Packaged adventures:
Cooking Lessons and Courses
Sapori e Saperi offers three types of cooking class. You can join a class with an international chef, a class with language students or have a class in your own apartment or villa. In addition to cooking classes, it’s inspiring to visit the hidden workshops and farms where the produce you use in your lesson is grown and made. Contact Heather Jarman to find out how we can help you create your personal itinerary:
info@sapori-e-saperi.com.
 Join a class: International Academy of Italian Cuisine in Lucca
Hands-on cooking lessons with international chef Gianluca Pardini, who teaches in America and Japan as well as running his own school in his native town of Lucca. He cooked in France and then in his own restaurant near Lucca for ten years before starting his cooking school. His deep knowledge of the local cuisine combined with his lively sense of humour make his lessons both fun and informative. In addition to learning how to cook a dish, you’ll also learn how to display it to maximum effect to wow your friends. Languages: English, French, Japanese, Italian.
February, March, April, September, October, November: every weekday morning
Fee includes cooking lesson, ingredients and wine: €70 euros per person per class
Spring & summer small group classes
May 3–10; June 14–July 12
Fee includes cooking lesson, ingredients and wine: €85 euros per person per class
Groups of 5 or more: we can arrange private classes with Gianluca for your group. Contact us for more information and fees.
Join a class: Centro Koinè
 The philosophy of the language school Centro Koinè is that you can’t learn a language properly without learning the culture, and the essence of Italian culture is food and cooking. By special arrangement Sapori e Saperi clients can join friendly language students of all nationalities in cooking classes at the school in the historic centre of Lucca. No Italian needed. Classes are held on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4.00 pm:
March 18, 20, 25, 27
May 13, 15, 20, 22
June 3, 5, 10, 12
July 15, 17, 22, 24
September 16, 18, 23, 25
Fee includes cooking lesson, ingredients and wine:
€85 euros per person per class
 Lessons at your apartment or villa
Alessandra, Sara and Eva are three young Italian women who are passionate about their local dishes and learned to cook them from their mothers and grandmothers. Their home-cooking approach and tips about substitute ingredients will have you cooking these recipes again and again when you get home. We help you choose your traditional seasonal Lucchese menu. The cooking lesson begins at 4 pm and ends with the delicious dinner you cooked. If you don’t have access to a kitchen where you’re staying, we can rent a kitchen for you at a vineyard where you can also enjoy a wine tasting. Languages: English or Italian.
Fee includes cooking lesson, ingredients, wine and recipes:
€95 euros per person (2 participants)
€70 euros per person (3–8 participants)
(Add €10 euros per person for fish and wild game menus)
Kitchen rental: €120 euros
Wine tasting: €12 euros per person |
