About this tour
Spend 4.5 hours shopping Naples' working markets with a local home cook, then prepare three classic Neapolitan dishes in their kitchen. You'll start by selecting fresh ingredients at traditional vendors—learning which stall sells the best mozzarella, whose pasta's worth buying—before returning to cook an antipasto, handmade pasta, and dessert from scratch. Your host, vetted through Cesarine's network of experienced home cooks, shares techniques passed down through their family kitchen. Eat what you've made, paired with regional wines and espresso.
Highlights
- Navigate markets with a practising Neapolitan cook
- Roll and shape fresh pasta by hand
- Prepare three dishes: starter, pasta, pudding
- Eat at the host's table with local wines
- Learn ingredient selection from someone who cooks daily
- Hosted by Cesarine's verified home cooks
What to expect
You'll begin in the market itself, moving through stalls with your host who'll point out quality markers you'd otherwise miss—the firmness of tomatoes, the age of cheese, which fishmonger's reliable. Back at their home kitchen, you receive your own station with knives, boards and everything measured out. Your host demonstrates each step, then guides you through it. Expect flour on your sleeves and some pasta shapes that won't be perfect; that's the point. Once cooked, you sit down together to eat, with wine poured and stories told about how these recipes fit into Neapolitan life.
Good to know
Wear clothes you don't mind getting stained. The class is private—just you and the host. Water, wine and espresso included. Service animals welcome. Public transport stops nearby if you prefer not to drive.
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