more
On the Web: Finding an Italian Cooking School(July/August 2004)
Find a cooking school anywhere in Italy with this Web site; If you can't find it here, it probably doesn't exist! . . . read more
A New Kind of Cooking School (May 2004)
At the new University of Gastronomic Sciences, or Università di Scienze Gastronomiche, in Italy, students learn the science of food. To learn more yourself, read on... . . . read more
Cooking with the Divas of Tuscan Cuisine (November 2003)
An overview of the different cooking classes offered in Florence under the tutelage of Judy Witts Francini, Sharon Oddson and Benedetta Vitali. . . . read more
A Jewel of a Cooking School in Tuscany (November/December 2002) Updated 2010
Enjoy people and food at a week long program, Tuscan Women Cook, held in a Tuscan farmhouse. . . . read more