Take cooking classes in a cooking school tour or a one day cooking class with a family in their home kitchen and learn to cook their everyday and traditional dishes with them in their kitchen.
After your cooking lesson you dine on your creations with the whole family around their dining table and share laughs and good talks. You feel like a new friend in no time!
On some cooking school tours, you cook with the same family for all the lessons in your three to five day tour so you get to know the family well in a short but intensive sample of their every day lives.
On other cooking school vacations, you cook with three or four families on the same tour so you meet a wide variety of families and experience many slices of local life. For example in Tuscany you may cook with a couple with five kids on their farm who raise or grow most of the fruit, vegetables and meat they eat as well as making pecorino cheese or a charming woman and 80 something mum in their 14th century house in San Gimignano.
A cooking class for a day typically lasts for the morning with lunch of your creations or for the afternoon with dinner of all your plates so you have more time to do other non food activities like visiting museums, shopping or simply hanging out.
If you're traveling to many regions in Italy, why not take a cooking class with a family in each region so you experience different cuisines and family cultures?
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