Ciao da Barbara!

Ciao, sono Barbara! Sono nata nel Golfo dei Poeti, da madre sarda e padre genovese, e ho trascorso la mia infanzia con i miei adorati nonni. Mi piace definirmi cittadina del mondo, ma ho un forte legame con la mia terra e le nostre tradizioni, come mio marito Stefano. Insieme vogliamo condividere la nostra passione per la cucina e le nostre radici con altri appassionati e curiosi.Fin da bambina ho sviluppato una forte passione per la cucina, grazie alla mia nonna che mi ha insegnato a sperimentare e ad assaggiare nuovi sapori. Sono sempre stata avventurosa e ho assaggiato tutte le ricette originali dei vari paesi del mondo, ma la cucina ligure resta la mia prediletta.Abbiamo deciso di aprire le porte della nostra casa, situata sui terrazzamenti delle Cinque Terre sopra a Riomaggiore, per condividere la nostra passione per la cucina e la cultura locale. Per noi, la cucina è il modo migliore per raccontare la storia della nostra terra e tramandare la vera tradizione ligure ad altri. Siamo entusiasti di poter condividere questo viaggio culinario con voi!

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4.9

80 recensioni

: Barbara & Stefano welcomed us into their home on a hillside overlooking the water & Riomaggiore. Their knowledge of Italian cooking, passed down from generation to generation were generously shared and welcomed into our hearts and bellies. Paying attention to the subtleties during the hands-on preparation & cooking make a tremendous difference in the authenticity and flavor of each of the dishes. We learned so much and can’t wait to read through our vast notes as we try to replicate the dishes back home. Grazie mille!!
: Barbara and Stefano were amazing hosts with great teaching, fun conversation and a view to die for! We learned so much and can’t wait to make the dishes back home. Thank you! Grazie! We’ll never forget you!
: Barbara was amazing! We had so much fun and learned a lot. The menu was exactly what we hoped for and her step by step instructions were easy to document and follow! We would highly recommend spending time with Barbara. It was a 5 star day!
: The cooking class was awesome with Cesarine Barbara and her faithful sous chef, Stefano. It was overbooked by Viator, the tour company, but they made it work. They were welcoming, the cooking was hands on, and the food was delicious. The location was beautiful as it was held in their home, which was perched on a cliff overlooking Riomaggiore with beautiful views of the village and the ocean. But beware: the walk to get there is not for the faint of heart or those weak in the knees! You literally have to climb up, or down, the mountainside to get there. If you are unsteady on your feet, or uncomfortable with narrow dirt and stone paths, or climbing or descending uneven steps. If you are up for that, I highly recommend it!
: Barbara and her husband had some interesting chemistry, but both lovely and hilarious people. Learning the ingredients to their homemade pasta was both intriguing and very informative. Everything was great other than 2 key elements. The first being that there was not a lot of 'hands-on' aspect to this cooking class. The cutting, prepping, mixing, and kneading were mostly done by the hosts while we stood around and wrote down her steps/ingredients in the provided notepads. We would have loved to be bit more involved with the whole process! Secondly, the photos of this booking make it seem like you are partaking in a cooking class overlooking the water with phenomenal views. This is sadly not the case, as Barbara's house is located on the inner side of the mountain, facing the valley. There's also quite a lot of shrubs and trees around blocking the view which would have been a bigger issue had we not been inside their house the entire time anyway.