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half day courses

Mediterranean Fish Lunch: Half-day Cooking Class Puglia, Italy

Med Fish Lunch

Visit a Mediterranean fish market with an expert, learn to cook all fish with only 4 techniques, learn to make fresh pasta from scratch, master 8 local dishes, taste three DOC wines and finally understand amari (taste 4).

An Introduction to Puglia: Half-day Cooking Class

An Introduction to Puglia Class

Spend the day in the kitchen and wine collection with the food, wine and extra virgin olive oil expert (‘The pioneer of teaching food and wine in Puglia’- The New York Times). Learn what to order where and when during your trip. Learn to eat and drink
(and make pasta) as if you were born here.

Friday Night Wine Class

The adjective ‘Pugliese’ is overused, if only because there is little in common between one city and the next in Puglia, especially when you consider that the region runs a third the length of Italy. Here is your chance to cannonball into the region’s wine, extra virgin olive oil, food, culture and history. And not in the classroom, but the dinning room.

Sunday Night Wine Class

Here is your chance to plunge into Southern Italian culture, history and geography, not in the classroom but the dinning room. Get to know this part of the world, each glass and forkful, solid stepping stones that help you cross the river.

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week-long courses

Week-long Classic Cooking Course in Lecce, Italy

Week-long Classic Course in Lecce

Come find out why The New York Times called us ‘The Pioneers of Teaching Food and Wine in Puglia’, and Italy’s largest newspapers called our school, ‘a national treasure’. 5 impassioned, full-immersion days spent in the kitchen, markets, around the table, with cascade of wine and pasta dough under your finger nails.

Annual Tomato Sauce Week Course

This is our classic Lecce course only that one morning we head out to the country side and ban together as a class to make the annual tomato sauce. It’s a timeless process, not really that altered in the last 200 years.

It’s likely that on past trips to Italy you’ve only passively consumed Italian food and culture. Here is your chance to actively contribute to it, to play your part.

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The Celebration Of San Martino

Every culture has the annual fulcrum, when the local people move from working hard in preparation for winter, to when they actually begin to consume what is stored. That’s San Martino in Puglia. And it just might be Puglia’s favourite holiday.

Olive You & Olive You Two: Week-Long Classes About Extra Virgin

Extra virgin olive oil certainly must be the world’s best food. So do consumers know so little about it? Aside from learning how to eat it, cook with it and taste it critically, here is your chance to either come help harvest (Olive You) or help us replant (Olive You Too)

The Jewish Cooking Of Southern Italy

Jews have been in Southern Italy for 1,400 years longer than Yiddish has even been a language. So why is so little known about Southern Italian Jews and their food and wine? And what flavours and stories are still relevant today?

How To Eat And Drink To Be 100

What do the world’s leading longevity experts know about food and wine?
And why does the food and wine of Southern Puglia stand out, even in Italy?

Bici/Cucina/Vino Week-long Cooking Course in Lecce

Bici/Cucina/Vino Week in Lecce

Who know that just after a knife, saucepan or corkscrew, that a bicycle was the best way to get to know the local food and wine?

Our Cookery And Wine Courses

founded in 2003, the awaiting table cookery school in lecce, italy has always been in constant evolution, creating new food and wine courses for our students. and while what we do always comes back to southern italian food and wine, some of our courses add other elements as well.