Cooking
Put on your aprons, get cooking and learn how to make antipasto, pasta, a main course and dessert with Executive Chef Antonio. He, along with his Executive chef team will lead you through an appetizer, pasta, main dish and dessert using fresh local produce. After the meal everyone enjoys the foods prepared in class with an outside lunch on the garden terrace with wine and water (weather permitting). This hands-on cooking class features local southern Italian recipes and a healthy accent on the Mediterranean diet.
In each cooking class you will make regional recipes starting with antipasto: fiori di zucca ripieni – stuffed squash flowers, aranci, patate crochette, involtini di melanzane, polpettini di melanzane, pasta: gnocchi, ravioli Caprese and scialatielli, a main course: spigola limone, pesce all’acqua pazza, vitello Positanese, pollo con erbe, and limone and dessert: torta Caprese, torta Vesuvio, babà soaked in limoncello, gelato and crostate, to name a few.
During the week, you will also learn the technique of making authentic Neapolitan pizza with our award-winning pizzaiolo, pizza-maker, who learned to make la vera pizza Neapolitana, real Neapolitan pizza, in Naples. This authentic pizza making class shares the secret recipe for mixing, kneading and stretching delicate pizza dough and baking it at a high temperature in a wood-burning oven for a perfect crispy crust.
If pasta is your favorite, you can choose to add on our Pasta Making Workshop where you will make additional fresh, hand-made pasta with seasonal sauces. Fresh pasta making is an art in Italy, and in Positano you will learn to make it step-by-step! Believe it or not, Italy boasts over 1,000 different types of pasta, including gnocchi, ravioli, tortellini, cannelloni, orecchiette, casarecci, and garganelli, to name but a few.
If you are an advanced cooker or chef, we can offer the same Cooking and Watercolor Tour with advanced cooking classes and make it a tailor made menu for you. Just let us know.
Watercolor Painting
After your cooking class, join our Maestro, master artist, for a private watercolor class “in open air.” Our Artist, whose watercolors are so soft and yet so striking on the canvas, captures the ever-changing pastels of the Amalfi Coast’s sea and sky. He has an accolade of awards and exhibitions, and he shares these techniques and sentiments with you. Castles, sand, sun, and “la bella luna” are just a few of his subject matters. With the dramatic and inspiring view of the Amalfi Coast as your backdrop, our master artist leads you through the two-hour, hands-on class. He is a graduate of the Galileo Galilei College of Naples.
Credit include:
1980 2nd Prize Winner ~Premio Casciano Naples. Landscapes dedicated to Cezanne.
1983 3rd prize Winner~ CISL & VISL Neapolitan Riviera.
1984 1st Prize Winner ~Tourist Board Of Calabria Competition.
1985 Worked with painters Anthos Faccincani & Vincenzo Stinga Antonio Asturi (Marinetti Futurist Group), Eddy Witstein, cinematographer
1988 Mural Restoration for the Carlmetan Monastery of Santa Maria Del Toro, Sorrento, Naples.
1989 Member of Amalfitan Watercolorists
Program Prices
Program includes a morning cooking class, two hours and a half in the morning, and an afternoon watercolor class in the afternoon.
$395 Painting & hands-on cooking class, full day activity. (Artist’s materials not included and are payable directly to the artists at your painting class).
*Please note: One-day cooking classes do not include transportation, accommodations, or any other excursions. If you would like to add on transfers to and from your hotel or cruise ship port ~ please let us know your group size and we will be happy to reserve transfers for you. (Extra cost).
2023 Dates: This program is available throughout the year. Cooking classes are held every day. Rates are subject to change based on currency exchange. Private classes are available at a surcharge. Call for updated rates. Airfare not included. Group transfers for any cooking tour or tours that include transfers, are for the group and are not private. Transfers before, after or to another destination outside of your cooking tour are not included in the program price. If you would like to add on a private transfer or transfers, let us know and we will send you pricing.
