{"id":246,"date":"2011-11-05T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T17:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/?p=246"},"modified":"2011-11-05T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T17:46:37","slug":"cooking-tuscan-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/2011\/11\/cooking-tuscan-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Tuscan Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 20<\/p>\n<p>The joy of cooking in each region is both memorable and educational.\u00a0 Meeting new people joined by a common interest of learning about local and fresh ingredients guided by an expert chef is a wonderful way to dig deeper into the culture and traditions.\u00a0 We joined 6 other people for a half day of cooking with chef Maurizio at a villa just 15 minutes from Florence.\u00a0 The class was very &#8220;hand&#8217;s on&#8221; and soon after arriving with a welcome cappucino, we pushed up our sleeves and had the experiences of making pasta, gnocci (complete with pealing and ricing the potatoes, making sauces, involtini and more.\u00a0 You can attend single day, multiple days or week long classes and even stay at the villa.\u00a0 Let me know if you want to learn more!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Florence-Menu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-249\" title=\"Florence Menu\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Florence-Menu-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Florence-Menu-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Florence-Menu.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu for the half day cooking class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dough-for-Ravioli.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250\" title=\"Dough for Ravioli\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dough-for-Ravioli-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dough-for-Ravioli-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Dough-for-Ravioli.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making pasta using &quot;00&quot; flour and eggs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ravioli.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-251\" title=\"ravioli\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ravioli-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ravioli-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ravioli.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolling out the dough for Ravioli - It takes two!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Filling-Ravioli2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"Filling Ravioli\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Filling-Ravioli2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Filling-Ravioli2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Filling-Ravioli2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filling Ravioli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Involtini1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259\" title=\"Involtini\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Involtini1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Involtini1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Involtini1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Involtini - rolls or &quot;little bundles&quot; with veal, proscuitto &amp; cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Our-Chef.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-260\" title=\"Our Chef\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Our-Chef-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Our-Chef-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Our-Chef.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Chef presenting dessert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cooking-class-group.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-261\" title=\"Cooking class group\" src=\"http:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cooking-class-group-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cooking-class-group-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Cooking-class-group.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New culinary friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 20 The joy of cooking in each region is both memorable and educational.\u00a0 Meeting new people joined by a common interest of learning about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designingitaly.com\/italian-travel-specialist\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}