COOKING IN ROME TOUR!
An Innovative tour for all Italian cuisine and food lovers.
We will guide you to improve originally your cooking tour expectations in Italy. The first step to realize your dream travel to Italy is contact us to meet your Taste and Slow Italy private Advisor. This is a very easy, smart and positive experience for all our Clients, they confirm. Your travel starts just meeting our Team, telling us your personal tastes and interests. We will guide you to organize your personal travel project with the perspective to cooking in Rome.
This original package gives you a new way to visit Italy, in particular Rome, follow your deep inspired tastes. The beginning values the whole tour: visit to local district’s market to do some shopping together with your chef/teacher. You will follow the tradition, purchasing all you will need for your cooking lesson. A formidable experience in an authentic Rome street market.
People is friendly and warm. Lessons of handmade pasta, pizza (so popular food, but are you sure to know how to cook it and how to select and finf a good extra virgin olive oil..?). Then, how to prepare a menu from the culinary tradition of the south-center of Italy: a pie with the “ziti” pasta and aubergines (Sicily), Saltimbocca alla Romana (Rome), Escarole Salad with pine nuts and raisins (Naples), Torta Caprese (Capri). The tradition of the north-centre of Italy: Risotto with radicchio (Veneto), Frico with montasio cheese (Trentino Alto Adige); anchovy pie with vegetables (Liguria); Tiramisù (Veneto). you will learn how to create an Italian buffet dinner: Catone’s libum, small rings of lemon ricotta baked on laurel leaves (from the ancient Rome); “pappa al pomodoro” (Tuscany); baked “bucatini” pasta (Napoli); chicken with peppers (Rome); salt cod with capers and olives (Calabria); “padellotto” with baked vegetables (Abruzzo); ricotta mousse (Sicily).
But also visit the monumental Baroque Rome, the imperial Rome with a private guide. Guided visit of the Vatican Museums. Guided visit of Villa d’Este.
Please consider that we can adjust and customize the tour plan for groups or individuals following your travel expectations and personal interests.
Read the pdf sample itinerary below.
PLACES AND SITES OF INTEREST
► Rome with pizza welcome dinner
► Cooking lessons with lunch in Rome
► Imperial & Baroque Rome
► Ostia Antica
► Vatican Museum
► Villa d’Este
► Farewell dinner
THE TOUR INCLUDES
✓ 7 night accommodation in Rome in a centrally located Hotel in B&B treatment
✓ 1 pizza welcome dinner
✓ 4 cooking lessons and light lunches as per description
✓ 1 cooking lesson and farewell dinner
✓ Private transfers as per itinerary
✓ Local guide as per description
✓ Ticket entrance fees as per itinerary
UPON REQUEST
x Tour leader
x Medical-luggage insurance
x Optional tours/experiences
ITINERARY
Day 1| ARRIVAL AT ROME FIUMICINO AIRPORT
Meet and greet with your private Tour Leader and driver; transfer and check in at your 4 star Hotel centrally located. Welcome drink at your Hotel. Nice walk in one of the most famous quarters of Rome, Trastevere. Taste a nice welcome pizza in an authentic local pizzeria !!! (always assisted by your Tour Leader).
Brief meeting to present the program of your itinerary.
Overnight stay in Rome.
Day 2 | EXPERIENCE THE FARMERS MARKET, LEARN HOW TO IDENTIFY THE AUTHENTIC RAW MATERIALS AND ORIGIN
Breakfast at your Hotel. Meeting with your private driver and Tour Leader.
Departure towards the local farmers market to do some shopping together with your professional chef/teacher. Probably the authentic Campagna Amica farmers market or Campo de’ Fiori market
You will purchase all you will need for your cooking lesson.
10,00 am your first Italian cooking lesson will start! The class will be kept in your language.
Your Tour Leader will be always there in order to help you during the lesson.
In mid-morning we will stop for a nice coffee-break and some stories about Italian traditions.
First day menu: handmade pasta (tagliatelle, lasagne and ravioli). Preparation, cooking and food presentation.
1,30 pm: Lunch with the prepared recipes.
In the afternoon meeting with your native guide; visit of the monumental Renaissance and Baroque Rome. Discover the centre of the “Eternal City” means getting in deep with Egyptian obelisks, enchanting churches, monumental fountains, and renaissance - baroque mansions. In the footsteps of Michelangelo, Bernini and Borromini you will tour the impressive Spanish Steps, the world-famous Trevi Fountain, the outstanding Piazza Navona and the remarkable Campo de’ Fiori
square. You will explore Rome’s most exclusive designers and jewelers window shops in Via dei Condotti.
7,30 /8,00 pm: Dinner at leisure and overnight stay in Rome.
Day 3 | COOKING LESSON AND SHOPPING IN ROME
Breakfast at your hotel and meeting with your private driver and Tour Leader. Departure towards the district’s market to shop for food products together with your cook/teacher.
10,00 am The second cooking lesson will start! Your Tour Leader will always be there to provide all the assistance. Mid-morning coffee-break an good occasion to learn more as regards Italian traditions.
01,30 pm Lunch with the cooked recipes. Today you will learn everything about pizza; how to prepare and how to cook it with different dressings. How to recognize the raw materials as extra virgin olive oil and ancient cereals and the strong flour for bread and pizza. The leavening methods, conditions and correct timing.
Afternoon at leisure for shopping. The clients will have all the information they will need to move around the centre.
Dinner at leisure and overnight stay.
We suggest to reserve in Trastevere area, some of our excellent restaurants, our staff will be glad to advice…!
Day 4 | THE IMPERIAL ROME FOOD AND TRADITIONS
Breakfast at your hotel and meeting with your private driver and Tour Leader. Departure towards the district’s market to shop for food products together with your cook/teacher.
10,00 am: The third cooking lesson will start! Your Tour Leader will always be there to assist you. Mid-morning coffee-break to learn Italian traditions.
1,30 pm: Lunch with the cooked recipes.
Today you will learn how to prepare a menu from the culinary tradition of the south-center of Italy: a pie with the “ziti” pasta and aubergines (Sicily), Saltimbocca alla Romana (Rome), Escarole Salad with pine nuts and raisins (Naples), Torta Caprese (Capri).
In the afternoon you will visit the imperial Rome with our private guide. At first you will see the Coliseum (Colosseo or Anfiteatro Flavio), the Forum and the churches that made the history of Rome so valuable. Afterwards you will discover that underground lies a rabbit-warren of rooms where the death defying spectacles were prepared. Beneath that, archaeologists have excavated the skulls of tigers, giraffes, bears, and other animals used in the shows. And those churches you’ve visited for their renaissance art most likely harbor pagan secrets below their floors as well.
7,30 / 8,00 pm: Dinner at leisure and overnight stay.
Day 5 | OSTIA ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE
Breakfast at your hotel and meeting with your private driver and Tour Leader.
Departure towards the district’s market to shop for food products together with your professional chef teacher.
10,00 am: The forth cooking lesson will start! Your Tour Leader will always be there to assist you. Mid-morning tea-break to learn Italian traditions.
1,30 pm: Lunch with the cooked recipes.
Today you will learn how to prepare a menu from the tradition of the north-centre of Italy: Risotto
with radicchio (Veneto), Frico with montasio cheese (Trentino Alto Adige); anchovy pie with vegetables (Liguria); Tiramisù (Veneto).
In the afternoon transfer towards Ostia Antica.
Ostia is a prize sight on the seaside; this was the ancient Rome’s main outlet to the sea and its excavated ruins are wonderfully complete, like a smaller version of Pompeii. Guided visit with your private guide.
Transfer back to your Hotel.
Dinner at leisure and overnight stay in Rome.
Day 6 | VATICAN MUSEUMS AND SISTINE CHAPEL
Breakfast at your hotel and meeting with your private driver and Tour Leader.
Guided visit of the Vatican Museums. They contains one of the world’s greatest art collections, amassed by the popes over the centuries. Exhibits range from Egyptian mummies and Etruscan bronzes to Old Masters and modern paintings, but the main draw cards are the spectacular classical statuary and Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
Lunch at leisure and free time.
5,00 pm: Fifth cooking lesson: today you will prepare a wonderful farewell dinner!!!
Today you will learn how to create an Italian buffet dinner: Catone’s libum, small rings of lemon ricotta baked on laurel leaves (from the ancient Rome); “pappa al pomodoro” (Tuscany); baked “bucatini” pasta (Napoli); chicken with peppers (Rome); salt cod with capers and olives (Calabria); “padellotto” with baked vegetables (Abruzzo); ricotta mousse (Sicily).
10,00 pm: A nice goodbye to the school and Rome.
Day 7 | ROMAN VILLAS TOUR IN TIVOLI
Breakfast at your Hotel.
Meeting with your private driver and Tour Leader. Departure for a guided visit of Villa d’Este in Tivoli. Your guide will show you the beautiful frescoes of Villa d’Este and will tell you about Renaissance art. You will have a funny break hearing stories and rumors about Cardinals and Popes.
The terraces on the hill overlooking the Roman countryside will make you love the world-famous Italian gardens of the noble residence. Strolling in the wonderful gardens you can admire the ‘hundred fountains’ and the statues hidden by trees and flowers, hearing the lovely relaxing sound of water.
In the afternoon free time to relax and stroll around the city.
Dinner at leisure and overnight stay.
Day 8 | SEE YOU SOON ITALY!!!
Private transfer to Rome Fiumicino Airport and end of the services.