We are the leaders in culinary tours, hands-on cooking classes,

food market visits & cultural adventures in Italy.

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We are the leaders in culinary tours, hands-on cooking classes, food market visits & cultural adventures in Italy.

Visit Our Cooking Tours In Italy’s 20 Regions

Amalfi Coast & Campania

Rome & Lazio

Florence & Tuscany

Sicily & Sardinia

Piedmont

Venice & Veneto

Bologna & Emilia-Romagna

Lombardia & The Lakes Region

Liguria & The Cinque Terre

Puglia

Umbria

Le Marche

Calabria

1 Day Cooking & Market Tours

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Spain, Greece and France

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On-Line Cooking Classes

At Cooking Vacations we bring you the best hands-on cooking classes & cultural tours in Italy’s 20 Regions. You will learn to cook traditional Italian recipes with excellent Chefs, local expert cooks, Nonnas, pastry artisans, and bread and pizza makers. Our Italian culinary holidays are original, authentic, and include market, vineyard and cultural landmark tours. Through Tuscany’s vineyards to truffle hunting in Bologna, making pesto in Cinque Terre, gnocchi in Sorrento, limoncello in Positano to rolling cannoli in the shadow of Mount Etna, Sicily, we welcome you to our Italian Kitchen. We are Italian and share our love for cooking in our culinary vacations with you.

“It’s a Dream Place – Stories of Food, Love and The Amalfi Coast”

By Lauren Birmingham

Elizabeth Berg, award-winning New York Times bestselling author says, “This is a dream cookbook. Who in the world wouldn’t want to try ‘Catch of the Day for a Beautiful Woman of the Sea?’ But in addition to being a cookbook, it’s a slice of life from the impossibly beautiful Amalfi Coast: how it looks, how it feels, how the interactions with the people there are so soulful and rewarding. It takes a particular kind of person to attract the kinds of magical stories Lauren Birmingham Piscitelli does. And it takes something more to get chefs to give up their recipes. Call this author not only a charming writer, but a sorceress whose company in these pages we are privileged to keep.” 

Read the pages of “It’s A Dream Place.”



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