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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.

italiano /cucina /vino course in lecce

Italiano /Cucina /Vino Course in Lecce

Italian language, cooking and wine in lecce a week dedicated to finally perfecting your italian, plus cooking and drinking some of the best food and wine in italy.

Salsa Course: Annual Tomato Sauce Week Course

Salsa Week in Lecce: Annual Tomato Sauce 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.

Cruise ships are not for everyone.

The Celebration Of San Martino Cooking Course in Puglia, Italy

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 Too Cooking Course about Extra Virgin

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

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?