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La Vita Al Castello

There are thoughts that are hard to prove wrong: one that we wrestle with as a cooking school in Italy is that castles are these isolated stone buildings, up on a hill, off in the distance. Most of the time they are the epicentres of cities, or said another, cities grew up around them. The castle where we have been holding classes since 2007 is no different.Yes, there are underground tunnels to nearby chapels (in the event of a siege, the family would have been lead underground to the chapel, where they would be dressed as friars and led to awaiting boats). And yes there are outward tapering arrow slots for archers but a lot of castle life was working with and alongside local townspeople (step outside of the castle’s main kitchen and you’re in the village’s main piazza, etc).Inside of the walls there are hundreds of fruit trees, underground olive mills, a swimming pool and lots of hidden little corners to take a book for a few hours. Most of the time though, the castle allows us to have large and gregarious groups of people food and wine classes, the clicking glasses running down long tables, the pasta arriving on platters, best lifted with the knees.

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La Vita Leccese

Lecce is one of the prettiest cities in Europe, even if the majority of international travellers have never even heard of it, let alone visited. It’s the cultural capitol of the Salento, the ‘heel’ of the Italian boot.Lecce is home to a significant university, respected nationally and internationally for the study of languages and for the research and development of nanotechnology.The city is always famous inside of Italy as a film town, with many spots, television serials and feature films make the city as one of its characters.