Cooking Classes
Aubergine: the queen of the table
5.0
Filomena
Spoken languages:
Italian, English, Spanish
Cesarina Green
Has pets
Cooking class: learn how to cook traditional & innovative Italian recipes from a local Cesarina
Shared Experience
Your experience
The ultimate summer vegetable, eggplant is the queen of Mediterranean cuisine: grilled, pickled, with pasta, baked, or in the timeless parmigiana. Eggplant parmigiana tastes like home and lazy Sundays, with the aroma of the sauce filling the kitchen. Soft layers of fried or grilled eggplant are combined with fresh tomato sauce, basil, and plenty of Parmesan cheese, with a stringy mozzarella center that wins you over at first bite. Every forkful is a journey into the most authentic flavors. We will prepare it together: hands in the dough, laughter, and the delicious aroma from the oven, accompanied by typical local tastings and glasses of wine.
Remaining char: 500
Total: €123.00
€123.00
per guest€62.00 per child
Reviews
5.0
12 reviews
- Really nice workshop!! We enjoyed it very much and we had a very good teacher. We loved the food!!
- My husband and I had a great time. It was just the 2 of us, Filamena and her delightful daughter. We learned several pasta shapes, 2 sauces, bruschetta, and the most delicious tiramisu. She grows her own herbs, olive oil,the wheat was recently harvested and everything was fresh. She also provided a sampling of fresh local made cheese, meat and red table wine. She told us about the area with love. It was really good. Meeting them and sharing a meal on her terrace was a highlight
- Filomena was an amazing cooking instructor. I felt right at home with her and her family in the kitchen! She showed me so many different techniques for the pasta shapes. Would highly recommend!
- We had a wonderful time with Filomena Cotugno at her cooking class at her lovely home. She was a patient & fun teacher. We made tiramisu & pasta for two dishes. Her daughter was there to help with any language issues & was very sweet. She also provided appetizers & drinks! All of the food we made was excellent & we enjoyed it immensely. Her husband joined us for the meal so it could be a family affair. She shared with us some of her homemade olive oil & limoncello! She even took the time to show us around her beautiful hometown & helped with transportation getting to her house. We would highly recommend Filomena & the Cesarine cooking classes!!
- Big thank you to Filomena and her daughter for a fantastic evening. The cookery class was amazing and we got to learn new skills and tasted foods we had not tried before. We made two types of pasta, tiramisu and bruschetta. Then had the pleasure of eating these with Filomena and her daughter (who was a very good translator- thank you so much!) I would recommend this experience to anyone regardless of any culinary knowledge as Filomena was very generous with her time and talent to help us create wonderful vegetarian food. I’m looking forward to creating these dishes when I get home. This evening has been a highlight of our holiday. Thank you x
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Remaining char: 500
Total: €123.00
€123.00 per guest
Where
Filomena
Cesarina from 2025Location: Matera (MT) Languages: Italian, English, SpanishIn my kitchen, I use only top-quality ingredients, carefully chosen from local producers, and prepared with attention, using the "star" ingredient—our extra virgin olive oil, produced with passion and dedication. I don’t have a single dish that represents me because every day of the year brings a different specialty, created based on the seasonal availability of ingredients and what’s fresh at the moment. The one ingredient that never misses is love—the love I put into preparing and serving each dish, to offer an authentic and unforgettable experience.
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