5 Cookery Holidays in Italy
If you are planning a cookery holiday in Italy, but have not decided where to go, here is a guide that will help you decide on a destination for your holiday in Italy.
1. Albisano, Lake Garda – You can spend three nights and four days at Albisano as part of a cookery holiday package and learn to cook all kinds of authentic Italian food from pasta to desserts. Learn all you can about the different ingredients that go into Italian food, which ingredients are seasonal and also visit the local winery or cheese maker.
2. Sorrento – Known for having a strong Mediterranean influence, Sorrento’s cuisine makes this region a perfect destination for a cookery holiday if you want to learn how to cook simple and delicious Italian dishes. Home to one of the healthiest regional cuisines in Italy, Sorrento cuisine uses primary ingredients like tomatoes, mozzarella, native spices and beans. In terms of meats used, Sorrento cuisine leans heavily toward seafood as its meat of choice. The region has a host of cookery holidays and cookery courses on offer for interested tourists.
3. Tuscany - Tuscan cuisine is influenced to a large degree by Mediterranean flavours. The four primary ingredients in Tuscan cooking are bread or pastas, extra-virgin olive oil, beef or any kind of meat and vegetables. Incidentally, Tuscany is home to the world famous Chianti wines. For those tourists interested in learning how to cook the Tuscan way, various cooking schools in the area offer cookery holiday packages that will give you value for your money.
4. Naples – Most of what the rest of the world terms as Italian cuisine today is in reality, the Neapolitan version of Italian cuisine. Learning to cook the Neapolitan way will involve many seafood recipes, with everything from fish to clams used as part of Neapolitan cuisine. Naples is also the birthplace of Pizza and Macaroni, making it the ideal place for you to learn how to make these two Italian classics, just like the locals do.
5. Sicily – A veritable melting pot of cultures and cuisines, Sicilian cuisine has been influenced by the Grecians, who introduced wine into their cooking, the Romans, who made the goose meat a favoured delicacy in Sicily and the Byzantines who taught Sicilians how to play around with sweet and sour flavours alike. These are just some of the cultures that have influenced Sicilian cuisine over time, and learning to cook like a Sicilian would involve blending all these elements together perfectly.
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