Cooking Classes
Culinary traditions of Lucca, pasta and desserts
5.0
Margherita
Spoken languages:
Italian, English, Spanish, French
Cooking class: learn how to cook traditional & innovative Italian recipes from a local Cesarina
Shared Experience
Your experience
- Tuscan bruschetta (tomato, oregano, black cabbage)
- Fresh, handmade semolina pasta
- Buccellato from Lucca or Tuscan cantucci
We’ll meet at an ancient 12th-century farmhouse in the hills of Lucca to discover the secrets of homemade fresh pasta. We’ll start by making Lucca’s traditional dessert: buccellato with cream and fruit, also known as ‘zuppa Lucchese’, or traditional Tuscan cantucci with almonds. We will then move on to making durum wheat pasta, shaping each fusillo or picio by hand, and the typical Tuscan brschete with extra virgin olive oil, tomato and oregano, or with black cabbage in winter. To help you grasp all the secrets behind the deliciousness of these traditional dishes, I will also explain how to prepare the accompanying sauces. At the end, we will enjoy the dishes prepared during the lesson with a glass of wine.
Vegetarian
Remaining char: 500
Total: €135.00
€135.00
per guest€67.50 per child
Reviews
5.0
7 reviews
- What an experience is the cooking class of Margherite! With kindness and patience she shares her skills and knowledge of traditional recipes. You can see (and taste) her passion for organic farming and cooking. And you cook in a beautiful kitchen and eat in a idyllic garden. I really enjoyed it!
- Splendid presentation by Margherita on all aspects of organic olive oil. Informative, fun, and delicious. Highly recommended!!
- My visit to Margherita's olive farm exceeded my expectations! I am so impressed with the work she has done to begin the long process of rehabilitating the olive farm that was abandoned and unmaintained for so many years! It is remarkable to see an agricultural restoration project that aims not for production only, but for restoring a harmonious balance in nature that leaves room for all to thrive - the plants and flowers, and birds and bees, and herbs and grasses and of course her beautiful olive trees. I hope all visitors will support her adopt-an-olive-tree project! We need more dedicated agricultural enthusiasts who believe in paying attention to nature holistically! Thank you for everything! And PS the lunch on your beautiful farm was delicious.
- What an incredible, delightful, and delicious experience! Margherita was a fantastic tour guide and hostess! I learned so much. Her passion for her farm project is contagious. Her commitment to organic farming is commendable and is in line with my values. The homemade food was wonderful and the presentation beautiful. I’m honored to have adopted an olive tree and I highly recommend this experience to anyone who visits Lucca!
- I cannot say enough about what a great experience this was. Marguerita was a perfect hostess with a small breakfast cake upon arrival and fresh coffee. We then embarked on our cooking journey making pastas, and tiramisu. The villa is beautiful and in the Tuscan HIlls surrounded by fresh herb gardens and Olive trees. She was so patient and kind. An excellent teacher and listener. She never winced once at the mistakes I made! We sampled our dishes and talked all about her childhood growing up cooking traditional Tuscan dishes with her mother and grandmother. She is such an accomplished young woman! Definitely book with her for your Tuscan cooking experience!
Tatjana -
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Lorenzo -
Bruce Parkhurst -
Stacey Dickinson -
Stacey Thomas -
Remaining char: 500
Total: €135.00
€135.00 per guest
Where
Margherita
Cesarina from 2023Location: Lucca (LU) Languages: Italian, English, Spanish, FrenchMy cuisine is healthy and sustainable, made with natural seasonal products that I harvest and process myself. These are either grown on our farm or sourced from a network of responsible local producers. My preference is to offer vegetarian dishes inspired by the traditional Lucchese Tuscan cuisine, with international influences. For two years now, I have been researching and experimenting with dishes based on herbs, vegetables, and flowers to showcase and familiarize people with the landscape of Lucca's olive groves through the senses.
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