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per gli italiani

from 1 to 5 days courses in Montalcino

I start the first cooking class with a short talk on the origin of the basic ingredients. One of the more interesting things my students will learn is that tomatoes, which have so much influence in our cooking, originated from the "new continent" and were first believed to be a poisonous plant. Tomatoes were first used in Italian cooking at the end of the 1600’s. Another interesting fact is that the chicken and eggplant originally came from Tibet!

In the Italian kitchen, everything starts with an onion. Add it diced to extra virgin olive oil in a saucepan, and this is the beginning of a tomato sauce or any other kind of sauce, a risotto and even a roast.

If you already know the basics we can concentrate on risottos, or on the many, many other ways to make a pasta sauce. If you are really good we can make pasta by hand or invent new fillings for cannelloni or ravioli. We can also make our own cakes. You will also be surprised on the many ways there are to make a good coffee!

My pupils will start chopping, cooking, and tasting right away. They will get the hows and whys from me, as we go along.

The first dinner will be based on different tomato sauces (3 or 4 and one risotto), and the addition of 3 vegetables. This will also constitute the single lesson.

Sauces, risottos, gnocchi, hand made pastas, deserts, home made marmalades.

Study on use of seasonal vegetables like: peppers, eggplant, zucchini, etc.