Cooking School Tours In Italy with Mama Margaret & Friends

In Venice for the last week of August and first week of September 2016, my friend, Sharon stayed for free in a modern, chic one bedroom apartment, that she had all to herself, on a quiet street with a balcony overlooking a canal in the Rialto neighbourhood. She spent the money she saved on accommodation […]

Traveling on your own and taking a custom designed tour on the same Italy holiday gives you two different kinds of experiences. We can help you with both—giving you advice and tips for your independent travel and creating a custom designed cooking, wine and “meet locals” tour. Here’s what a professor and geologist couple said […]

This recipe comes from an Italian recipe site packed with delicious recipes, mangiabenepasta.com/seasonal biscotti.html This section also has recipes for pumpkin biscotti, gingerbread biscotti with spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves and chocolate peppermint biscotti. All would make wonderful gifts or would delight your dinner guests. cranberry & pistachio biscotti dipped in white chocolate. […]

Do you love Barolo and Amarone wines? Would you like to discover the wine regions where they’re made and meet your favourite wine producers in Piedmont’s Barolo wine country and the Veneto’s Amarone wine country? And cook, eat, drink and laugh with a cast of wonderful local people so you experience authentic northern Italian life? […]

As an expert Italy food and wine travel consultant, I first ask you an awful lot of questions so I get truly plugged in to your travel goals and dreams. With my long time food and wine tour colleagues in Italy, I connect you to extraordinary experiences that someone with your interests shouldn’t miss. You […]

Serves 4 risotto with Barolo, courtesy The Guardian newspaper   good chicken stock 2 litres/ 8.375 cups butter 50 g/ 2 oz onion 1 chopped very, very finely superfine carnaroli rice 400 g/ 14 oz Barolo wine 200 ml/ 6.75 oz, plus a little extra for serving (optional) salt and freshly ground black pepper For […]

“The best cooking class was with Lorenzo. He was very, very nice, very patient and caring and went way beyond the call of duty.” “We really enjoyed the visits with the mozzarella cheese people, the lemon/limoncello family and the winery in the hills. Everyone was so simpatico, so hospitable!” “Our guide was wonderful! Our driver […]

Perched high above the town of Amalfi on the mountainside, the village of Pogerola feels like a refreshing, peaceful refuge far from the mass of tourists, traffic jams and souvenir shops in Amalfi’s busy centre. Amalfi residents go there to eat in family run restaurants and immerse themselves in mountain air and calm. Pogerola is […]

Yield: Serves 4 Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins This mixed seafood pasta in a spicy tomato sauce comes from the delicious site, italianfoodforever.com with Italian recipes in 27 categories. You can also search for recipes by ingredient or Italian region. The seafood pasta I ate at La Capannina was much simpler, with […]

We can tweak our existing tour itineraries to suit your dreams or custom design just the right tour for you from scratch. No more compromising by accepting existing itineraries. Perhaps you’ve looked at our Food Lovers’ Adventure in Emilia-Romagna tour itinerary and liked most of it. But you’d love to go cycling and horseback riding […]