A visit to Catania's central fish market will give you a chance to see the ancient city and buy directly from local merchants, anything you like. We will cook together if you like and I will show you the simplicity is authenticity of Sicilian dishes. It will be appreciated by me to point you to the best fish, meat , fruits and vegetables and homemade preserves!

Visit to the fishmarket libertybaroque style Catania

Catania's picturesque Pescheria market is reminiscent of Arab souqs and is famous for the "vociata" or call of vendors trying to sell their fish. Among the stalls, in addition to fresh fish, one can taste boiled octopus, fried fish, oysters, as well as pistachio and nougat. There is also an area where they sell meat, sheep, lamb and horse. Finally, the vegetable and cheese department with the streets covered with hundreds of colorful umbrellas. The visit ends at market from here we will need to move to my house for lunch. At home we will knead fresh pasta and cook it with ingredients bought at the market. We will eat together with our guests a first course of fresh pasta, second course and typical Sicilian dessert.

Market tour of Catania, cook and lunch

Cooking class with three recipes

Guests cook typical Sicilian dishes with seasonal ingredients: ravioli, tagliatelle and tiramisù.

Cooking class with 2 pasta recipes and tiramisù

Historical market tour : a sensorial experience ! Eyesight, sense of smell and taste.Explore and discover the historical fish market " la Pescheria" in Catania is a sensorial unique experience.We will be captivated by the smell of fresh fish that inebriates and tastes of sea, by the voice of fishermen who boats their wares and by the thousand colors of the stalls of fish, fruit and cheese...We will discover the local products and at the end of the visit cook together a typical Catania menu, preparing hand made pasta and using seasonal ingredients. My recipes have been handed down from generation to generation and tell of traditions, everyday life and welcoming sicilian hospitality!

A sensorial experience !Eyesight, sense of smell and taste 

Hands in dough and rolling pin!Don't worry if you have never made pasta by hand, simple yet ancient gestures handed down from grandmothers and mothers will make you discover that it is easy.We will prepare three different types of pasta, even learning how to use a rolling pin. It will be fun and relaxing, and using old family recipes we will season these pastas with ingredients typical of my land where the volcano Etna transforms simple foods into extraordinary in color, aroma and flavor.Among tales of dominations, traditions and legends we will taste together what we have prepared.

Hands in dough and rolling pin!

Catania is a special city, here Etna volcano meets the sea, and our cuisine tells of tradition, daily life and hospitality.We will cook together in a friendly home mixing flavors and knowledge of Sicily, recipes that mothers and grandmothers have handed down and adapted to seasonality.Finally we will taste together what we have prepared and chatting about tradition and hospitality we will "taste Sicily"!

Taste Sicily

Preparing fresh pasta together, completely by hand, through simple gestures that have been handed down for centuries, is an experience discovering the scents, colors and flavors of Sicily.A thousand-year history mixes ingredients typical of my land with the dominations that have come and gone.Following family recipes we will prepare together the dishes symbolic of the Catania tradition and then taste them at the end of our work.

Fresh handmade pasta!
Simple gestures of Sicily

Cous cous is undoubtedly the traditional dish symbolic of Maghreb culture that arrived in Sicily through the Arab dominations. In 2020 it was defined as a Intangible Cultural Heritage UNESCO. I will prepare for you cous cous according to the tradition that my family inherited, it can be either meat or vegetables. I am waiting for you !!!

Cous Cous, between tradition and culture

You will be able to cook and enjoy three traditional recipes.I have chosen a menu that you can make anywhere in the world you will be, it will be a thrill to be able to sit at the table and share what we have made together !! you will be able to admire the view of the Gulf of Catania and my home will welcome you with all the warmth of a Southern family.

Let's cook together 3 traditional Sicilian recipes

Before starting to cook together and "make pasta", we will welcome you with a glass of prosecco and typical Sicilian products. We will make pasta together: ravioli filled with ricotta with sautéed Cerda artichokes, then we will prepare spaghetti alla chitarra with tuna pesto and IGP lemon from Syracuse. We will accompany you on this path with professionalism and sympathy. You will taste all in a welcoming environment, Tiramisù, a dessert of the Italian cuisine tradition, is easy to prepare, but has the characteristics of the best comfort food!!where nothing is left to chance. We are waiting for you!!

I Love pasta with 2 pasta recipes. Tiramisù and aperitivo

Couscous is undoubtedly the traditional dish that symbolizes the Maghrebi culture that arrived in Sicily through the Arab dominations. in 2020, it was defined as a UnESCO intangible cultural heritage. In this experience, we will see together how to prepare this dish that brings people together and "share," and then enjoy it together during dinner. you will have the choice of preparing a meat-based couscous according to the Moroccan tradition or according to the Algerian and Tunisian tradition. We can also prepare a vegetable couscous based on the Algerian tradition.**