Italian courses and food classes

Italian cuisine and Italian wines are famous all over the world, and more and more students wish to learn the Italian language and Italian cuisine together. Scuola Toscana offers you two different cooking courses, one where you can study Italian socializing and having fun with cooking classes in Italy, and one more complete and intensive, with a lesson and a different menu every day.

At DA Siena you will study Italian language in the mornings and, twice a week, you will take our hands-on evening cooking classes with our expert Chefs. Experience the beauty of this everlasting course: learn to cook meals that you will actually be able to make for your friends and family for years to come! Our hands-on Italian cooking school begin with the study of ingredients followed by a brief description of the recipes and a detailed step by step process explanation of the four/five course meal you are...

The course caters for all those students who intend attending a training course for chefs or a course of specialisation in Italian Cuisine, and who need adequate language preparation. The course is also recommended for those students who - whatever their job or occupation may be - want to get to know better this fascinating aspect of Italian culture.

Live in a private Italian house and cook typical Tuscan dishes with “La mamma”. In these sessions you’ll not only learn the recipes and tricks of Tuscan home-cooking, but you’ll also communicate in Italian, improving your spoken Italian in an authentic family environment.

2 weeks program, 4 classes (3 hours each) - Total: 12 hours Starting date: every week If, beyond learning Italian in Italy and a full immersion study abroad stay, you also want an advanced cultural experience in Bologna, you can choose our Italian plus CULTURE courses and combine them with our Italian language courses. History, Art History, Literature Bologna is perfectly situated to offer Italian language students easy access to the beautiful and historically important treasures of North Italy.

The course in home cooking does not have a professional character and is intended to familiarise students with the Italian familiar typically dines. During the course the participants will learn in a practical manner the basic principles of Italian cooking, such as pasta, stews, bread and pizza and the typical dishes of Italian regional cuisine, such as saffron rice from Lombardy and pasta alla Norma from Sicily.

A course of a mainly practical nature aimed at providing basic concepts and information regarding the main Tuscan and Italian wines and their combination with the main dishes of Italian cuisine. This course must be attended together with a language course.

For one week you’ll literally have your hands in pasta alongside a “real master” in this field, grandma Maria that will teach you all her secrets in the Apulia cuisine! Together you’ll prepare traditional Apulian dishes , such as the famous handmade “orecchiette”, “la focaccia”, “panzerotti”, “taralli“, or traditional italian dishes like “ravioli”, “gnocchi”, “polpettone”, and many others, including vegetarian recipes with very organic ingredients grow in the private Granma’s garden. The course “Cooking...

Program: The Food and Wine Story Communicating food, wine and “terroir” effectively, through different channels: That’s what Food Storytelling does. From journalism to marketing, the Food and Wine story is the means that allows us today to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.

Sicily boasts one of the richest and most succulent gastronomic traditions in Italy. Come and learn how to cook some of the dishes that have made Sicilian cuisine so popular around the world.

Do you know Etna wines? Have you ever tried them? Over the past 30 years, Etna wines have become among the most popular wines on the Italian wine scene. Every year, investment in vineyards on and around Mount Etna increases.