Highlights / General details
Learn how to make two of the most delicious Italian dishes: pizza and ‘gelato’. Meet our chef, learn the techniques and bring home the recipes to impress your family and friends. The tour starts in Florence via Martelli 33red, where after the check-in you’ll reach by our minivan the you’ll reach by our minivan the cooking school.
The chef will start the class by introducing the history of these Italian wonderful creations briefly. After that you will learn how to make the original Italian pizza step by step: you will be taught the tricks for tender flexible yeast dough as well as for a tasteful, yet light, tomato sauce. Our chef will show you the right way to stretch the dough and you will have the chance to do it yourself. You will make your very own pizza: you will stretch it, sauce it and finally bake it. The result will surely be the best pizza you have ever tasted!
After you have become familiar with pizza you will be taught the secrets to make Italian ‘gelato’: you will get to know the basic raw ingredients and how to select the best products. You will learn about the development and application of natural colors, the heating and freezing techniques and how they have different effects on ingredients. You will soon realize how easily you can make these delicious dishes on your own! At the end of the class you will also get a Graduation Certificate! You will then be driven back to the departure place in the center of Florence.
Inclusion
All necessary ingredients; Cooking lesson with a local Chef available in English and Spanish; Dinner with the pizza and gelato you have prepared (wine or soft drink included); Graduation Certificate.
Exclusion
Hotel pick-up and drop-off; Gratuities.
Hours of operation
Available daily at 2:30pm and 5:45pm from March 15 to November 15. Check in closes 15 minutes before departure.
Duration
Approximately 3.5 hours.
Location
Tour departs from My Tour Office - Via de' Martelli, 33, 50122 Firenze.
Participant restrictions
Customers must be able to climb and descend stairs.
Policies
Cancellation: 1 day prior 100% penalty. No show 100% penalty.
Maximum of 12 passengers per tour.
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