Gourmet experiences.
One of the best ways to discover the culture of Italy is through its cuisine. A selection of cooking schools which introduce visitors to the country’s great variety of regional delicacies.
A plateful of Langhe
Scouting out the true taste of Piedmont.
Langhe is the area of Piedmont between and including the cities of Alba, Mondovì and Acqui Terme. In this enchanting landscape of gently... 
A taste of Turin
Where to go and what to eat in the capital of Piedmont.
The city of historic coffee houses, chocolates, agnolotti and bonet: Turin is an Italian gourmet destination par excellence, where tradition...
Delicious Dolomites
Helene Markart's mountain munches
Located in the town of Villabassa, one of Trentino Alto Adige's historic tourist destinations, close to Dobbiaco and the Dolomite Superski,...
Magic cooking pots
Hands-on cooking at Florence''s "Pentola delle Meraviglie".
Barbara Desderi, expert pastry chef and sommelier, is a Florentine who considers her love of cooking to be part of her DNA. As a little girl,...
Taglienti's talent show
The edible exploits of Piedmont's greatest new culinary talent.
The history of Cuneo's Palazzo Lovera, a stunning edifice located right in the center of the town, dates back to the 1500's, when it was built...
Wines of Verona
Cantina Fratelli Zeni's Classic Veronese wines.
Wine and its production are inextricably linked to the history and culture of Veneto, so much so that in medieval times the wines of...
Friuli in a glass
Wine, cherries and the historic cellars of Collio.
Starting with the composition of its terrain, Friuli is a region perfect for grape-growing. The lower plains of Collio, the area where many of...
Lopriore's Canto
Cutting-edge cuisine at the Certosa di Maggiano.
The discovery of the Certosa di Maggiano and its "Il Canto" restaurant is not without its surprises. The traveler who finds himself...
Kitchen Drama
Milan's Teatro 7 restaurant and cooking school.
Milan's lively "Isola" district is home to a cooking school with a difference. Teatro 7 is the name of an innovative gastronomic...
Ravello's Mamma Agata
The secrets of home cooking, Amalfi Coast style.
A state-of-the-art outdoor kitchen on a terrace in Ravello, one of the pearls of the Amalfi Coast, provides the setting for this unique...
Drinking partners
Discovering the wines of Salento in the cellars of Castel di Salve.
Castel di Salve is a place which represents the dynamism of Salento. Here, since 1992, a number of Puglia's finest wines have been produced,...
Plate with a view
Innovative Neapolitan cuisine at Seiano's panoramic L'Accanto.
A terrace with a spectacular view of the Bay of Naples and Vico Equense's picturesque fishing district of Seiano, and a chef, Michele Deleo,...
Wines of Ornellaia
Wines from the vineyards on the Etruscan Coast.
Where the rolling Tuscan Hills meet the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the cypress-lined road to Bolgheri, is the Etruscan Coast Wine Route. This...
Taste laboratory
Cooking lessons, celebrity chefs and theater in Puglia.
A cooking school, catering service, culinary theater, bookshop and emporium: this is Anice Verde, the brainchild of the entrepreneur Pasquale...
Mantarro's Sicily
Chef Massimo Mantarro at Taormina's San Domenico Palace.
In 1866 the Prince of Cerami inherited a 15th century monastery in the ancient seaside town of Taormina. At the time, Taormina was already an...
Winds of change
A trip to Sicily and the historic wine cellars of Marsala.
The history of Marsala wine begins with a storm. In 1773, rough sea conditions forced the wealthy Liverpudlian merchant, John Woodhouse, to...
A Plateful of Naples
From pizza to 18th century haute cuisine, Neapolitan style.
Discover the secrets of Neapolitan pizza, learn the techniques of haute patisserie, or simply acquire some rudimentary cooking skills. Since...
Locanda Don Serafino
Award winning Sicilian cuisine in the Baroque city of Ragusa Ibla.
Situated in the heart of the magnificent baroque city of Ragusa Ibla, in ancient stone buildings which once served as stores for the Church...
Stefano Santo's Onice
Classic Tuscan cuisine with a twist.
To experience a simply amazing view, which extends over the whole of the Tuscan capital is just one of many reasons for paying a visit to...
Conero Red
The cellars on the Wine road of Rosso Conero.
As visitors travelling along the coast of Italy's Marche region approach Ancona, they are greeted by the quite unexpected sight of a mountain...
Chocolate Lessons
Perugia's school for aspiring chocolatiers.
Perugia has long been considered the Italian capital of chocolate, even more so since it started hosting the annual Eurochocolate exhibition,...
Barolo in a cube
Ceretto's celebration of Piedmont's favorite wine
Ceretto, ambassadors of the Langhe. Three generations of wine producers who, for more than seventy years, have represented the excellence of...
Filippo La Mantia
A taste of Sicily At Rome's Majestic, the hotel of the Dolce Vita.
An authentic corner of Sicily, the air laced with the unmistakable aroma of the Mediterranean, awaits those who are lucky enough to book a...
Savory secrets of an ancient abbey
A taste of Tuscany, past and present, deep in the heart of Chianti.
Learning how to make authentic tasting Tuscan cuisine in the kitchen of a thousand year old abbey which has been transformed into farmhouse...
Norbert Niederkofler
An inspirational homage to the flavors of the Dolomites.
Hotel Rosa Alpina's award winning restaurant takes its name from St Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters. Our experience of Norbert...
Italy's oldest grappa
A trip to Bassano and the Nardini distillery.
Grappa is the popular name for Italian grape pomace acquavite. For centuries, this powerful spirit has been one of the symbols of Bassano del...
Valsugana: 180° taste
Caldonazzo's gastronomic laboratory and cooking school.
Lake Caldonazzo is one of the main attractions of Valsugana, a corner of Trentino famous for its Alpine lakes. It is in the picturesque...
Fast cars, slow food
Menus for the festive season from Piedmont's Officina del Gusto.
"A passion for cooking and a vocation for teaching". This is how Daniela Bovo replies when asked what drove her to found the...
Grape craft
Count d'Attimis Maniago's "tongue-cutting" wine.
The green slopes of Friuli's Colli Orientali, just 12 kilometers South of Udine, have, for some 500 years, been the home of a noble family...
Magazine food
Cooking courses for all ages at Milan's Scuola della Cucina Italiana.
Cucina Italiana is not just one of Italy's most loved gourmet magazines, it is also a cooking school, located in Milan's central Piazza...
The art of Pop!
Cantine Ferrari's unique collection of sparkling wines.
The history of "spumante" and the Italian region of Trentino are inextricably linked, and any visit to the city of Trento and its...
Piccolotto's Venice
The chef behind Hotel Cipriani's award winning cuisine.
With an exceptional location in Venice, on the tip of the island of Giudecca, directly opposite the island of San Giorgio, and only a four...
Underground cathedrals
The sparkling secrets in Casa Contratto's wine cellars.
The atmosphere described by Cesare Pavese in his famous novels set in Langhe, still lingers in the streets of Canelli, one of the most...
Chefs by chance
From novice to chef at Genoa's best-ever cooking school.
In 2005 two feisty ladies armed with bags of entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for food, opened a cooking school in the heart of Genoa. The...
Tuscany on your plate
Le Coccole dell'Amorosa and the flavors of the lands of Siena.
An enchanting little cluster of buildings constructed between the 14th and 19th centuries, complete with a medieval piazzetta, loggia and...
A taste of Sorrento
Seaside culinary vacations at the Sorrento Cooking School.
Situated in the small town of Sant'Agnello, which is just ten minutes away from Sorrento, and surrounded by one of the oldest lemon groves on...
Rosè of Salento
The Leone de Castris winery and the history of Puglian wine.
A historic wine cellar and a romantic tale of a family's love of wine, set amidst the hills of Salento. The Leone de Castris wine cellar was...
Relishing Ravello
Pino Lavarra and Palazzo Sasso's Rossellini's Restaurant.
Ravello, the aristocratic charm of which has been enchanting visitors for centuries, provides the breathtakingly panoramic location for a...
Sicilian kitchen
In Sicily, discovering the secrets of the Italian island's flavor-packed cuisine.
Sicily's cuisine is an explosion of color and aromas, the product of a sun kissed land and the diverse civilizations to have inhabited it over...
Edible art
Nino Di Costanzo's creative cuisine at Hotel Terme Manzi.
2 Michelin stars, 5 tables, and an equip of at least 12 cooks: the vital statistics of Ischia's exclusive Il Mosaico restaurant. The...
Rondelli's reds
Liguria's award winning Terre Bianche winery.
The enchanting medieval town of Dolceacqua lies between the Ligurian Sea and rolling green hills carpeted with grapevines and olive trees,...
Wines of Irpinia
Falanghina, Aglianico, Greco di Tufo, Fiano di Avellino.
Falanghina, Aglianico, Greco di Tufo, Fiano di Avellino: the flagship wines of a company which, in the rugged lands of Irpinia, has succeeded...
Mountain Cuisine
The flavors of Val D'Aosta courtesy of Cogne's Hotel Bellevue.
A food and wine itinerary in Val d'Aosta, has to include a visit to Cogne and to the mountain town's Hotel Bellevue: a historic establishment...
All cooked up in Rome
Lessons for professional and amateur cooks in the Italian capital.
With 20 years experience tucked under its belt, "A tavola con lo chef" is one of central Italy's most highly acclaimed cooking...
From Naples with Love
Antonino Cannavacciulo brings a taste of the South to Piedmont.
When a cook from Naples falls helplessly in love with Northern Italy, and in particular, the wonderfully romantic Lake Orta, you can expect...
A Question of Taste
The art of Italian cooking in Spoleto's culinary academy.
Umbria's International Culinary Academy is located just north of the beautifully conserved medieval center of Spoleto, within the elegant...
Worshipping Brunello
The great Tuscan wine in the historic cellar of Abbadia Ardenga.
When wine enthusiasts start talking about Tuscany's Brunello di Montalcino, one of the world's most famous wines, the conversation takes on a...
Cooks by chance
Italian home cooking in the heart of Rome.
The Cuochepercaso (cooksbychance) cooking school is the result of Valeria Vocaturo's passion for home cooking and her desire to create a...
Taste Revival
Flavors of the past in Abruzzo's mountains.
Abruzzo's "Sextantio" was created with the intention of protecting and promoting the identity of the medieval hill village of Santo...
Siena Escapade
A guided tour of the towns and vineyards around Siena.
In the collective imagination the Province of Siena is justifiably considered the quintessential Tuscany and has inspired travellers and...
Recipe from a White City
In the kitchen of one of Puglia's traditional restaurants.
A labyrinth of pretty, white-washed houses blinking under the scorching Mediterranean sun: this is Ostuni, the White City of Puglia. Situated...
The Bertol Twins
A brotherly love - for the flavors of Trentino
Once upon a time there was a house on the edge of the woods. Inside this house two brothers spent all day, and much of the night, conjuring up...
Red revival
The rediscovery of Umbria's Sagrantino di Montefalco.
Even today, debate as to whether the Sagrantino di Montefalco is indigenous to Umbria or not continues. A number of historic sources date the...
Casa Artusi, living cookery museum
A center of gastronomic culture in Forlimpopoli.
A museum which is also a restaurant, library and cooking school. This is Casa Artusi, a center of gastronomic culture in Forlimpopoli,...
Lidia Alciati
The gastronomic inheritance of Guido Alciati, in Langhe.
In the countryside of Piedmont, amidst the rolling hills of Langhe, in a land where some of Italy's greatest wines are produced and highly...
Gourmet heaven
An expedition sampling the fabulous food and wine produced in the heart of Italy.
Good food and wine are things which abound in Umbria. The countryside of this, one of few land-locked regions in Italy, shimmers with the...
Vines of Venice
The Lison Pramaggiore D.O.C. wine road.
From the lagoon villages of Caorle and Bibione, to the banks of the rivers Lemene and Livenza, much of eastern Veneto was used to cultivate...
A lesson with Anna Tasca Lanza
The two souls of Sicilian cooking.
Since the mid 1800's, the Regalreal estate, situated in the heart of Sicily, between Enna and Agrigento, has been the property of the members...
Barone Pizzini's organic bubbles
Eco-friendly wine making in the hills of Franciacorta.
Franciacorta, a name which conjures up a series of images and sensations, of rolling green hills, of welcoming country inns, and of bubbles...
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...
Alain Ducasse
The king of French cuisine and his Tuscan trattoria.
"'Andana" in Italian means a tree lined walk; like the avenue of cypress trees which leads to the Andana Hotel. The Andana is a...
The art of wine in Alto Adige
The inspired viticulture of Alois Lageder.
Alto Adige might be Italy's smallest wine producing area but, thanks to its favorable geographical position, protected from the cold Northern...
Carmelita Caruana
Cook Italy: courses for fans of Italian cuisine.
Mediterranean of both origin and inclination, Malta-born Carmelita Caruana might well have English as her mother tongue, but she is decidedly...
Chianti, a family affair
The Mazzei and the Fonterutoli estate.
Just five kilometres from Castellina in Chianti, there is a tiny, centuries-old hamlet, almost untouched by the passage of time, and a rocky...
Bruno Barbieri
In a 16th century villa close to Verona, menus to delight the senses.
In the heart of Valpolicella, Hotel Villa del Quar stands out in terms of its architectural beauty and the immense value of the art works...
Hot stuff
Origins and evolution of Calabria's peperoncino.
'Diavolillo, pipazza, pipi vruscente, cancarillo'': just some of the names Calabrians call one of the region's most-loved products: the...
Amalfi Coast taste alphabet
The gastronomic specialties of Italy's most beautiful stretch of coast.
The A to Z of the Amalfi Coast kitchen A for Anchovies. For gourmands, the treasure of Cetara, a small fishing village on the Amalfi Coast,...
Italian chocolate makers
Chocolate lover's Tuscany
Whilst chocolate may not feature in Tuscany's ancient confectionary tradition, times have changed, so much so that today the area between Pisa...
Top of the Month
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
A legendary train and the art of the Italian Renaissance.
Art
The art of love
A romantic escape to Verona - where else?
Green
Who let the dogs out?
Hanging out with the canis lupus italicus.
Wellness
When in Rome...
Relaxation in the heart of the Eternal city.
Shopping
Made in Umbria
Couture cashmere, in the province of Perugia.
