About this tour
Spend four hours in the hillside village of Pradello learning to cook like a Como local. You'll start at a working farm to taste cheese, honey and seasonal produce directly from the makers, then handpick ingredients for your kitchen lesson. Back in a stone cottage, you'll build three dishes from scratch—starting with vegetables on toast, moving through buckwheat pasta, and finishing with the Italian dessert classic. Lunch is what you've made, paired with local wine.
Highlights
- Meet cheese and honey makers at their working farm
- Taste artisanal regional products before you cook
- Hand-roll buckwheat pizzoccheri in a traditional kitchen
- Make tiramisù from scratch with farm eggs and cream
- Eat your three-course meal with local wine and coffee
- Ancient stone cottage setting overlooking the lake valley
What to expect
The morning kicks off at a family farm where producers walk you through their craft—how they age cheese, harvest honey, rear animals. You'll taste generously and chat with people who've worked the same land for years. Then you're driven to a historic stone house in the village where your host, part of Italy's network of home cooks, teaches you to prep each course. This isn't theatre; you're doing real work—chopping, mixing, rolling pasta by hand. Expect flour on your clothes and the smell of garlic and butter filling the kitchen. Lunch follows straight away, eaten at a table with the wines you've chosen.
Good to know
Wear clothes you don't mind staining. The farm sits on hilly terrain—bring comfortable shoes. Italian and English are spoken. Public transport connects to the village if you're not driving. Allow extra time if you're travelling from Como town centre.
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