Cooking course on Lake Garda? Discover the traditions
What could be more satisfying than a great meal made with fresh ingredients, local products and traditional recipes? Certainly, having prepared it with one's own hands. That is why cooking classes have become so popular in recent times. A cooking class on Lake Garda is an opportunity to discover all the secrets of local gastronomy, taste appetising dishes, and learn how to reproduce them at home.
It will be an experience of participation and conviviality, under the expert guidance of professional chefs who will welcome you into their kitchens.
Lake Garda cooking course: cooking lessons from NowMyPlace
A passion for food and taste, together with the awareness that today's travellers are increasingly looking for novel experiences that allow them to experience the territory as locals, and not just as tourists, is at the basis of the cooking class proposals.
In an area so rich in all aspects, including food and wine, NowMyPlace will introduce you to typical dishes starting with their ingredients. In the cooking classes, you will put 'your hands in the dough': you will slice, mix, cook or bake the dishes that you will then all eat together. The chefs will show you the steps to follow, but will also give you information on how to reproduce the recipes, starting with where to find the ingredients.
Cooking class means sociability and fun: that is why so many groups of friends choose a cooking class to celebrate a hen or stag party on Lake Garda! Some proposals, however, are also open to children from 12 years of age and are therefore ideal to experience with the family during a holiday on Lake Garda.
Cooking class with renowned chef in his vasocotture workshop
Discover the art of Italian cuisine with an exclusive cooking class in the hinterland of Lake Garda, 18 km from Brescia and 10 km from the west coast of the lake. Paolo, a chef renowned throughout the area, will welcome you in his charming ‘bottega dei sapori’, a place reminiscent of a private home of bygone days.
Amidst antique furniture, objects inherited from his grandmother, and historic wooden tables, you will experience a kitchen experience with the chef who will guide you step by step in the preparation of traditional dishes: fresh pasta (tagliatelle, tortellini, or other stuffed pasta), a second course from the Garda tradition, and a dessert, tiramisu.
Cooking class in the attic in the historic centre of Salò
In this cooking class you will experience Italian cuisine in all its sublime combination of aromas, flavours and colours. An energetic cook with a passion for recipes and good wine will welcome you to her home, a charming and cosy attic room in the historic centre of Salò and just a few steps away from Lake Garda, from where you can admire Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II and the roofs of the historic houses in the village.
After a small welcome aperitif, you will be the protagonist of a social cooking session, based on simple recipes, such as homemade pasta and other typical local dishes, chosen to make you appreciate the Bel Paese.
A truly special opportunity to visit Salò, one of the most popular tourist resorts on Lake Garda, halfway between San Felice del Benaco and Gardone Riviera, with a nice walk before the cooking lesson or after it is over.
Cooking lesson in a historic 18th-century villa
Jo, an enthusiastic cook with a passion for recipes and good food, will welcome you to an eighteenth-century villa of great charm: in its finely restored historic kitchens, this private social cooking session will take place (minimum 4 participants), based on simple recipes, such as homemade pasta or other typical local dishes, chosen to make you appreciate the Bel Paese.
You will prepare a different first course and dessert each time: you will be the authors of the menu selected by the chef. You will taste it together with her in a frescoed room of the palace or in a courtyard surrounded by lemon trees, depending on the season: you will thus spend a moment of great conviviality.
Cooking class at the cook's home south of Lake Garda
A cooking class dedicated to those who wish to immerse themselves in the culture and culinary tradition of the Bel Paese, to discover and experience authentic recipes, prepared under the expert guidance of an expert cook, who has always been passionate about cooking and promoter of the gastronomic heritage of Lombardy.
Expert hands will follow you through all the stages, from kneading and working the dough to the different techniques for rolling out the pastry, and the cooking of sauces and fillings. There will be a mouth-watering finale: our cook will reveal the secrets for preparing one of the most popular desserts, tiramisu, or the traditional Mantuan sbrisolona.
At the end of the preparations, put down your apron and sit down at the table: it is time to enjoy the dishes you have cooked, accompanied by good wine and stories from the hostess.
Shopping at the Desenzano market
You will have already realised that our proposals are designed to give you an authentic and complete view of the culinary experience, to make you really feel part of the place you are visiting. So, how would you like to start by shopping in the company of Marina, your gastronomic guide.
Every Thursday and Tuesday morning, Desenzano's weekly market brings the colours and flavours of the countryside to the town overlooking Lake Garda. Choosing this cooking lesson, you will meet Marina to buy everything you need with her, before moving to her home and lacing up your aprons. In the intimacy of a family home, you will discover stories and traditions, while your lunch will soon be on the table, accompanied by excellent local wines.
Cooking lesson for families
Just a few kilometres from Desenzano del Garda and Sirmione, we offer you a family cooking lesson, open to children and teenagers: ravioli, tagliatelle and other types and shapes of pasta, accompanied by their sauce.
After a welcome aperitif, you will move to the kitchen to try your hand at puff pastry, seasonal products and a traditional dessert.
Lunch will be accompanied by the chatter of the hostess who, between one glass and another, will tell you anecdotes and curiosities.
Why choose a cooking class?
With the complicity of the reality shows that are all the rage on TV, cooking has become an activity that many people also seek in their spare time. Yet this is not the basic motivation that drives food tourists to seek out new experiences. To get to know a place, in fact, one must have had the opportunity to appreciate its gastronomy: culinary traditions are part of a heritage inseparable from the geography of countries and cities, as well as from the culture and soul of their inhabitants.
It is clear, therefore, that the desire to experience valuable time and build memories also comes from the opportunity to experience the local cuisine, both as patrons and as protagonists of each recipe. So why not take some products with you at the end of your trip to eat at home? The added value of a cooking class is that you will familiarise yourself with ancient gestures of the Italian and Lake Garda tradition, you will taste delicacies, and you will be able to reproduce them once you return, thanks to the recipes!
Discover the typical dishes of Lake Garda with the NowMyPlace Food Experience
The cooking lessons, however, are not the only proposal of NowMyPlace to bring you closer to the specialities of Lake Garda. Between country farms, hilly areas, vineyards, you will be spoilt for choice: how about, for example, a tasting lunch in an 18th century villa with an organic natural swimming pool? Let yourself be won over by the charm of an excursion with an expert wine guide or an outdoor wine experience in a heated vat in a splendid resort.
Those who are passionate about wines, spirits and liqueurs will find a wide range of tastings to get in touch with the rich local production and discover its history. But it doesn't end there: many tours, such as cycling tours, also end with an aperitif, lunch or dinner at an agritourism, to celebrate the joy of food and being together, against the backdrop of panoramas that leave little room for words. Discover all Lake Garda experiences NowMyPlace!
