Italian courses and cooking classes in Tuscany

At DA Siena you will study Italian language in the mornings and, twice a week, you will take our hands-on evening cooking classes with our expert Chefs. Experience the beauty of this everlasting course: learn to cook meals that you will actually be able to make for your friends and family for years to come! Our hands-on Italian cooking school begin with the study of ingredients followed by a brief description of the recipes and a detailed step by step process explanation of the four/five course meal you are...

Live in a private Italian house and cook typical Tuscan dishes with “La mamma”. In these sessions you’ll not only learn the recipes and tricks of Tuscan home-cooking, but you’ll also communicate in Italian, improving your spoken Italian in an authentic family environment.

The course in home cooking does not have a professional character and is intended to familiarise students with the Italian familiar typically dines. During the course the participants will learn in a practical manner the basic principles of Italian cooking, such as pasta, stews, bread and pizza and the typical dishes of Italian regional cuisine, such as saffron rice from Lombardy and pasta alla Norma from Sicily.