Florence cooking class, Pisa cooking class, or Lucca cooking class? Of course!
We come to wherever you’re staying in Tuscany to prepare the tastiest dishes with you.
Or alternatively, you can come to our Dolce Vita Cooking School and bed and breakfast in the Lucca countryside, the:
Furthermore, since fresh pasta is what we love above all else, you can be sure that you’re having fresh handmade pasta before your eyes.
Well, you know that if we talk about pasta, we talk about an amazing sauce to pair with. Tell you the truth this is not difficult, because here in Italy you can find ONLY amazing pasta sauces; or this is what I believe, don’t you?
So for sure, can’t forget a Florence cooking class where my students and gourmet customers learned making the famous Caramelized Tomatoes Sauce. How could I? It was on the rooftops of Florence! 🤪
You can also indulge with Amatriciana, Carbonara, Cacio e Pepe: the traditional Italian Pasta Sauces.
You can have a look at the recipes that I wrote but also call us to come to your home vacation for a cooking class. Why not, a private dinner as well?
Whatever you’re going to do, I’m sure that you’ll obtain delicious dishes…you’re in good hands!
Each year is different
My job as Cooking Classes Coach and Private Chef is a seasonal one: we start in April and finish in November. Each year is different from another and I love that we need to renew our menus.
Last year we had a lot of requests for Pasta and Tuscan Truffle, this Summer everyone ask for Puttanesca (recipe below) that’s absolutely one of my fav pasta sauces.
We made it during our last Florence cooking class, with a family of 8 people. They were very impressed by this tasteful and delicate at the same time, sauce. One of them didn’t like anchovies and didn’t want to taste the Puttanesca sauce.
But he did it and I can’t forget his smile while he told me that the sauce was astonishing, furthermore, he almost didn’t feel the anchovies flavor.
In fact, my friends, this is a characteristic of Puttanesca: all ingredients perfectly mix up together to make an exquisite sauce.
Florence Cooking Class: Puttanesca History
While running a cooking class in Tuscany, we often explain the story (not only the recipe) of a dish. Well, with Puttanesca one always laughs because of the meaning of its name. Puttanesca is the Italian word for something concerning prostitutes. “Puttana” is an Italian bad word to call a prostitute.
The origin of the name has many interpretations. Someone talks about the owner of a house of appointments in the Spanish Quarter in Naples, which usually refreshed his guests with this dish, taking advantage of the speed and ease of preparation.
A different interpretation is given to us by Jeanne Carola Francesconi in her book “La Cucina Napoletana”.
In fact, everyone called this sauce for “macaroni” with the name of “marinara”.
[…] After the Second World War, in Ischia, the painter Eduardo Colucci, I do not know why or why renamed them with the name with which today is generally known.
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Pasta types
This is one of those sauces that you can pair with all kinds of pasta:
short pasta like penne or rigatoni, long pasta like spaghetti, fresh egg pasta as well.
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