What’s Cooking at an Agriturismo: Livin’ La Tavola Marche

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.

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 …