Cooking Courses
For those who love tradition and good food, Just in Toscana can organise cooking courses, where you can prepare dishes local to the Mediterranean and Tuscan area. Local chefs and housewives will, with passion and love, show you the ancient cooking traditions and teach you the basics and recipes of the local Maremman cuisine. Alternating between theory and practice, the courses include a tutorial on the different ingredients used and the cooking techniques required. Then our chef will supervise you as you prepare the dishes and indulge in traditional dinner completely cooked by you. All the lessons last between 2 and 3 hours and then you will have all the time you want to enjoy the delicious meals you’ve created.
Courses:
One day: one lesson on Maremman cooking and the basic skills needed to prepare the dishes. Our chef will show you the correct cooking times, use of herbs and spices and preparations and sauteeing methods, as well as show you the old way of preparing meals, such as making pasta from scratch or cooking wild game.
Weekend: Two cooking lessons according to your needs and wheter yoy want to cook lunch or dinner. The first lesson is dedicated to the techniques and basic skills before you move onto the second lesson where we will go into indepth preparation of the local traditional dishes that inspire you the most.
Full Immersion: a week-long course, dedicated to bringing you in contact not only with the local cuisine but also with the territory and farmers who produce the food we cooking with. Each day the course head chef will send you directly to the small shops and farms to collect the ingredients needed for the day’s cooking. Depending on the season, our chef could send you to find mushrooms, lettuce, asparagus, chestnuts etc…that grow wild in the scrubs and fields that surround the Citta del Tufo Cities.
This service is valid all year
