Ashley and Jason Bartner had always envisioned a combination farmhouse and cooking school, and La Tavola Marche is all that and more. Its home. They wanted to find a place where they could live like Italians and where, for a little while, their visitors get to live like Italians, too.
Is There Really a Culinary Institute of Tuscany?
I’d seen that Olive Garden commercial one too many times… You know, the one where the narrator extols the virtues of “the Culinary Institute of Tuscany” where Olive Garden chefs supposedly go to train and get inspired to bring Tuscan-themed dishes back to the U.S. Forgive me, but I highly doubted such a place existed. I’d never heard of “the …
An American Family in Tuscany
Take one cookbook writer and one artist. Mix well. Add to the Tuscany countryside, and the result? A lovely bed-and-breakfast, and critically acclaimed culinary institute.
How to Enjoy Your Your Italian Cooking Vacation
Dream of Italy brings you inside scoop on getting more hands-on cooking instruction, tasting everything and not gaining weight, and more tips for your trip to a cooking school in Italy.
Finding an Italian Cooking School
This is an excerpt from the July/August 2004 issue of Dream of Italy: So you want to attend a recreational cooking school during your next visit to Italy. Where do you begin? On the Web, of course. Try one of the following sites: Gourmetget.com: Marlene Iaciofano’s Gourmet Getaways site features her own cooking tours as well as detailed information on …
A Lesson at Chocolate School: Chocoholics’ Dream Come True in Perugia, Umbria
It wasn’t easy to get into a class at Perugina’s Scuola del Ciccolato,the leading Italian chocolate maker’s new chocolate school. But to chocoholics who persevere, there’s a sweet lesson waiting.
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