One Full Cooking Day In Italy: Cooking Class And Gourmet Tour

If you are spending your holiday in Umbria and Tuscany, but find you don’t have time for a full culinary vacation, we offers you a full "cooking day" including cooking class, lunch and gourmet tour.
By: Raffaella Bucefalo
 
April 15, 2010 - PRLog -- The one full cooking day includes cooking classes in the morning and tours of interesting places with a culinary focus in the afternoon, this is a great way to indulge yourself with good taste, while exploring this great region of Umbria. Reservations are on request for any day, year round, based upon availability, for a minimum of two people.
Our cooking class begin at approximately 10.00 a.m. and are generally about 3/4 hours long and include the preparation of a multi-course meal, which you enjoy with wine at the end of the lesson. The Umbrian cuisine is incredibly rich and varied, famed for its heady olive oil; the wines are among the best produced in Italy. Recipes vary according to the season, utilizing only the freshest ingredients available and providing you with a deeply individual Italian experience. The cooking lessons are great, the food sublime!
You can choose one  of the following tours:
•   Cooking class and Wine tour The wine tour take place from 15.00 to 19.00. It is a wine tour in winery which produces Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCGS. You will have a guided tour of the vineyard, cellars  finishing up with a test of local Umbrian specialties and the wines. You will also visit the medioeval cities of Montefalco and Bevagna.
•   Cooking class, Chocolate and Wine The tour take place from 15.00 to 19.00. At first you will visit the Perugia’s chocolate factory and the Chocolate Museum to learn about chocolate production. Than you will have a wine tour in a Winemakers Company near Perugia. It is a vineyard under family management, which with special care from their very own vines, produces D.O.C. Colli Perugini and IGT dell’Umbria white, red and rosè wines
•   Cooking class and Truffle The truffle tour take place from 15.00 to 19.00. You will visit a farm located in Gubbio. Through the Educational itinerary to the Discovery of the Truffle; you will understand the history and it’s secrets, you will live the emotion of picking it in the woods, we will show you how to preserve the truffle and how to use it in cooking. The tour includes: Demonstration of Truffle hunting with dog, lesson and practical advice on Truffle preservation, truffle and farm products tasting with local wine, visit of the city of Gubbio.
•   Cooking class and Honey The Honey tour take place from 15.00 to 19.00. It is a wine tour in a Beekeeping farm which produces Honey in Northern Umbria. You will have a guided tour of the honey production,  finishing up with a test of local Umbrian specialties and honey. You will also visit the medioeval city of Montone.
•   Cooking class and Umbrian Treasures: You will visit 2 farms in in the green countryside of Umbria, in the hills of the Upper Tiber Valley near the Tuscan border. In the first farm you will understand the production process of the umbrian. You will also see how to milk sheeps! The second farm produces two types of extra virgin olive oil (Tuscan and Umbrian), wine and honey.

Add a dash of Umbrian cooking to your vacation with our one full cooking day program. It will make your vacation unforgettable!

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Let's cook in Umbria offers cooking lessons, winery tours, gourmet tours, excursions to artisan honey and olive oil producers, truffle hunting and cooking vacation programs that include accommodations and excursions to villages in Italy.
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Source:Raffaella Bucefalo
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Tags:Cooking Holidays, Cooking Vacations, Italy, Tours, Wine, Food, Umbria, Tuscany
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Location:Perugia - Umbria - Italy
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