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Flavors of Tuscany with Angelo Prosperi-Porta

Contact Information

Lucca, Italy
250-642-5727

Culinary Category

Cooking Classes
Cooking Demonstrations
Culinary Vacation
Guided Culinary Tours

Culinary Focus

Italian

May 31 – June 7, 2008 are the dates for our next trip to Tuscany. We will return to Selva, part of a 1,000-acre estate, where we will spend seven nights with daily excursions to markets, restaurants, wineries, etc. Every day will offer something new to spark our creative juices. We will create recipes from local ingredients, cook traditional local dishes and sample some excellent local restaurants and wines.

Highlights include a visit with the shepherd Edo Pardini and his wife Germana, who will show us how she makes fresh pecorino cheese and ricotta from ewe’s milk. We will explore Lucca as well as several small villages in Chianti where we will of course sample some great wines. We will also sample local foods and buy fish from fishermen in the costal town of Viareggio.

Everything for the week, from pickup at Pisa or Florence airport, or Lucca train station, as well as your return, is included in the tour price. Local transportation, accommodations, meals, wine, pre-dinner tastings of local specialties, pizza night using the wood-fired oven, excursions and cooking instruction are all included in this package.

Sample Culinary Experience:

Angelo Prosperi-Porta of Cooper's Cove Guesthouse takes you on a gastronomic tour of Tuscany -

Angelo takes his interactive cooking classes to northern Tuscany where you will enjoy hands-on lessons using the very freshest local ingredients selected each day for his special dishes.
Early one morning you travel to a nearby seaside town to select for the day's menu fish caught just a few hours before.
A day trip to Chianti includes tours of award-winning wineries, a state-of-the-art enoteca, shopping in small villages and dining in a charming hillside restaurant.
Immerse yourself in the jewel city of Lucca, its unique shops, walk along the famous Renaissance walls, enjoy a guided tour of its medieval center and hear a Puccini concert in a Romanesque church.
You will make your own limon-cello and grappa.
You will meet the local shepherdess and watch her make exquisite ricotta and pecorino cheese from that morning's milking.
In caves under the city of Lucca, you will experience a tasting of specially selected Super Tuscan wines.