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Market tour and authentic Sicilian cooking experience

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Mariella

Messina

Duration 4h

Max 5 guests

Spoken languages:  Italian and English

Follow your Cesarina in a local market tour and challenge yourself with a hands-on cooking class

Private Experience
Your experience
  • Fries with market products, focaccia messinese and bruschette with salumi e tipycal products
  • Paccheri with maccu di fave
  • Tiramisu or cannoli or white and black

We'll take our guests on a journey through the city's vibrant market, a place brimming with enticing scents, vivid colors, and lively atmosphere. We'll procure exceptional seasonal products characterized by their incredible flavor. Then, together, we'll dive into hands-on preparation of tagliatelle alla Norma and either the classic tiramisu or traditional Sicilian cannoli for dessert. To round off the experience, we'll serve sparkling wine, set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Strait of Messina. All of this will be accompanied by a glass of fine red wine.

Total: €189.00

€189.00 
per guest

€94.50 per child

Reviews
5.0
30 reviews
What an experience! Like no other! If you want a true authentic Italian experience, this is it!

Suzanne - June 2025

We loved our experience with Mariella. It was so nice of her to open her house up to us and help show us how to make a bunch of Sicilian treats. Come hungry because you will leave as full as you have been in a while. Mariella was great and fun to talk to. Very very little English but was easy to communicate through google translate. We would recommend it to anyone looking for a very authentic Sicilian experience.

Ryne - June 2025

This experience at Mariela’s home was fantastic! For the food enthusiast who want to learn great Italian cooking by a warm and friendly person, book this! Highly recommend this experience!

Gerard A - April 2025

Great experience! Mariella was awesome and the food was amazing! We will definitely be taking what we learned home with us and try to replicate the authentic Italian food that we made! We ate so much enjoying our creations we didn't have to eat the rest of the day!

Jeff G. - April 2025

We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Mariella. She met us in the square, then we went for a caffè in a nearby local shop. We then went to her home/apartment where we began our lesson. Through google translate, we were able to converse. Mariella spent the next few hours teaching us how to make homemade pasta, ravioli, meatballs, and other local dishes, all which were amazing. My husband and I really enjoyed our experience. The only thing that would have made this experience over the top would have been to have 1-2 other couples involved.

NanC - December 2024

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Mariella
Cesarina from 2023Location: Messina    Languages: Italian and English
My cuisine is linked to tradition with a touch of poetic license for some foods, which are too strong for me. Born and raised in Messina, I actually learned the Messina tradition when I grew up, because my parents were originally from Gioiosa Marea and Piraino, provinces of Messina but with several differences in methodology. I try to combine these diversities in a taste that is, I would say, pleasant. I like to know and above all I would like these traditions not to disappear.
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