Enjoy the sunshine welcome of Italy at a family run Culinary cooking school in Sorrento. Discover the healthy secrets of Italian cuisine with chef Biagio and his use of fresh grown ingredients for creating the simple local Mediterranean dishes.
Chef Biagio has 35 years experience of culinary arts and uses recipes handed down to him from past generations, which he delights in sharing with the people who attend his culinary cooking courses. Biagio shows the easy preparation of such dishes as Spaghetti alle Cozze, Melanzane a barchetta, and pastries such as Mille foglie alle fragoline.
Additionally you will have the opportunity to go on excursions to local cheese and wine makers. Also enjoy liqueur tasting and tours of legendary sites such as Pompei and Capri. Accommodation will be in a tranquil bed and breakfast at the culinary cooking school.
Your Itinerary
Day 1:
You will be met by an English speaking driver at Naples airport and brought to Sorrento, where you will enjoy a typical gelato affogato in the original Neapolitan bar in Sorrento main square. Settle into your comfortable room at Mamě Camilla bed and breakfast farm house. Join the family for welcome drinks on the patio. Then enjoy a traditional Neapolitan dinner.
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Day 2:
Your cooking course will take place in the kitchen of Mamě Camilla where you will become expert at making genuine Neapolitan home made ‘house bread’ with a local pasta dish using seasonal fresh vegetables and fresh fish. You will also make a dessert based on fruit such as a fruit tart, fruit mouse, or rum Baba with seasonal fresh fruit.
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Day 3:
After breakfast your guide will take you to a famous wine cellar to have a tasting of the four best Campania brands wine. The afternoon will be spent at your leisure. In the evening, enjoy a light dinner at the farm house where Mami Camilla prepares fresh ravioli and a local pollo paesano sul girrarosto (chicken roasted on a spit).
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Day 4:
A visit to the oldest Olive oil manufacturers in the Sorrento which is renowned for the best olive oil in the area, since the olives here have been nominated from the EU Agricultural department, of the quality control origin “DOC”.
You will have the chance to taste the different grades of oil and learn to distinguish the main characteristics of first class olive oil. Returning to the culinary cooking school you will learn how to prepare preserved foods and liquors such as vegetables in olive oil and limoncello. This evening you will assist in preparing a quick and easy Neapolitan dinner, you will see how simple the cuisine really is.
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Day 5:
Board the hydrofoil at Marina Piccola to journey to Napoli . A whole day escorted tour. Visiting the National Museum, Maschio Angioino Castle, Monastero di Santa Chiara, and many other attractions in the historical city of Southern Italy, which together with Palermo, was one of the two capitals of the kingdom of Sicily. Return to Sorrento for a taste of the real Neapolitan Pizza at Mamě Camilla.
Day 6:
Visit the ruins of Herculaneum and mount Vesuvius on a half-day escorted tour. Then on your return to Mamě Camilla, a culinary cooking class and dinner.
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Day 7:
Mamě Camilla will present you with a small gift and graduation certificate. You can enjoy a farewell party prior to your private transfer to the Naples airport. Time to say Ciao! To Sorrento.
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Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Six nights accommodation
three hands-on cooking classes
Excursions listed in itinerary
Roundtrip transfers to and from Naples
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