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M16695 specializes in putting together high end trips to the Puglia region of Italy. M16695 provides a luxury and authentic travel experience to people on holiday or vacation in Puglia and Southern Italy who are looking for cookery courses or culinary tours or culinary holidays or cooking vacations as well as wine tours or wine holidays in Puglia Italy. We organize cooking classes, wine tasting and Italian language classes in stylish private villas, sailing trips, as well as bike tours in Puglia. We also provide exclusive customized services such as weddings and honeymoons in Italy; cooking classes and wine tours for corporate groups aiming to improve their team work skills.
We rent amazing villas which are privately owned where people can
stay and where the cooking and language classes are given, experiencing the authentic stile mediterraneo. Then we organize tours to the best local markets and to the food, wine, olive oil, arts, fashion local artisans in Puglia.
Our special programs include: the grape harvest during the wine making season; the tomato salsa school in September; the olive harvest and olive oil school in November/December; cooking classes in a sailing boat from April to October. From April till May M16695 organizes many food & wine bicycle tours: we visit vineyards and local artisans by bikes.
Our cooking classes are given by both professional and local chefs, following the authentic and traditional home made Puglia cuisine. People can choose between demonstration or hands-on classes. Classes are very small and intimate and can go from 2 people (for the customized classes) to max 12 people for the pre-arranged programs.
Our company is owned and managed by the two sisters, Cinzia and Marika Rascazzo, while all classes are given by professional cooks, sommeliers, wine makers, artists, carefully chosen to provide an exclusive and authentic Mediterranean experience of Puglia.
Cinzia earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in Boston and worked for several years abroad in Marketing and Finance roles. In 2005 she decided to move back to Lecce, her home town in the South of Italy, where she works as a consultant for a Milanese Private Equity fund investing in Southern Italy. By looking at small family businesses in niche sectors (wine and food, jewelry, hotels with golf and spas, fashion), Cinzia gained exposure to the best artisan companies in her Puglia region. Given her extensive experience in the US, UK and other foreign countries Cinzia speaks fluent English and French, as well as Italian. She has a 10-year degree in Classical Piano from The Conservatory of Music.
Marika is a Clinical Cardiologist at the Lecce main hospital.
She is a member of the Slow Food Organization, an excellent cook and an expert photographer (all the pictures in this website are hers). She loves traveling and cycling and she speaks fluent English, as well as Italian. |
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