Cooking Classes

Hands-on cooking: lasagne, cannelloni and pinza

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Eleonora e Federico

Bologna (BO)
Duration 3h
Max 10 guests
Spoken languages:  
Italian, English, Spanish, French
Has pets

Cooking class: learn how to cook traditional & innovative Italian recipes from a local Cesarina

Shared Experience
Your experience
  • Classic Mortadella Mousse with Crescenta Bread
  • Cannelloni
  • Traditional Bolognese lasagne (green spinach/nettle) with ragù (which we will make together).
  • Torta Tenerina (traditional chocolate cake)

I’ll be gathering nettles for my Bolognese lasagne along the secluded paths in the hills behind my house: you’ll chop them up and mix them into the dough.

We’ll have an aperitif with mortadella (my own recipe) whilst the dough rests, then we’ll roll out the lasagne sheets with a rolling pin. During a second rest period: mise en place and preparation of the béchamel sauce. We’ll use the same pasta for cannelloni au gratin: the filling? Meat, or ricotta and spinach, or… always perfect with their golden crust. We’ll finish on a sweet note with ‘pinza’, an old-fashioned and irresistible recipe.

Total: €242.00

€121.00 
per guest

€61.00 per child

Reviews

5.0
23 reviews
We had wonderful night with these beautiful people. So welcoming and warm. The cooking class was definitely a highlight of our time in Bologna!

Kathy and Robert - 

We had a wonderful time in our class! They were wonderful hosts! We got to choose to make certain pasta dishes and then enjoy them on their wonderful back terrace in what is just a most beautiful and quaint neighborhood! We got to experience a piece of Bologna we never would have without them! Can not recommend this enough to anyone who is from beginner to food/cooking enthusiast! It was fun, informative, and delicious!

E and C - 

Super nice hosts, we learned a lot and are super thankful for the nice evening we had!

Lukas Greber - 

Eleonora & Federico were fabulous hosts making our cooking class very memorable. We can’t thank them enough for the warm hospitality we received. We enjoyed the class which was not only very informative but also relaxed. We can’t recommend Federico & Eleonora highly enough!! Again thank you so much Federico & Eleonora!!

Dennis - 

What an absolute treat this was! This experience needs to be on the top of your list when in Bologna. Frederico and Eleonora we next level hosts. Right balance of history, local perspective on ingredients and educational cooking experience. When you are in their home you are not friends, you are family.

Ben - 

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Eleonora e Federico

Cesarina from 2025Location: Bologna (BO)    Languages: Italian, English, Spanish, French
We cook dishes from the Bolognese and Romagnola tradition, but we also love to be inspired by other cuisines, which make our table more lively and flavorful. Tradition is our certainty, imagination the means to reinvent it. In our kitchen, seasonality guides the senses, and the search for harmony on the plate is often a topic of discussion between us, as we have shared a passion for good food for forty years — a passion that started in a restaurant! We inherited our love for cooking from our families: Eleonora from her mother, a painter, and her grandmother, a passionate homemaker; Federico from his grandmother, a master of lasagna and crème caramel, his father in passatelli, and the “dada” in the world’s best roast beef. For ten years we ran a shop-laboratory in the center of Bologna, where tradition and creativity met under the porticoes amid aromas, chatter, and the curiosity of passersby and tourists.
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