Faculty Information:
Accommodation Details: If you plan to spend some time in Italy before or after your time with our company, you will need to book your hotel or pensione in advance. There are many options beyond the large chains and the places recommended by all of the popular tour guide books.

Other Activities:
Tour Details and Highlights:

- We will visit an open air market in Poggibonsi and purchase the best that the market has to offer and use it to create our own Tuscan feast.
- An excursion to a local family-run goat cheese maker who uses only the best and freshest ingredients and an old world authentic philosophy.
- Visit San Gimignano where we'll taste different quality balsamic vinegars at a specialty bottega (shop).
- Lecture with the Hearty Boys about what makes quality olive oil; includes an olive oil tasting
- Learn to make fresh pasta
- Prepare Dan’s favorite recipes from Talk with Your Mouth Full
- Wine tour and tasting at a local Chianti Classico vineyard
- Excursion to medieval Siena
- 1/2 day excursions to intimate Tuscan hill towns
- Nature walk through the vineyards and valley
- Finish the week by creating a catered experience for all participants with the Hearty Boys-Italian style.

Notes: For friends or partners who want to come along, but are not interested in cooking, there will also be a photography workshop offered during this same week. Check the listings for details.

Facility Information:
Instructor's Details:

The Hearty Boys was born in our eight-by-eight-foot Chicago kitchen. We had a vision when we moved to Chicago; we wanted to take all the knowledge we had accumulated and bring an East Coast sensibility to the Windy City. And Chicagoans were ready to listen. They started to look to us for hip, urban parties, and reporters called for tips on their upcoming entertainment articles.

Our success quickly enabled us to move out of the apartment kitchen and open a gourmet shop in the "Boystown" neighborhood on Chicago's north side. We served an ever-changing array of foods—all of which we created on the spot each morning. The Hearty Boys continued to grow happily and steadily…and then we hit the summer of 2005. We sent a tape into Food Network and beat out 10,000 entrants to become The Next Food Network Star; we launched our own show, Party Line with The Hearty Boys and opened our first restaurant, HB. In October of 2007, The Hearty Boys Cookbook Talk with Your Mouth Full gave further opportunities to use our "accidental expertise."

Notes:
Price Includes:

- Shared double room in country villa
- Daily traditional breakfast and dinner, including wine
- Daily activities and excursions with the Hearty Boys
- Excursion to Siena
- ½ day excursion to nearby hill towns
- Pick up from Florence train station at 3:30pm on arrival Saturday
- Transfer to bus/train station in Siena on final day.

Price Excludes:

- Airfare
- Local bus transportation
- Independent meals and sight-seeing.

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