Mama Margaret’s Cooking Tours in Italy
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Mama Margaret & Friends Cooking Adventures in Italy, in business since 1995, takes small groups of food and wine lovers on cooking and wine tours to Piedmont, the Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Sorrento/Amalfi Coast and Sicily.
In private visits you cook, drink, laugh and exchange stories with a cast of local people. You feel part of their lives and leave them feeling you’ve made new friends.
Your knowledgeable, fun loving local guide, soon a friend, looks after everything for you so you think only of enjoying yourselves. He or she introduces you to people everywhere and opens doors of friendship. You feel a local flavour that most tourists never experience.
We’ve found that groups of family or friends on our tours often re-connect with each other more as they share fun, stimulating experiences in a carefree, joy of life Italian atmosphere.
Northern Italy: Piedmont, Italian Riviera, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna
Does surrounding yourself in beautiful nature give you food for your soul? Walking in Piedmont’s series of hills, covered in vineyards, or along the shores of magnificent Lake Garda in the Veneto will awe you. In Cinque Terre, you’ll admire terraces of multi-coloured houses clinging to the hillsides, falling to the azure sea.
Wine lovers! In Piedmont drink some of Italy’s top reds, Barolo and Barbaresco right with the producers. In the Veneto, discover how they make another top Italian red, the rich Amarone, right in the wineries’ cellars.
Is food your reason for living? Emilia-Romagna, Italy’s gastronomic paradise, is home to parmesan cheese, traditional balsamic vinegar and prosciutto. Piedmont is famous for its white truffles, amazing range of appetizers, hazel nuts and desserts with chocolate. The Veneto is famous for its fish, fresh from the Adriatic and its risottos made of top quality rice from its paddies.
Tuscany
Do you love the Renaissance, art, shopping, walking, food and top wines? Tuscany and its capital, Florence are for you.
In Florence, Michelangelo’s David or Botticelli’s Birth of Venus will take your breath away. Stroll through beautiful, illuminated piazzas at night. Shop for leather bags!
In Siena’s medieval heart, marvel at the colourful frescoes in the magnificent striped cathedral. Relax in a bar with a glass of wine in the famous Piazza Il Campo.
Pristine hill towns like Montepulciano show off classic Tuscan views of cypresses, olive groves and vineyards. Drink top wines like Brunello, Vino Nobile or Chianti Classico.
Southern Italy: Campania (Naples, Amalfi Coast) & Sicily
Want to immerse yourself in amazing natural beauty? Discover white towns with brilliantly coloured flowers, clinging to the rugged Amalfi Coast. On the island of Stromboli off Sicily’s coast, marvel at the volcano’s fireworks exploding at night.
Love ancient history? Walk back in time on Pompeii’s stone streets or through a Greek theatre in Taormina in Sicily.
Cuisine is simple and healthy. Fresh mozzarella, pasta, tomatoes, fish, Neapolitan pizza and tempting lemon desserts on the Amalfi Coast
In Sicily: exotic vegetable, pasta or fish dishes with pistachios, pine nuts, raisins, capers, eggplant. Cookies with almonds, orange, lemons.
