Join us in Cortona where Chef Netta welcomes you into her home kitchen and shares her Tuscan cooking using farm-to-table local ingredients into delicious Tuscan fare. Her villa property is nestled on a hilltop in Val di Chiana in lush fields of sunflowers and lavender fields, olive groves and vineyards. She shares her healthy vegetarian cooking recipes at home in charming Cortona!
Tie on your aprons for an extraordinary hands-on cooking classes, a Food Lover’s tour with traditional food tastings along the way. Soak up la dolce vita, sweet life, in sunnyl Cortona with our family.
Our chef will show you how to make handmade pasta, prepare seasonal sauces using organic vegetables from the garden and make desserts and crostate, open-faced fruit pies and Tuscan biscotti with Vin Santo. Step into Chef Netta’s kitchen and learn how to prepare Tuscan classics while learning about seasonal cooking and Super Tuscan wines.
Meet your English-speaking guide for a Food Lover’s with tastings along the way and discover Cortona. Visit the Teatro Signorelli, Piazza della Repubblica, the Diocesan Museum home Luca Signorelli’s masterpieces, the Santa Maria Nuova church, designed by Giorgio Vasari, and Santa Maria delle Grazie. Discover Cortona’s best loved food and wine shops with food tastings along the way. Discover artisan bakeries that carry on the time honored tradition of local dolci, like cantucci, ricciarelli and brutti ma buoni, and learn how local nonnas prepare delicious local pici pasta. Learn about the local artisan cheese and salumi and end with a glass of Tuscan wine. Following your Food Lover Tour, meet Chef Netta in the kitchen for your hands-on cooking class.
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Cooking Classes in Tuscany
Chef Netta is passionate about her cooking and shares her family recipes in the kitchen. Tie on your aprons for an extraordinary experience making antipasti, fresh pasta, main courses and dessert accompanied by Tuscan wine.
Chef Netta also grows seasonal fruits and vegetables in her garden and uses farm-to-table ingredients from local purveyors, markets and farmers from the Tuscan hills.
After each cooking class, everyone enjoys lunch or dinner with the food that was prepared in class with local white or red wine.
Chef Netta’s Tuscan Menu
Ribollita – The celebrated ribollita, is a hearty soup of the countryside.
Pappa col Pomodoro – Bread and tomato soup.
Cecina – A savory chick pea pie.
Tortellini di Patate – Traditional fresh pasta stuffed potato.
Schiacciata alla Fiorentina – Tuscan flat bread.
Castagnaccio – sweet chestnut cake.
Traditional Tuscan Cooking Classes – Pizza, Pasta or Vegetarian & Food Lover’s Tour
Program Includes
- Hands-on cooking class preparing a traditional Tuscan full course menu. Lunch or dinner follows and includes the foods that were prepared in cooking class.
- Cooking Vacations’ chef’s aprons and recipe booklet.
Program Prices
Tuscan Cooking Class $295 per person, based on a minimum 2 guests.
Pizza or Pasta Cooking Class $225 per person, based on a minimum of 2 guests.
Food Lovers’ Tour $223 per person, based on a minimum of 2 guests.
For Single Guests: If you are traveling on your own, please call us for the best group price. We are happy to welcome you into an already scheduled group.
Morning Classes start at 10:30am & Afternoon Classes start at 4:00pm.
*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 provide a price and reserve the transfer(s) for you. If you have a non-cooker who would like dine, but not cook, please let us know and we will also send you pricing.
2026 Dates: This program is available throughout the year. You can check in and start your cooking program any day of the week.
