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Bologna: Hands on Home Cooking Class

1. Bologna: Hands on Home Cooking Class

You will be hosted in a cozy apartment in Bologna. Learn to cook like a Bolognese in a typical Bologna home. Get hands-on help preparing your own lunch or dinner from a friendly chef during this activity. This experience consists of preparing some specialties of Bologna culinary tradition. Begin by preparing the dough for your pasta. Learn how to make tagliatelle and tortelloni then fill them with ricotta cheese, Parmigiano Reggiano, garlic, parsley, nutmeg, white pepper, and salt. Then make some delicious ragù for your pasta. After, enjoy your pasta with some delicious wine and a local dessert.  

Bologna: Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class at Local Home

2. Bologna: Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class at Local Home

Learn the secrets of Bologna’s most famous pasta dishes and tiramisu in a local home, and then taste the fruits of your labor for lunch or dinner accompanied by regional wines. During a private cooking lesson from a friendly local host, learn how to prepare 2 distinctive pasta recipes and a tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your expert cesarina host will reveal the tricks of the trade behind these iconic dishes during a fun and informative experience.  Challenge yourself by putting your cooking skills to the test and impress your friends and family once home with a delicious Italian meal.

Bologna: Cooking Class at a Local's Home

3. Bologna: Cooking Class at a Local's Home

Immerse yourself in a cooking class at a local home, learning the secrets of the most famous dishes of regional cuisine and taste the fruit of your labor accompanied by local wines. During the lesson, the cook will reveal the tricks of the trade for three authentic local recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. You will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Instead of loading your suitcase with souvenirs, take home Italian cooking skills that will stay with you for life.

From Bologna: Wine Tasting and Vineyard Tour

4. From Bologna: Wine Tasting and Vineyard Tour

Meet a family of wine producers who have been producing high-quality wines for generations, learn the story of their winery and explore the vineyards along the way on this interactive tour. Enjoy an authentic wine experience in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy and discover where the famous local wines, such as Lambrusco, are produced. At the winery, which is located near Bologna, stroll among the barrels and oak casks and soak up the aromas of the cellars where the wine matures before it's ready to be sold. At the end of your tour, enjoy a tasting of some of the wines produced at the winery, such as acclaimed Controluce Rosso Doc. Experience the wines expertly paired with local food delicacies in a beautiful terrace with a stunning view of the surrounding hills and vineyards.

Bologna: Market and Cooking Class

5. Bologna: Market and Cooking Class

Go food shopping like a local, enjoying the distinctive Italian local market and learn how to recognize the best produces from the land. Then immerse yourself in a cooking class at a local home, learning the secrets of the most famous dishes of regional cuisine and taste the fruit of your labor accompanied by local wines. During the lesson, the cook will reveal the tricks of the trade for three authentic local recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. You will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Instead of loading your suitcase with souvenirs, take home Italian cooking skills that will stay with you for life.

Bologna: Private Pasta-Making Class at a Local's Home

6. Bologna: Private Pasta-Making Class at a Local's Home

Immerse yourself in a private pasta-making class at the Cesarina's home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and taste the fruit of your labor accompanied by a glass of local wine. During the lesson, the Cesarina will reveal to you the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic regional pasta recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Each participant will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines.

Mojo sauce workshop with winery tour

7. Mojo sauce workshop with winery tour

Have a guided tour of our winery to know the history of our wines and then learn how to cook one of the typical Canarian dishes and Canarian Potatoes”. “MojoPicón”is a typical sauce of the Canary Islands and can be red or green; made using coriander, parsley or pumpkin. Our chef will guide you through the steps so you can achieve the best flavour when making one of the seven gastronomic marvels of Spain. Get ready for an amazing Experience!!!

Bologna Market Tour, Home Cooking Demo and Dinner

8. Bologna Market Tour, Home Cooking Demo and Dinner

Uncover the secrets of Italian family recipes on your travels, Your guide, or Cesarina will share their wisdom, which has been passed down in their families for generations. Go food shopping like a local with your host, enjoy the distinctive Italian local market and learn how to recognize the best produces from the land.  Come back to your Cesarina’s home, attend a private cooking demo where your host will share the secret of her family cookbook while finishing one of the dishes in front of you. Sit at an authentic Italian table and enjoy a 4-course seasonal menu including starter, pasta, main course with a side dish, and dessert accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Feel the warmth of Italian hospitality as you connect with local people. 

Bologna: Private Cooking Class with 2-Courses and Drinks

9. Bologna: Private Cooking Class with 2-Courses and Drinks

The art of fresh pasta was born at home, on the kitchen table. Learning how to cook in a local home is a wonderful way to gain insight into Italy's real culture. Learn to make Bologna's trademark fresh egg pasta with a local "sfoglina" and discover the secrets for the perfect dough and rolling tips and tricks. After the class, you will try and taste your cooking creations, of course accompanied by local wines. This experience with an expert fresh pasta-maker gives you the chance to dive deep into the traditions of everyday Italy.

Bologna: Tagliatelle Cooking Class with Wine Tasting

10. Bologna: Tagliatelle Cooking Class with Wine Tasting

You will be welcomed in a comfortable apartment with a glass of local sparkling wine, then Alessia will start revealing the secrets of the Bolognese tradition and you will learn how to prepare homemade tagliatelle and tortellini. Filippo will tell you everything about the local wines and will teach you how to pair them with our local food. During the cooking class you will prepare tagliatelle and tortellini, then you will start the wine tasting class with three local wines. During the wine lab you will learn how to pair wine and food and will experience the different effects that different wines have on food tasting. In the end, you will have to decide the best pairing. A full immersion in the real traditions of Bologna, from food to wines. At the end of the course all the attendees will be awarded a personal diploma certification.

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Overall rating

4.2 / 5

based on 109 reviews

Amazing course, very nice host (her daughter was cute as well) and the pasta turned out really delicious. The four of us did the course together with a group of seven Americans and it was really fun to get to know them and to enjoy our own pasta in the end. We liked it so much that we stayed there for four hours. All in all amazing experience, a lot of fun, met some amazingly nice people and learned a lot from it. It was an evening well spent. Highly recommend it!!!!

Really loved this experience. The market part was great for getting to know food and culture and the cooking was relaxed and delicious! Am ready to try at home! Plus Martina was a great host. Good conversation, knowledgeable and proud. Having the cooking class in her home allowed for informality and was a nice touch!

Great host. Traditional Italian family and enjoyed a lovely dinner enjoying our pasta with other travellers.

It is obvious Gabby loves sharing Italian culture. she is flexible and kind and fun.

An evening to our liking! Warm welcome and a very interesting pasta cooking class.