Hands-on cooking class with starter, pasta and dessert followed by lunch and dinner with the recipes prepared during the class
- Grandmother salad
- Tagliatelle with almod pesto and basil
- Tiramisù
I love to enrich traditional dishes with a modern twist, respecting, indeed, enhancing the scents and flavors of our land.
I will explain how to prepare three typical dishes. Grandma's salad, a typical dish of Catanese folk tradition, becomes a gourmet dish when quality ingredients are used, such as datterini, oregano "scopazza," soft salted ricotta, and e.v.o. nocellara dell'Etna oil. Almond pesto pasta, a traditional recipe from Catania, is enhanced by new scents and flavors, such as lemon zest, etc. Tiramisu, a dessert now traditional in all parts of Italy, becomes "Sicilian" with the addition of "marsala" wine. Before all this you can enjoy various samples of Sicilian tradition.
Reviews
- Mr. Maurizio was great. As soon as we signed up for a food tasting. He contacted me to know what my food dislikes were. He stayed in contact until we entered Catania, Italy. He contacted me to set up a time and location according to where our hotel was located. On the food tour, Mr. Maurizio met with us and we walked around the center of Catania, giving us a tour of the city. He was very knowledgeable of the center and the monument's. We also tasted wine on our walking tour. We tried food and desserts that we would not have ever tried. They were good. We enjoyed Mr. Maurizio. He is very nice, respectful and professional. He also gave us suggestions on some tours to take and we did. Thank you Mr. Maurizio for everything. You made our food tour an experience to remember. Janice H.
- Our evening with Maurizio and his charming sister exceeded our expectations.From the appetizers through dessert, all of the dishes were incredible. We enjoyed learning to make pasta, tiramisu and pork cutlets under the supervision of this entertaining brother and sister team. To top off the evening, Mauricio treated us by sharing his musical talent, playing our favorite Billy Joel hits on the piano. Our evening hosted by Maurizio will definitely be remembered as a highlight of our time in Catania.
- I highly recommend doing this, it was so much fun. When we arrived at Chef Maurizio’s house there was a table full of antipasto and refreshments waiting for us. Did not take long for Chef Maurizio and his lovely sister to put us to work making the pasta. That’s when the fun started, there were eggshells in the dough and they started bickering, like siblings do, on who was at fault, this was so funny. I over soaked the lady finger for the tiramisu on purpose so I could get in on the bickering :) It really felt like I was at home cooking with my family. They had us laughing, slicing, dicing and drinking throughout the day. Everybody participated in the cooking and laughing. So be prepared to work and eat. But the memories will remain forever!
Janice H. - June 2024
Kinley Family - May 2024
Antoine - May 2024
€135.00 per guest
(€68.00 per child)
€135.00 per guest
€135.00 per guest
€68.00 per child