Unique experience to learn typical Italian cuisine. Learn from me how to make fresh handmade pasta. It's a great feeling when starting with simple ingredients like flour and water you can make high quality dishes with unforgettable flavor! We will prepare three different types of pasta together : orecchiette, cavatelli and tagliatelle. It will be pleasant to cook together and in the company of a nice glass of wine ! At the end of the preparation of pasta ,I will be happy to cook for you and serve you excellent dishes of fresh pasta made with your own hands!

Hands in the dough! Cooking class with 3 recipes

We will live together a unique experience in our small country Masseria immersed in the characteristic landscape of Apulia, with an expanse of olive trees leading to the sea and a view from above of the entire landscape below.Together we will return to the past discovering the traditions and preparing together the famous orecchiette. Each of you will have everything you need to follow a lesson given by Maria, our Cesarina. This will be followed by the preparation of orecchiette with tomato sauce, goat cacioricotta cheese and fresh basil that we will collect from our garden.

In Masseria da Maria

Welcome to my authentic trullo! Here you find the typical atmosphere of Puglia, with a delicious aperitif coming. I serve pittule, typical Puglia fritters, prepared with flour, yeast, water, olive oil and a pinch of salt. The experience continues with the fresh pasta course, have fun making pasta and creating two typical recipes with me: orecchiette and strascinati, accompanied by meat and vegetable sauces, according to taste. Together we will choose the best local types of flour and products to use, and you will become a true expert of Pugliese fresh pasta!To conclude sweetly, you can put yourself in the shoes of a pastry chef and make tiramisu. I await you for an inviting apéritif based on Pugliese products and wines and a special local fresh pasta cooking class!

Orecchiette pasta making class in Alberobello

We will live a unique experience together in our small country farmhouse immersed in the characteristic landscape of Apulia, with stretches of olive trees leading down to the sea and a view from above of the entire landscape below. Together we will travel back to the past, discovering traditions and preparing the famous orecchiette together. Everyone will have everything they need to follow a lesson. This will be accompanied by the preparation of orecchiette pasta with tomato sauce, goat's cacioricotta cheese and fresh basil that we will pick from our vegetable garden.

Apulian market tour and a 4-course menu

Sensory food.Cooking is art, pleasure, knowledge and love of tradition. When I cook all my senses are activated:sight for choosing products, smell for freshness, mouth to savor cooking, ear for the change of noise in boiling, and touch for making pasta.Even the act of dragging some dough on a work surface has its tactile sensory, there is a lot of intimacy to making it.The choice and quality of products come first.Each preparation becomes a shared experience in one place, my kitchen, with no barriers, all in open space, all to the personal involvement of those present.This makes in a short time become family, because it is family that unites and makes a place a cozy and relaxing place: comfortable.

Typical 4-course dining experience with pasta and focaccia

The kitchen dedicated to Valentine's Day is designed to give love, everyone gives love in their own way, I like to do this by cooking for you in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere.My kitchen is an open space, where preparing becomes a "dance" show as I tell you stories, legends, memories and anecdotes behind each recipe. I will prepare for you bruschetta with truffle pate, a first course with porcini mushrooms and dessert, as tender as your heart. There will be no shortage of first-rate prosecco, homemade limoncello and coffee.In its simplicity it will make the difference to welcome you with love to make you feel like in a warm embrace.

A culinary experience to share with a loved one

I await you in my ancient trullo, among the almond trees, olive trees and enchanted alleyways of Alberobello, to experience an unforgettable moment, made up of flavors and colors typical of Pugliese culinary art.Together we learn three typical Pugliese recipes, from appetizer to dessert, and put our hands in pasta to make the striscianti, with its very special shape, evoked by its name. To finish, the Pugliese cartellate, following the family recipe, that has been passed down from generation to generation.I discovered my passion for cooking when I was only seven years old. Today I continue with love to prepare and share, with my guests, genuine and typical dishes, using the products of my land, to give quality, genuineness and sustainability in the kitchen.

Traditional cooking class in Maria's trullo

The experience starts with a local market tour in which we will choose some of the best apulian ingredients. The tour is followed by a hands-on cooking class with 3 recipes (starter, pasta and dessert) that will be eaten later together.There will be a starter, typical from my region, pasta with chickpeas and then the sweet tiramisù.

Market tour, cook and dine 

In my farmhouse, which dates back to 1700, there is an ancient wood-burning oven that, due to its large size, was lit for the preparation of dishes for parties or special occasions.Following the recipes handed down from generation to generation, using raw materials of my own production, we will take a trip in search of forgotten flavors.

Special cooking class with a wood-fired oven

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, first course of fresh pasta and dessert) followed by a 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course For us Pugliesi of the sea, you can not start a meal without tasting the seafood, fresh and strictly raw. As an alternative, I propose a delicious cooked seafood salad accompanied by fresh vegetables from my garden. We will prepare with our guests spaghettoni of semolina/gluten-free that we will dress with the typical sauce with mussels and cherry tomatoes. We will close the meal with the typical almond cakes accompanied by a good glass of sweet wine produced by me.

Mare Nostrum the barese style fish

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, first course of fresh pasta and dessert) followed by a 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course. We will start by preparing the appetizer with a selection of the fish of the day, but not before having collected the vegetables in the garden. Then we will prepare this traditional dish, following an ancient family recipe jealously handed down. The cooking will take place in earthenware containers in the ancient stone oven, wood-fired, of the farm. To finish the traditional almond cakes, accompanied by a glass of sweet wine of my own production.

The "Tiedda" alla Barese when rice is combined with mussels

Unique experience to learn typical Italian cuisine. Learn from me how to make fresh handmade pasta. It's a great feeling when starting with simple ingredients like flour and water you can make high quality dishes with unforgettable flavor! We will prepare three different types of pasta together : ravioli, spaghetti alla chitarra and gnocchi. It will be pleasant to cook together and in the company of a nice glass of wine ! At the end of the preparation of pasta ,I will be glad to cook for you and serve you excellent dishes of fresh pasta made with your own hands !