Many people often ask us what’s kind of job is ours. Since I’m a personal chef someone thinks that I’ve a restaurant in Pisa or Lucca, but it’s not so. I’m a sociologist and I started cooking since I was child, I took the Professional Chef Diploma 4 years ago at the Chef Academy in Florence and I founded the company “Cuoche in Vacanza” (Italian for “Chefs on Holiday”) 8 years ago, together with a friend of mine who left early because of family committments.

1. Well “What’s our job?”

   We are a group of women going throughout Tuscany (central Italy) to run Cooking Classes or to cook Private Dinners (or Lunches) to wherever our customers are on holiday. Ours is an Itinerant Cooking School in Tuscany, we’ve not a fixed location where people have to come, we go directly to their holiday homes.

Cooking Classes in Tuscany:

• • we send to our customers our Menus (all hands-on and a lots suitable for children),
  • we do the shopping,
  • we drive till the holiday homes,
  • we run the cookery courses choosed by our students (about 3 hours) and than
  • they can eat the fruits of their labout comfortably sit at the table.
  • We clean up the kitchen and we come back home.

 Private Dinners in Tuscany:

• we send to our customers our Menus (3 starters, 1 first course, 1 main course and veggie, 1 dessert)
• we do the shopping,
• we drive till the holiday homes,
• we prepare and cook the Menu choosed by our customers (many many dishes are kidsfriendly). Everything is prepared and cooked by scratch, from starters to desserts; can you imagine the flavor of an Italian Pasta dish freshly made? Of an Italian dessert?
• we serve at the table
• we clean up the kitchen and we come back home

2. What you need for a Cooking Course?

Only 3 tools:

• a table where working
• a fridge
• a stove

3. How do I book your Private Cooking Services in Tuscany?

Just send us an email (info@cuocheinvacanza.it) or fill the form clicking here (make sure you have well written your mail address):

• kind of service requested
• possible days for the Private Service
• quantity of people in the party (eventual quantity of children up to 10 years)
• address/coordinates of your holiday home

4. Do you need a deposit?

•  We don’t ask for a deposit, just a confirming mail to book the date for you

5.What kind of ingredients do you use?

• Only seasonal
• Fresh
• Local
• First Quality
• The Oil is only Extra Virgin Olive Oil (first oil pressing) in any kind of cooking, except for frying (Peanuts or Corn Oil)
• We don’t buy our ingredients in bult, we can’t obviously, because we’ve a few and different customers each time. We do the shopping the same day of our commitment (usually in the morning); our suppliers are the local market or the supermarket in our village.

6. Do you welcome dietary restrictions or allergic people?

• We welcome Vegetarians, Vegans, Celiacs, Lactose free… and any other kind of dietary restrictions. We tailor our Cooking Lessons according to the needs and we prepare tailored dishes upon request in our Cooking at Home Lunches or Dinners

7. Children can be involved?

• Our Cooking Classes are almost at all hands-on and suitable for children by 3 years, especially the fresh-pasta ones

8. which is your specialty?

• Fresh Handmade Pasta:  during our Private Dinners Service we prepare it right before your eyes, right over a table in your holiday home, during the Cooking Classes here in Tuscany you’ll make it and learn all the tips and tricks that my Nonna’s first and the Academy Cooking School than, thaught me and the others “Cuoche in Vacanza”.
• Typical Tuscan and Italian Cuisine: each “Cuoca” (Cook) has her specialties depending from her origins or passions. In our group there are cooks experienced in different cuisines: Italian, Tuscan, Sicilian, Japanese,Vegans.

9. About your costs?

• Our costs depend mostly from quantity of people in the party and distance (the more people, the less cost)

10. How many people are involved in working during your private cooking services?

• We’re often 2 people (the Chef and the Assistant), except for Couple Cooking Classes or Dinners (only 2 customers, there’s usually only the chef)

Do you have any other questions?

Are you coming on holiday in Tuscany and you’re interested in our Private Services?

Please fill the contact form clicking here or send us a mail (info@cuocheinvacanza.it), we’ll answer you quickly!

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