About this tour
Learn to shape Maremma tortelli in a local cook's home near Orbetello, where you'll master pasta-making techniques handed down through family generations. Over three hours, you'll prepare filled pasta, liver crostini, and biscotti alongside your host, then sit down to eat what you've made with regional wine. This is cooking as locals practise it—no demonstrations, just your hands in the dough.
Highlights
- Shape tortelli by hand using traditional Maremma family methods
- Prepare liver crostini and homemade biscotti from scratch
- Eat your finished pasta with proper sauce, not tourist plating
- Taste regional wine alongside your meal
- Learn recipes you can actually recreate at home
- Cook in a real Italian kitchen, not a studio classroom
What to expect
You'll arrive at your host's home and get straight into making pasta dough—mixing, kneading, rolling. Your host will show you how to fill and fold tortelli properly, correcting your technique as you go. While the pasta rests, you'll prepare crostini and biscuits. Then everything comes together: you cook your tortelli, taste it with wine and a simple aperitivo, and finish with the biscuits you've baked. Expect flour under your fingernails and an honest sense of how much skill goes into getting it right.
Good to know
Wear clothes you don't mind getting messy. The class runs three hours; public transport serves the area well. Bring an appetite—you're eating a proper meal, not tasting portions. No experience needed, though you'll work at a real pace.
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