Detailed course itinerary
If you are looking for a true Italian cooking experience focusing on the classic Italian dishes then this pizza making, pasta and gelato making cooking course is for you.
You’ll learn to cook pizza in a conventional oven so you can easily recreate the pizza back home for your friends and family.
Taught by professionals, you'll spend your first day learning how to ‘throw’ pizza bases as well as learning how to make delicious and simple fresh pasta together with a variety of sauces.
The second day is for dedicated ice cream enthusiasts as you’ll spend a couple of hours learning to make traditional Italian gelato as well as ice cream cakes adding your own choice of flavours.
This informal and relaxed Italian cooking school in Sorrento, Italy is the perfect place to hone your Italian cooking skills as you go learn to cook pizza, pasta and gelato for a learning holiday with a difference.
This pizza, pasta and gelato course is exclusive to GoLearnTo.com and proved so popular, it was featured in the Observer newspaper, click on the link to read the full article and find out more.
Suitability
- Suitable for all levels from beginner cooks to advanced chefs
- Minimum age 18 (under 18's accepted accompanied by an adult)
- All classes are taught in both Italian and English
- This course is on request but we can usually accommodate your requirements, to check availability, call us on 08445020445 or email us on hello@golearnto.com with your preferred dates as well as any accommodation needs you have and someone will get back to you very quickly
Pizza, Pasta & Gelato Making Class Start Days and Schedule
- Courses run on selected dates throughout the year
- Your first day lasts between 2-3 hours as you focus on pizza & pasta
- Your second day focuses on gelato and lasts around 2 hours
- Courses start any day of the week from Monday – Friday
- Cooking classes usually start at around 11.30 but occassionally start at 4.30pm, you'll be advised if this is the case before arrival
About Your Pizza, Pasta & Gelato Chefs
- Head chef Biagio worked in a number of different Italian restaurants worldwide and he also ran his own restaurants in Naples and Sorrento before setting up this cooking school in the early 1990's
- This is a truly family business and Biagio's son Agostino also teaches guests how to cook with his own sense of fun and charm as he teaches you how to practically recreate the dishes once you head home
- Depending on the size of the group, you'll be taught by either Biagio or Agostino or if you are lucky, both of them!
- Palmeira may also be on hand to assist in the kitchen and to guide you through each lesson
- Biagio's wife, sonss and daughters also all work and help run the cooking school and accommodation
What Will I Learn?
- You’ll spend your first day learning to make pizza and fresh pasta as well as a variety of toppings and sauces
- Pizza will be made in a conventional oven so that you learn the skills to make pizza back home (note: if you want to learn to make pizza in a wood oven, we recommend our week long pizza making course)
- On your second day you’ll learn all about the ingredients essential for making the perfect gelato, semi freddo and gelato cakes
- Then its onto using the ice cream making machines and learning the techniques needed to create your own unique flavours
Pizza Pasta and Gelato Holidays
This course is also available in a 3 night Pizza Pasta and Gelato package and a 4 night Pizza Pasta and Gelato Holiday
- If you are limited on time then you can add optional accommodation in the 3* Hotel in the Grounds of the Cooking School
- To request a room and to check availability for the cooking course and the accommodation, please email hello@golearnto.com or use our live chat service now as we can check availability for you instantly
Other Italian Cooking Courses
- If this pizza, pasta & gelato making course whets your appetite for learning to cook, longer Italian cooking courses, pizza making weeks using a wood oven and dedicated ice cream making courses for gelato enthusiasts are also on offer, please click on the ‘view other courses at this school’ link or email hello@golearnto.com for more information
Go learn to cook Italian pizza, make fresh pasta and finish off your cooking course with gelato making the authentic way for a learning holiday with a difference.