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.
If you include the Food Lover’s Tour you’ll discover Cortona with our English-speaking guide who will take you on an enchanting tour of Cortona’s artisan makers and landmarks – 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. Enjoy a day in the Tuscan countryside with our driver for a wine tasting tour. Visit the vineyard, taste the Tuscan wines and enjoy Traditional tastings included.
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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 and Pasta or Vegetarian
Program Includes
- Hands-on cooking class preparing a full Tuscan meal using the freshest farm-raised ingredients from Chef Netta’s garden and local markets and purveyors.
- Lunch or dinner follows and includes the foods that were prepared in cooking class. Wine and beverages not included.
Program Prices
$285 per person, based on a minimum 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.
2025 Dates: This program is available throughout the year. You can check in and start your cooking program any day of the week. Rates are subject to change based on currency exchange. Call for updated rates. Airfare not included.
Food Lover’s Tour & Cooking Class
Meet your English-speaking guide for a Food Lover’s walking tour through the historic center of Cortona. Discover Cortona’s best loved food and wine shops with food tastings along the way. Visit the town’s main piazzas, Piazza delle Repubblica and Piazza Signorelli, follow the ancient Etruscan city walls, and admire the sweeping views down over Lago Trasimeno. Along the tour, you will visit and stop into 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 tour, meet Chef Netta in the kitchen for your hands-on cooking class.
Program Includes:
- Food Lover’s Tour in Cortona with tastings included.
- Hands-on cooking class preparing a full Tuscan meal using the freshest farm-raised ingredients from Chef Netta’s garden and local markets and purveyors.
- Lunch or dinner follows and includes the foods that were prepared in cooking class. Wine and beverages not include
Program Price:
$535 per person, based on 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 and afternoon classes start at 4:00pm.
*Transfer between Cortona and cooking class just outside Cortona not included. We suggest take any one of the local taxies.
* 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 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.
2025 Dates: This program is available throughout the year. You can check in and start your cooking program any day of the week. Rates are subject to change based on currency exchange. Call for updated rates. Airfare not included.
