Florence: Private Cooking Class in Tuscany with Local Market Tour

About this tour

Start your morning at Florence's San Lorenzo market, browsing alongside locals to select ingredients from farmers, cheesemakers and butchers. Then head to a private Tuscan farmhouse where you'll cook a four-course meal from scratch under a chef's guidance. You'll master beef ragù, fresh egg pasta, bruschetta, roast pork with potatoes and tiramisu, finishing with Chianti wine. Six hours total, recipes and a cooking diploma included.

Highlights

• Browse San Lorenzo market with Tuscan vendors and locals
• Select fresh ingredients directly from farmers and producers
• Cook four traditional courses in a farmhouse kitchen
• Learn pasta-making with farm eggs from scratch
• Eat your prepared meal with Chianti wine included
• Receive recipes and Italian cooking diploma to take home

What to expect

After picking through San Lorenzo's stalls—chatting with bakers, butchers and cheese sellers about their wares—you'll travel to a working farmhouse kitchen in the countryside. Here the hands-on cooking begins. The chef walks you through each dish but you do the work: building the ragù, kneading and rolling pasta, assembling bruschetta, roasting meat and layering tiramisu. It's practical, not passive. You'll spend the afternoon cooking, then sit down to eat what you've made together, paired with local wine.

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