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Happy Cooking

www.happycooking.it

Trip Planning, Italy, Cooking Classes and Tours

Homefood lessons, food&wine private tours in Umbria, halfway between Rome and Florence.

Location: Umbria, Perugia


 SPECIAL OFFERS!!

Booking within March 2009:

-  for   1   DAY COOKING:   you receive two bottles Umbrian wine.

-  for   3   DAYS COOKING:   you receive a free cooking class, you pay two lessons.

-  for   4   DAYS COOKING:   you receive a free visit of Perugia or a free wine tour, and a free horsebackride.

- for 6 DAYS COOKING: you receive a free cooking class and a free walking tour.

SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR FAMILIES AND GROUPS.


SLOW COOKING AND SLOW TOURING IN UMBRIA

ALL YEAR LONG!

 
What is a slow cooking experience:
you learn how to cook through your senses (watch your creations on the table, touch fresh fruits from the garden, hear the soups grumbling on the stove, smell the good flavours floating in the kitchen and taste genuine food) and how to enjoy with creativity, the use of simple, basic ingredients, herbs, seasonal and local products. You may find out how funny is using your hands cutting and stirring instead of turning on modern devices.


What you can select:
ONE DAY COOKING CLASS
4 hours hands-on cooking class, preparation of a multiple-course meal.
Monograph: pasta – pizza – meals for special events (Christmas, Easter ..) – mediterranean dishes.

Programm one day: arrival at country home at 10:00. Hands-on cooking lesson. Lunch. Departure in the afternoon. On request: transfer from/to train station/Visit of a shepherd, a farmer, oil producer.

LONG WEEKENDS
4 hours hands-on cooking lessons for 3 or 4 days. You may combine the cooking class with one or more tour or walking tour. If you have not an accomodation have a look at our selection! Cooking lessons will be right at your rental.

4 DAYS or 6 DAYS PROGRAMM
4 hours hands-on cooking lessons for 4 days or 6 days. You may combine the cooking class with one or more tour or walking tour. If you have not an accomodation have a look at our selection! Cooking lessons will be right at your rental.


Slow tourism is discover impressive atmospheres, slow-lifestyle, history, traditions. Brieftaking landscapes, hills surrounded by olive groves and vineyards. Food and wine tours: guided visits at cellars, winery, wine properties.
Your private tour is escorted by bilingual licensed tour managers.


Visit our website www.happycooking.it

Cook with Daniela, she speaks fluent English and she organizes hands-on cooking lessons and she is expert in regional cooking and preservation of local traditions, and Michele, a professional cook, with longlasting experience in restaurants. He likes to organize parties and dinners for small groups, traditional and creative buffets, italian umbrian cooking.

Happy Cooking offers a unique hands-on cooking experience through informal workshops based on homefood mission. Cooking lessons and activity holidays, off the beaten track, support the local communities economically, by bringing people visiting rural areas, help the preservation and value of special products, roots and traditions.

 

COOK UMBRIAN, SPEAK ITALIAN

Umbrian women open their kitchens to share their family recipes, cook with you a superb meal and offer Italian language training focusing on culinary terms, restaurant vocabulary and ordering.


OLIVE OIL TOURS IN UMBRIA AND TUSCANY

  • drive into olive oil area, beautiful views of olive groves, vineyards, old hamlets
  • visit of the museum of country and oil tradition
  • visit of "uno dei borghi più belli d'Italia" - one of the most beautiful Italian hamlets
  • samples and brunch in an oil-mill
  • friendly and bilingual tour leader

WINE TASTING TOUR IN UMBRIA AND TUSCANY

  • visit of a small vineyard, and a larger scale one: tour of the winery, winecellars, fermentation rooms
  • brunch and samples
  • friendly and bilingual tour leader

FITNESS, FOOD, FEEL NATURE: 3 days cooking/active holiday:

  • walking tour to a shepherd
  • visit and cheese tasting
  • Chat and cook with a dietist about "The right diet to keep fit"
  • Walking tour to a natural mountain area
  • Cooking class with herbs and spices of Umbrian-Mediterranen tradition
  • Walking tour of "The old aqueduct"
  • Visit the springs that flow to the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia
  • Country brunch at a country house
  • Friendly and bilingual guide

See site for more info www.happycooking.it  or contact us info@happycooking.it

Contact Information

Company: Happy Cooking

Name: Daniela Maria Paci

Street: Prugneto, 6

City: Perugia

State/Province: Perugia

Country: Italy

Zip/Postal Code: 06133

Phone: +39 320 0648008

Website: www.happycooking.it

E-mail: Click here to send an e-mail inquiry


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