Cooking Class of Local Food in a Tuscan Farm

About this tour

Learn to roll and shape pasta from scratch at a working Tuscan farm in Vinci, where you'll master two classic shapes using time-honoured methods before sitting down to eat what you've made. The 2.5-hour session covers the history behind Italy's pasta traditions, includes tastings of the day's antipasti, and pairs your fresh meal with a quarter-litre of the farm's own organic wine. Dietary requirements and preferences are catered for on request.

Highlights

• Hand-craft two different pasta shapes using traditional technique
• Taste Tuscan antipasti made from farm-grown ingredients
• Sip organic wine produced on the property
• Hear the story of how Italian families have made pasta for generations
• Eat your own creations straightaway with local sauce
• Farm tour and setting among Tuscan countryside

What to expect

You'll arrive at the historic podere and receive a short introduction to how the farm operates. Then into the kitchen: the instructor demonstrates pasta-making fundamentals, then you take over, kneading dough and shaping it by hand into two varieties. Expect flour under your fingernails and a bit of mess—that's the point. Midway through, there's a talk about why pasta-making became central to Italian culture. Once your pasta is ready, you'll prepare a simple sauce. Everything then goes to a communal table where you eat together, sampling the day's antipasti and washing it down with the farm's wine.

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