Italian courses and cooking classes

At DA Siena you will study Italian language in the mornings and, twice a week, you will take our hands-on evening cooking classes with our expert Chefs. Experience the beauty of this everlasting course: learn to cook meals that you will actually be able to make for your friends and family for years to come! Our hands-on Italian cooking school begin with the study of ingredients followed by a brief description of the recipes and a detailed step by step process explanation of the four/five course meal you are...

The course caters for all those students who intend attending a training course for chefs or a course of specialisation in Italian Cuisine, and who need adequate language preparation. The course is also recommended for those students who - whatever their job or occupation may be - want to get to know better this fascinating aspect of Italian culture.

Live in a private Italian house and cook typical Tuscan dishes with “La mamma”. In these sessions you’ll not only learn the recipes and tricks of Tuscan home-cooking, but you’ll also communicate in Italian, improving your spoken Italian in an authentic family environment.

The course in home cooking does not have a professional character and is intended to familiarise students with the Italian familiar typically dines. During the course the participants will learn in a practical manner the basic principles of Italian cooking, such as pasta, stews, bread and pizza and the typical dishes of Italian regional cuisine, such as saffron rice from Lombardy and pasta alla Norma from Sicily.

For one week you’ll literally have your hands in pasta alongside a “real master” in this field, grandma Maria that will teach you all her secrets in the Apulia cuisine! Together you’ll prepare traditional Apulian dishes , such as the famous handmade “orecchiette”, “la focaccia”, “panzerotti”, “taralli“, or traditional italian dishes like “ravioli”, “gnocchi”, “polpettone”, and many others, including vegetarian recipes with very organic ingredients grow in the private Granma’s garden. The course “Cooking...

Sicily boasts one of the richest and most succulent gastronomic traditions in Italy. Come and learn how to cook some of the dishes that have made Sicilian cuisine so popular around the world.