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Cooking Schools in Italy and Cooking Vacations Articles

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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!

The following articles are free for all readers to access:

How to Enjoy Your Italian Cooking Vacation
An American Family in Tuscany
A Chocoholic's Dream Come True in Perugia (Umbria)
Italy Events Calendar: What's Happening in Italy This Summer and Fall

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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 (November 2009)
Who says sense and sensuality can't share the dining table? The Rascazzo sisters run a cooking and wine school 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
A Year of Gastronomy: One Woman's Reawakening in Italy (March 2009)
What does a 50-something romance writer who recently went through a divorce do to jazz up her life? Why run off to Italy of course to take part in a unique gastronomy learning experience. . . . 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
Sicily: Adventures in Cooking (Schools and Classes) (March 2008)
If you're a curious person who enjoys cooking, the idea of replicating some of Sicilian culinary marvels at home may appeal. The best way, of course, is to watch Sicilian cooks in action. . . . read more
Get Cookin' in Abruzzo: Cooking Schools and Tours in Abruzzo (November 2007)
A few companies now offer cooking vacations specializing in Abruzzese cuisine! . . . 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
Cooking School in Campania: Arthur Schwartz's Cook at Seliano (June 2007)
As readers in the New York area surely know, Arthur a.k.a. the Food Maven was the host of "Food Talk" on WOR Radio for 13 years. He's also a food writer and author of Naples at Table, the first cookbook in English about the foods of the region. . . . 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
Le Marche, One Mouthful at a Time (March 2007)
This cooking school provides a great way to experience the little-known gem of Le Marche through the preparation of fresh and delicious local dishes. . . . 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
Noteworthy Travels: Special Tours of Italy (September 2006)
Enjoy the sweetest tour that Italy has to offer -- Malcom Stogo's Gelato Tour of Italy. Or experience this year's olive harvest in the hills outside of Rome. . . . 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 (July/August 2004)
Demonstration and participation cooking courses at Parma's Barilla Center. . . . 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
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