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Tasting Venice
Cooking lessons and gastro-philosophic walks.
Venetian cuisine is the delicious result of the fervent exchange of ingredients and mixing of cultures, which has played such an important role in this great merchant city's history. Today, the secrets of Venetian cooking are divulged in cooking courses organised by Peccati di Gola and held by Mariagrazia Calò, famous in Italy for her appearances in the popular television cooking programme "La Prova del Cuoco".
The bubbly Mariagrazia teaches students in the kitchen of her home in Sestiere San Polo. In addition to participating in the traditional classes arranged by the company, visitors to Venice can attend one of Peccati di Gola's Gastro-philosophical Meetings: thematic cooking lessons followed by a walking tour of the streets and food markets of Venice in the company of Carla Coco, gastronomy historian and writer.
One of these meetings imparts the secrets of typical Venetian dishes such as salt cod croquettes and rice and Savoy cabbage timbale, together with an excursus of the history of the city's cuisine aided by artworks in Palazzo Querini Stampalia, one time residence of Captain Pietro Querini, the man who "discovered" baccalà (salted cod) in 1431, whilst shipwrecked off Norway. Those wishing to learn about the history and flavours of Jewish and Levantine Venice should be sure to enrol for The Orient in Venice: spices, geese and synagogues course.
Peccati di Gola
San Polo 1421/a
Venezia
Tel. +39 041 5237024
Cell. +39 348 6627650
www.peccatidigola.info
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