Join us on a 7-day Italian cookery tour in Abruzzo, central Italy! You will be part of a small group of people and will be able to develop your culinary and wine skills and discover the region’s off-the-beaten-track secrets.

Every year, during summer time, many families, especially in southern Italy, prepare homemade tomato sauces to use during the whole year. It is a special day in which all the family meets to participate to this important event for Italian culture and cuisine. The highlight of this tour is the chance to join an Italian family to learn how to preserve tomatoes to last all winter by making traditional delicious bottles of passata and pezzetti. You will discover one reason more why Italian cuisine is so healthy.

Day 1: Airport pickup and welcome to Abruzzo!

Day 2: Cooking pasta with Mamma, exploring Vasto’s historic center

Day 3: A fish cookery class on a trabocco, visit C6th Abbey

Day 4: Tomato passata sauce making and free afternoon (B,D)

Day 5: Learning to make sheep’s ricotta cheese at a small local artisan farm with its own creamery and Roccascalegna Medieval Castle

Day 6: Olive oil tasting, wine-tasting, pizza cooking class & tiramisu

Day 7: Goodbye

Highlights:

• Cooking pasta and exploring Vasto’s historic center
• Cooking classes for fish on trabocco
• Tomato passata sauce making and free afternoon
• Ricotta cheese making at a small local artisan farm with its own creamery
• Olive oil & wine tasting, pizza cooking class and tiramisu