Not only cooking, but also sightseeing, learning Italian, wine-tasting, you name it!
* stay in a seventeenth century farmhouse on an organic olive farm (also a riding centre)
* have daily hands-on cooking lessons with jovial Franca, chef of our farm restaurant, using locally reared meat and, above all, Tuscany’s glory: the variety of vegetables and fruit.
* learn about Tuscan culinary traditions
and the production of wine and olive oil from Jenny, an Oxford graduate who came to Tuscany some years ago and lost her return ticket
* visit local sites of interest not known to the average tourist
* visit a wine farm or have a wine-tasting session with a professional sommelier.
* learn from an experienced teacher useful words and phrases in Italian, such as “delizioso!” and “buon appetito!”
When do the courses take place? We have chosen periods when there is a great variety of local produce on which to base our cooking courses, avoiding, however, the busy tourist season, when flights are more expensive and tourist destinations crowded.
