Cooking classes

Learn the secrets of Italian Aperitif!

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Ofelia

Rome

Duration 2h

Max 10 guests

Spoken languages:  Italian and English

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

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  • Aperitif with local specialties

For every Italian, from north to south, from snow to sea, the aperitivo is sacred! Convivial and cheerful, aperitivo time is also a good excuse to relax with friends over a good glass of prosecco or a cool cocktail. But the most fun thing is to put your imagination to the test in preparing the many tastings to set on a self-respecting aperitif table. On this occasion we will taste together some of the classic appetizers that accompany this event so important to our culture, some of which we will prepare together, clever and impressive recipes that we can show off at the first useful aperitif!

Vegetarian

Total: €153.00

€153.00 
per guest

€77.00 per child

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5.0
77 reviews
Ofelia taught our family to make home made pasta, ravioli, antipasti, and more. We had the best time. Ofelia is a warm and gracious host, a knowledgeable and impressive woman, and we are all grateful to have had the opportunity to spend an afternoon cooking, laughing, and drinking wine.

Angela B - November 2025

Ofelia and Leonardo were wonderful hosts and made us feel right at home. Our visit to Rome was of course filled with great food, but Ofelia’s homemade pasta and tiramisu was the culinary highlight of our trip. The experience was both intimate and professional. My wife and I would highly recommend going out of your way to visit Ofelia’s cooking class at her home.

Brian  - November 2025

Ophelia and Leonardo were the most amazing hosts! They welcomed us into their home and shared stories of their families, lives and culture. Ophelia taught us how to make bruschetta, fresh pasta, sauces and a very easy to replicate Tiramisu all of which tasted phenomenal. Highly recommend spending time with Ophelia if you love learning to cook and experiencing true Italian hospitality. The whole experience felt as though we were having fun with old friends!

Phill - October 2025

We still talk about what a wonderful evening we had in Rome! We met up with Ofelia for some shopping and then to her apartment to cook! She taught us how to make pasta — and we ate and drank and had a wonderful evening of conversation and laughter!

Kathleen - October 2025

We had an amazing cooking class with Ofelia. Who knew I could make such tasty pasta. Fresh ingredients for amazing dishes that were enhanced by her amazing knowledge of food and Italian history. So worth the time to attend at her beautiful apartment.

Marie F - October 2025

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Ofelia
Cesarina from 2022Location: Rome    Languages: Italian and English
Mine is a cuisine that starts above all from traditional family recipes. I was born in Calabria, but mine is a family branched out in cultural and consequently also culinary history. A great-grandmother of a Jewish family married to a great-grandfather an aviator American, another who abandoned dancing with the consuls for a marriage with an intellectual of peasant origins, all united with the Calabrian mountain tradition.From the branch of Jewish origins I took the great love for sweet and sour, for fermented recipes and spicy scents, from the noble branch some recipes that I discovered to be relatives of sometimes Sicilian and sometimes Neapolitan cuisine (from the Kingdom of the two Sicilies:), some that I have never happened to find in other houses. I moved to Rome almost twenty years ago to study and I stayed there, here I also assimilated some recipe books from my partner who is a Roman from Trastevere, making my own super recipes rlatives of the Roman tradition, such as the first classics or the Maritozzi, which I often personalize with fillings that bring me and my guests back to Calabria! 
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