Food & Wine Tours
Market Tour and Cooking class in Palermo
5.0
Follow your Cesarina in a local market tour, challenge yourself with a hands-on cooking class followed by a tasting of the recipes prepared during the lesson
Private Experience
Your experience
- Sicilian Seasonal Starter
- Handmade pasta with seasonal sauce
- Sicilian seasonal dessert
In this experience, you will enjoy a nice and vibrant Capo Market tour, one of the most popular outdoor markets in Palermo, where you will learn how to select on the stalls the best seasonal ingredients for our cooking class and as a Gastronome I will explain about the seasonality of the products, those typical of the territory and their varieties. Next, we will move back home for a hands-on cooking class on how to prepare a Sicilian starter, a First course of a fresh Sicilian pasta, and a Sicilian dessert. At the end of the class, we will enjoy these dishes for lunch, and in spring/summer season in my cozy terrace.
Reviews
5.0
112 reviews
- Fabulous lunch with gracious hosts. The market tour was informative and Alice and Francesco prepared a delicious lunch with stories about the food and how the recipes were passed from grandparents and regional differences. Highly recommend.
- Our class with Alice was just perfection. From the warm welcome, to the recipes we made and the wonderful chats we had. This was exactly the authentic pasta experience I was looking for in Italy. My husband and I booked there for a date night and it was so special. We cooked two types of pasta, ravioli and busiate. Alice taught us how to make beautiful ravioli stuffed with aubergine filling and delicately decorated with basil leaves rolled into the pasta! Then we rolled the busiate shapes and she taught us 5 other pasta shapes. We also made tiramisu which is the best I have ever tasted! No, I am not exaggerating. How lucky am I to have the recipe! We had soooo much fun. Of course the best part actually was the END of the class because with a candle lit dinner we all ate the freshly cooked pasta and ate as much tiramisu as our belly could hold. Hands down the best pasta we had on our entire vacation! HUGE BONUS right in the centre of Palermo!! If you are thinking of booking, do it now!
- We had an absolutely wonderful time at Alice and Francesco's home for our Italian cooking lesson. From the moment we arrived, they made us feel incredibly welcome. Alice and Francesco were fantastic hosts and instructors. They were not only knowledgeable but also very patient, taking the time to explain each step of the pasta-making process in detail. Their kitchen was impeccably clean and organized, which made the whole experience even more enjoyable. The food was simply outstanding! The pasta we made was delicious, and the tiramisu was the perfect way to end the meal. While the pasta was cooking , they had thoughtfully prepared a lovely aperitif for us to enjoy as we settled in, setting the perfect tone for the meal. Overall, it was a memorable experience that we would highly recommend to anyone looking to learn the art of Italian cooking. Alice and Francesco are warm, professional, and incredibly skilled at what they do. We can't thank them enough for such a delightful meal!
- What a fabulous experience! I completely enjoyed my cannoli making class with Alice. Both she and her partner, Francesco, are so knowledgeable about the science behind the cooking and could not have been lovelier to be around. Making a recipe passed down from Alice's nonna in the very apartment where she grew up made it even more special. She patiently showed me the MANY steps required for making the shells and, in the end, the cannoli were DELICIOUS! The conversation was great and Alice even made me a little package to take home with leftover shells, a small piping bag with the cream and bit of the orange peel and pistachios. In fact, I just ate two of them (the day after the class). I would highly recommend this experience!
- Simply amazing with2 wonderful hosts who showed me so many tips and I am very pleased with the cooking we did and I’m going to share it with the Sicilian cafe downstairs ! I thoroughly recommend booking a course with Alice. A first class experience with top professionals who will bring out the best in you - perfetta!
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€189.00 per guest
(€94.50 per child)
€189.00 per guest
€189.00 per guest
€94.50 per child
Where
Alice
Cesarina from 2022Location: Palermo Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French"I was passionate about cooking and food since I was a child, accomplices grandmother who loved to cook and the whole family who loves to eat well. I therefore decided to pursue a university career in the field of gastronomy. I have faced a multidisciplinary and holistic path that has treated the world of food at 360 o'clock. I love cooking for my family and for others, starting from the choice of recipes and the selection of ingredients. I like to experiment and I'm particularly passionate about pastry and leavened foods. I do research on ancient cookbooks and asking around, especially older ladies, their family recipes. Sicily, like all Italy, has an invaluable gastronomic heritage, whose recipes and preparations vary from house to house, not only between cities and provinces. This gives the palate the opportunity to enjoy the same traditional dishes with different ingredients, techniques and stories."
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