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The real taste of Tuscany

Tuscookany has more than 10 years experience in giving Cooking Vacations in Italy in our luxurious villas.  You stay in stylish accommodation in the villa and cook in our well equipped villa kitchens with people from all over the world. Enjoying your meals together with your fellow cooks complimented with superb Italian wines. Plenty of time to explore the area or just relax and enjoy your home away from home in a spectacular setting with new friends.  We offer one week cooking holidays and have recently introduced a 3 day Italian cookery course for limited weeks at Torre del Tartufo

Italian Cookery Course

  

Italian Mediterranean Cookery Course

Learn to make complete 4 course Italian dinners covering all the basic Italian cooking techniques. You will make a wide range of Anti pasta's including Crostini's, Bruschetta and Torte Verdura to mention but a few.
You will make your own Gnocchi and roll out your own Pasta - the authentic way with typical Tuscan fillings and delicious sauces. On top of that you will learn to make pizza which is baked in our own wood burning pizza oven. Meat dishes include Wild Boar with polenta, Tagliata with green pepper sauce and baked vegetables and much much more. Desserts include Poala's famous Panna cotta or Franco’s warm lemon pie with Italian meringue.

The Italian cookery course is given by our Italian chef Paola Baccetti in Casa Ombuto and by Franco Palandra in Torre del Tartufo.

They will teach you to cook 4 splendid 4 course Italian dinners where you will learn the passion of the Italian kitchen and have fun doing it.

For the 3 day Italian cookery course given at Torre del Tartufo, Franco Palandra will teach you to cook 2 delicous four course dinners, you will join the group on their full day excursion too.  This course starts on Mondays and ends on Thursdays - see the contact page for selective weeks that we offer this course.

Learn to make dishes from four of the most popular cuisines in Europe and North Africa. In one week you will make an elaborate Italian dinner, a light Spanish lunch, an exotic Moroccan dinner, a traditional French Provencale supper, and on top of that learn to make various breads and pastries - all in one week! You will learn to make risotto, pasta's, Foccacia, Tapenade, Ratatouille, Gaspacho, Tortilla, Tagine of chicken, spicy couscous and much much more.

In essence the focus is on using fresh ingredients in season which are prepared to ensure that taste is paramount. You can guess which country is being focused on by the smells coming out of the cantina each day!
The Italian Mediterranean cookery course is given by International chef Laura Giusti. This course is more intensive than our Italian cookery courses as it also includes two extra morning sessions - one specialising in Breads Pastries and the other is a light Spanish Lunch.

We pride ourselves in having organic vegetable gardens and use vegetables in season from our own plots.  We also purchase produce from authentic local producers and farmers.  To reduce our Carbon footprint our villas and pools are solar heated and we only use wood derived from maintaining our forests.  All our water comes from our own water wells.

All our chefs believe that the only way to learn to cook is to do it yourself. While they will demonstrate the techniques, be prepared to roll up your sleeves and put what you have seen into practice. The lessons are informal and the chefs are flexible and willing to add those special dishes you always wanted to learn to make.
The cooking weeks in Casa Ombuto are from Saturday to Saturday and in Torre del Tartufo from Sunday to Sunday. You will have cooking lessons on 4 of the days with enough time to relax and enjoy the surroundings or to do some sight seeing in the area.
A one-day excursion is organized with visits to a salami factory, pecorino and goat cheese farm and an olive oil mill for oil tasting. It also includes wine tasting and lunch at a vineyard near Arezzo, time for shopping in Arezzo and sightseeing. At the end of the day a visit to a Tuscan fabric manufacturer in Anghiari and it’s rounded off with an informal dinner back at your villa after a long but fun day.

It is also possible to bring along a non-participating partner who can spend the day enjoying the surroundings, sightseeing or playing golf and could then join the group at dinnertime and join in the excursion.

For both courses you will receive a cookbook including recipes of all the dishes made during your stay, an exclusive apron and a certificate on completion of the course. The chefs have chosen dishes that can easily be made at home and using ingredients that you generally can also find in most specialty or general stores.

For more information regarding the chefs and their menus click on their photographs below:

Paola Baccetti

Chef Italian cookery course at
Casa Ombuto

Laura Giusti

Chef Meditarrenean cookery course at
Casa Ombuto

Franco Palandra

Chef Italian cookery course at
Torre del Tartufo
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