I'll be waiting for you for my Campania cooking class to discover the history and origins of local ingredients, learn how to pair flavors, and how to choose the best fresh produce.We start with a typical local dish: eggplant meatballs, made with basil, Parmesan cheese, capers and olives. Then we continue with a great classic, potato gnocchi, topped with tomato and mozzarella sauce, a typical Sorrento recipe.To finish, torta caprese, a dessert born in Capri, very popular in Campania, made with almonds, chocolate and citrus fruits from the Amalfi coast.At the end of the course we sit at the table and eat the dishes we prepared together.My cooking is typical Campanian, with traditional dishes, using first-rate products.

Campania Cooking Class

I will be waiting for you in Positano to learn how to cook a 3-course menu, which we will taste after the event on my terrace overlooking the sea.We will prepare typical, good and tasty dishes, using traditional cooking techniques, local and km 0 ingredients. Once back home, you can use these recipes to impress your guests, from family lunches to dinners with friends!Your Cesarino: "I am a cook, originally from Positano. By traveling to the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and many Italian cities, I have learned new cooking techniques and discovered delicious recipes. I enjoy teaching my guests how to cook bread, fish and meat dishes.... But most of all, I love making fresh pasta!"

Cook fresh pasta like an Italian Grandma enjoying a sea view

A stone's throw from the Amalfi Coast, in Cava de' Tirreni, we offer a unique culinary experience in a villa with a garden to discover the flavors of the Amalfi Coast.We will begin with a toast with wines from our Colli di Castelfranci winery, paired with bruschetta with anchovies from Cetara.We will prepare together two first courses typical of the Amalfi coast and Campanian cuisine: a lemon-scented risotto alla pescatora (with baby squid, clams, mussels, cuttlefish, shrimp, scampi), and a spaghetti with clams.To end the meal, we will taste a homemade tart with our own jam.

Cooking class on the scents of the Amalfi coast

This cooking class in Pompeii includes three recipes followed by a menu in which they will be tasted. In particular, we will cook excellent fresh handmade pasta. There will also be bruschetta with seasonal vegetables and to finish, coffee tiramisu. I am waiting for you to try the flavors of Pompeii.

Handmade pasta in Pompei

Surrounded by lush greenery in Cava de' Tirreni, a municipality just a few kilometers from Salerno and the magnificent Amalfi Coast, Villa Maddalena will welcome you to an environment full of scents and flavors.A nice and tasty appetizer will inaugurate your visit: sliced cold cuts and home-made cheeses with an intense and genuine flavor.Next, you will enjoy a nice production of fresh pasta. The chosen draw is scialatiello seasoned with the typical "red gold" of our fantastic region: San Marzano tomatoes, grown in our countryside and whose preserve is produced by us.Dulcis in fundo, an exquisite tiramisu!Cheers and voila our adventure begins, we will toast with wines from our winery "Colli di Castelfranci".We look forward to seeing you

Campania Fresh Pasta Course

Vico Equense is world famous for pizza.If you want to get your hands in the dough and learn how to make it yourself my house is for you.In a simple,homely and welcoming atmosphere, with the view of Mount Vesuvius as your backdrop and inspiration we will knead pizzas for all tastes.The careful choice of fresh, zero-mile products combined with the satisfaction of having made it with your own hands will allow you to enjoy a pizza you have never tried before.A good local wine and a traditional Neapolitan dessert will make the experience unique and unrepeatable.

Pizza Passion

In this cooking class you'll have the chance to try three different recipes prepared with genuine flavors. We'll start by preparing fresella with cherry tomatoes and mozzarella, a type of typical bread. It will be followed by gnocchi alla sorrentina and we will then end with a traditional but amazing tiramisù.

Cooking Class with fresh pasta and tiramisù

How did they eat in Pompeii and Ancient Rome? How many courses did they typically enjoy, and which recipes have survived to the present day? These are some of the questions I asked myself during my years of studying archaeology and ancient cuisine. Let's discover the answers together through three very special recipes. Are you ready for a journey through history?

How did the ancient Romans eat in Pompeii?

This experience is sweet, indeed... very sweet and takes us back in time. What do the Middle Ages and dessert have in common? Discover it with these three simple yet delicious sweets. What are you waiting for? Join me on this journey through the history and archaeology of food, and in the end, let's taste these splendid dishes together as if in an ancient dwelling.

Scent of the Middle Ages

At the gateway to the Amalfi Coast, in Cava de' Tirreni, we welcome you to the green villa Maddalena.During this experience, I offer you to make different formats of fresh pasta, to be paired with different toppings according to seasonal vegetables: Tomatoes, Squash, Friarielli, Artichokes, Eggplant, Peas, Porcini Mushrooms, and many others.We will make a toast with wines from our Colli di Castelfranci winery, taste our own cold cuts and cheeses, before tasting the different types of pasta made together.We look forward to seeing you in Cava de' Tirreni

Fresh pasta course: cavatelli, tagliatelle, ravioli

This special cooking class features a traditional Sorrento dish: gnocchi alla sorrentina. I will tell you all the secrets of the recipe and then we'll enjoy a delicious first course together! We will also prepare the famous Neapolitan crocchè and "chiacchiere"! You will not believe what you'll taste

Gnocchi alla sorrentina cooking class 

I look forward to seeing you in my tavern, with a wood-burning oven, to prepare these three typical Neapolitan recipes together. We will prepare something unique, a recipe that has been exclusive to my family for generations, namely a pie with the typical flavors of Neapolitan pizza, followed by homemade tagliatelle, with tomatoes grown on Vesuvius, tomatoes with unique flavors. And for dessert the "chiacchiere," which are prepared during family celebrations. So I am waiting for you to start "putting your hands in the dough."

Carbonara di Nola: Cooking classes