Organic Tuscany Cooking School

Certaldo, Italy
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School Introduction

Organic Tuscany is an Italian Cooking School that offers week-long organic cooking courses. The program Includes visits to local organic farms, cooking classes using organic ingredients, olive oil and wine tastings and tours of Siena, Florence and San Gimignano. The courses are “from farm to table”: taking you to see where the fresh, local organic food we buy is grown and using it to cook traditional Tuscan and Italian recipes. Classes are taught in English, but you will acquire a smattering of culinary Italian. Local chefs will guide you through the preparation of simple but delicious dishes (from Tuscany and from other Italian regions) and reveal some of their culinary secrets. Groups are small (maximum 8 people), so that everyone gets a chance to try their hand at every technique, from making fresh egg pasta dough to lovingly stirring an artichoke risotto to perfection. Three of the cooking courses are vegetarian.

Background Data

• Total Enrollment: 6-8
• Acceptance Rate: 70%
• Degrees/Certificates: Organic Tuscany

Schedule & Fees

The 2008 cooking course price of €1200 is per person

2008 Cooking courses calendar
April 5th - 11th,
April 26th-May 2nd
May 3rd - 9th
May 10th-16th
May 17th-23rd
May 24th - 30th
May 31st - June 6th
June 7th-13th
June 14th - 20th
June 21st - 27th
Aug 23rd - 29th
Aug 30th - Sept 5th
Sept 6th - 12th
Sept 20th - 26th
Sept 27th - Oct 3rd

Facilities

Large kitchen in a Tuscan farmhouse.

Faculty

Shilpa:
All her spare time when she was in her teens was spent working and learning to cook at Casa Nostra, a family-run gourmet Italian restaurant in Oxfordshire. After obtaining a degree in French and Italian language, literature and culture from the University of Cambridge, and living in Italy, in both Florence and Rome, she moved to Barcelona, Spain, where she worked as a chef at Sesamo, an Italian-owned vegetarian organic restaurant, and then set up her own successful restaurant, Mosquito.
When their daughter Luisa arrived, she and Riccardo moved back to Italy to start Organic Tuscany. She is a member of the Slow Food association.

Special Courses & Features

• Desserts
• Patisserie
• Salads
• Vegetarian
• Wine & Spirits

Contact Info

Organic Tuscany Cooking School
Località Pino
Certaldo, 50052


Tel US 347 417 5907
Fax

http://www.organictuscany.org