Antonella
Cesarina from 2023My speciality: Eggplant parmigiana
I live in: Gragnano
Spoken languages: Italian and English
Good to know
I offer vegetarian alternatives
Hi from Antonella!
I love cooking dishes based on meat and vegetables, mostly grown in the family garden
My specialities
- Eggplant parmigiana
Experiences
Reviews
5.0
2 reviews
- We had the most wonderful experience with our hosts. They were incredibly warm and so very generous in sharing their passion for the food, cooking and regional details. We felt so comfortable and at home with them. They included us in every step of the process and it was so fun! This was an incredible highlight of our trip and would strongly recommend this experience. We will remember for a lifetime.
- We signed up for this experience in Gragnano and it was the most magical day ever. We spent four hours cooking, eating, learning and making new friends. My wife and I came to Campania following Stanley Tucci’s example of learning Italy by region. We hoped for an authentic experience and we were gifted with it in abundance. Antonella is a skilled artist of Neapolitan cuisine and Gabriella is an educator and storyteller of southern Italy and all things food - especially pasta. I think we know of maybe 20 different types of pastas here in the USA - you can easily multiply that by 10 in Italy … and every single pasta has a specific use and should be eaten in a certain way. We learned a lot about Gragnano which is the crème de la crème of pasta. Antonella’s uncle owns a pasta factory and we were sure to bring some home. We made gnocchi together and Antonella just couldn’t feed us enough - zeppoli (they put sage in them here), these amazing eggplant and mozzarella filled appetizers that I think was called porcetta de la manzana, the best eggplant Parmesan I’ve ever had, Braciole - and it was topped off with Easter cake, Pastiera. The setting? Antonella’s home is set atop a hill overlooking her gardens and the countryside with the sea in the background. Here the rosemary plants grow 20 feet tall. She has beautiful gardens as well as lemon, orange and olive trees. This is definitely one of those days we will always look back on and say “How are we so blessed?”
Nadine - September 2024
Debra & Darryel - April 2024