“Enjoy a great time cooking in Tuscany!”
5 Day Seafood Cooking Holiday in Tuscany, Italy
Località Montoncello, 2/b, 52100 Arezzo AR, Italy
Seafood Cooking Vacations
It is not always said that Tuscany is synonymous with meat (ciccia); myth debunked by the great variety of dishes based on fish, of an ancient tradition. Learn to cook seafood with your chef in Tuscany. You will stay in a comfortable private villa and discover the secrets of Italian and Tuscany cuisine. Learn about wine, appreciate the quality and discover Arezzo, a wonderful corner of Tuscany, between Florence and Siena!
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Fabrizio
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Highlights
- Custom-made, organic menu
- Cooking certificate and recipes book
- 3 hands-on, seafood cooking classes
- Wine tour and historical village excursions plus dinner at local restaurant
- City break excursion plus lunch at local restaurant
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner with drinks
- 5 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
3 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Italian, Spanish
Group size: 2-6 participants
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
12:00
Check-out Time:
10:00
Facilities
- Hot tub / Jacuzzi
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Barbeque facilities
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Meditation garden
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Bicycle rental
- Free bicycle
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Moonlight Homestay
Moonlight Homestay is located on a hill on the outskirts of the Lignano national park, surrounded by prestigious Chianti and olive grove production wineries with typical Tuscan Apennine landscape, just 2,5 km from the centre of the historic city of Arezzo, easily reachable by taxi, bus or bicycle.
It has 1 private apartment with 3 separate double bedrooms with en suite bathroom for maximum privacy. It is also equipped with eat-in kitchen with exit to a panoramic terrace, outdoor garden with tables, deckchairs and gazebo. Fully aircon room with smart TV.
The facilities at guests' disposal include a fenced park of 6 hectares, heated Jacuzzi pool, and relaxation area with loungers, sofa and solar outdoor shower. The villa has a refreshment point with a large professional kitchen, where all courses and catering services will be held.
Program
Day 1: Arrival
- Meeting at the Arezzo train station or at the villa.
- Exclusive dinner prepared by the chef, Fabrizio.
- Meal plan: lunch, dinner.
Day 2: Cooking lesson, free time
- Following breakfast, take your first cookery lesson where you can engage yourself in the art of Tuscan and Italian cuisine.
- Enjoy the results for lunch.
- Free afternoon to relax by the pool with a good glass of wine by the pool or walk in the magnificent scenery around the villa, through vineyards, olive groves and woodland.
- Return to the villa for dinner masterfully prepared by the chef.
- Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 3: Excursion, cooking class
- Following breakfast, take a cultural tour in the historical city, Arezzo.
- Enjoy lunch at a local trattoria with drinks included.
- In the late afternoon you will prepare dinner in your cooking lesson.
- Dinner will be served in the villa restaurant court.
- Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 4: Cooking class , wine tour
- After breakfast, you'll enjoy your final cooking lesson and lunch together.
- In the afternoon you'll have a wine tour in a prestigious winery, famous for its Chianti superior and chardonnay white wine.
- Return to the villa for dinner with a delicious crispy pizza and calzone menu prepared for you by the chef.
- Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 5: A warm arrivederci
- After breakfast and some time to relax you'll be taken back to the Arezzo central train station for your departure.
- Meal plan: breakfast.
The program may change slightly based on seasonality and availability of the cellars. This can be customized and extended according to your requirement and experience. This is not suitable for wheelchairs. (
Included excursions
1 city escape tour
1 hamlet tour
1 private wine testing tour
Instructors
Fabrizio Merli
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Chef Fabrizio grew up in a family with strong Italian culinary traditions, foundations of the traditional Tuscan cuisine, and the Mediterranean diet. After a long experience in the UK as a chef, then he moved to various countries and worked with important chefs, who have taught him new techniques and exotic touches. While favoring the traditional cuisine, using methods of the past and highest quality ingredients, Fabrizio can delight with aromas giving them a contemporary twist.
Location
Your cooking holiday will take place on the outskirts of the historic city of Arezzo city; origins are lost in the very ancient past. As the settlement grew, it eventually became an important Etruscan city and was later part of Rome. Already in the 4th century, Arezzo had become a Bishopric. It was occupied by the Lombards at the end of the 6th century and was strongly conditioned by their influence.
In the Middle Ages, Arezzo was a free and powerful commune, often ruled by its bishops who were counts of the Holy Roman Empire. The city was frequently at war, with Siena certainly, but above all with Florence and, in 1384, it was finally subjugated to Florentine rule. From then onwards, with the exception of two widespread rebellions in 1502 and 1529-30, Arezzo's history runs parallel to the history of Florence and, later on, to the fortunes of Tuscany.
Today, the ancient center of the city retains all the fascination of its illustrious past. The principal buildings and monuments possess a wealth of Medieval and Renaissance art created by artists such as Cimabue, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesa, Andrea della Robbia, and Giorgio Vasari ETC... Arezzo was the birthplace of the great poet Petrarch, the inventor of the Italian language; and it became internationally famous as the backdrop to a widely acclaimed movie when some of the most beautiful corners of the city’s monumental center formed the setting for scenes in Roberto Benigni’s film Life is Beautiful, three-time Oscar winner..
This is Arezzo, the modern, hard-working, artistic city rooted in the past but renewing itself in the architecture of the present and in exhibitions of contemporary art, whose citizens, with their ingenuity and creativity, still find expression in the aromas and tastes of an ancient culinary tradition, in handicrafts of renowned quality, in a genuine sense of hospitality to tourists, and in such jewelry-making expertise that Arezzo is known worldwide as the “city of gold”.
Arezzo is a gem set amidst the gentle Tuscan hills, the birthplace of so many illustrious personages that the distinguished poet Josue Carducci exclaimed that the territory of Arezzo alone is sufficient to give glory to Italy!
Distances
- Perugia airport 80 kilometers – 1,5 hours
- Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR), 80 kilometers - 1.5 hour
- Leonardo da Vinci - Fiumicino Airport (FCO), 250 kilometers - 2-3 hours
- Pisa International Airport (PSA), 150 kilometers - 2 hours
- San Francesco d'Assisi Airport (PEG), 80 kilometers - 1 hour 30 minutes
- Siena downtown, 60 kilometers
- Florence downtown , 60 kilometers
- Cortona, 30 kilometers
Food
Maximum guarantee on the organic products that will be used during your vacation, most of MangiarDivino's production. You will learn to prepare all the essential of an Italian meal with the passion for reviving Tuscany historic recipes while giving them a contemporary twist appetizers, bread, pizza, soups, homemade pasta accompanied by sauces, meats, vegetables, and finish with delicious desserts. You will be using vegetables in season from MangiarDivino's own farm or from local markets. All the others ingredients used will be purchased in the morning before the course, from trusted suppliers, to guarantee top quality and freshness.
During your stay, you will have the chance to taste wines Chianti IGT, Vin Santo dessert wine, and extra virgin olive oil from MangiarDivino's production farm, totally organic, with the quality of the past. All of MangiarDivino's products can be purchased with suitable packaging for transportation. Also available, are confitures and organic products such as truffles, porcini mushroom sauce, and other culinary delights from a local producer, strictly sealed for oversea transport.
Their cooking lessons are relaxed, fun, and hands-on. They take place in the fully-equipped restaurant kitchen of the villa, with everyone working in a group with the chef. As MangiarDivino takes small groups, up to 8 participants, everyone can really get involved. Chef Fabrizi,o with his skills and experience, will bring you all the passion for cooking and Tuscan tradition while creating recipes using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Italian food is simple but tasty, with ingredients that can be found mostly everywhere. Your chef, Fabrizio, will go into some depth regarding the history and science nutrition of each dishes, so even expert guests will come away having learned quite a lot.
Appetizers
- Mixed seafood appetizer
- Curled octopus marinated with tomatoes
- Marinated mussels with tomato, laurel, parsley and chilly
- Hot and cold, fish croutons
- Tidbits of polenta and smoked salmon
- Prawns cocktail
- Prawns and crab terrine served with cream of zucchini and chickpeas kennel
Starters
- Gnocchi di mare
- Potato dumpling with sea food sauce
- Spaghetti alla bottarga
- Bottarga: Tuscan specialties of mullet eggs topped with prawns and zucchini
- Spaghetti with clams
- Ravioli with chickpeas and squids sauce
- Ravioli stuffed with scampi flavored with zucchini cream
- Seafood linguine
- Spaghetto alla chitarra tomato, tuna sauce .
- Rice and cereals
- Spelt grain mixed with fish, crustaceans and chanterelle mushrooms
- Seafood risotto
- Risotto with cuttlefish and peas cream
Soups
- Cooked bread with mussels
- Cacciucco alla livornese
- Fish soup Livorno style
Main course
- All served with season vegetable
- Cuttlefish with peas
- Octopus with potatoes
- Steamed sea bass flavored with wild fennel
- Stuffed squid
- Cod fillet steamed with saffron served with leeks and grilled potatoes
- Baked salmon with pistachio breading
- Baccala
- Cod crusted Tuscany style
- Fish balls
- Swordfish steak flavored with herbs and lemon
- Monkfish rolled with beacon served with Mediterranean herbs sauce
- Fish terrine with cream of zucchini and saffron
Dessert
- Tiramisu
- Panna cotta
- Cantucci e vinsanto
- Grape tart served with pistachio ice cream quenelle
- Zuppa inglese
- Chocolate fondant served with ginger and vanilla cream
- Fruit salad
- Fragolata (subject seasonal availability)
- Chocolate mouse
- Blackberry tarts
- Torta della nonna (vanilla cream)
- Pears and chocolate muffin, served to cardamom and ginger Chantilly cream
- Gatto rolle with archemens liqueur and vanilla custard
- Ice cream "la mattonella" served with toasted pine nut and hot chocolate coulis
- Torta di ricotta al cioccolato
- Profiteroles with ice cream fiordilatte served with citrus cream
- Baked custard with vanilla and lime
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Soda
- Alcoholic beverages
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Organic
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Biking tour
- Cheese tour
- City escape tours
- Golf course
- Horse riding
- Medieval hamlets tour
- Medieval tournaments tour
- Relaxing in garden or swimming
- Trekking and hiking tour
- Vespa tour
What's included
- 2 half-day excursions
- 3 cookery lessons
- 5 nights accommodation
- All meals
- All taxes
- Drinks
- Transfer to from train station
- Welcome Prosecco wine tasting with Tuscan appetizer
What's not included
- Additional tours
- Airfare
- Personal expenses
- Train fare
- Transfer to from airport (extra price available on request)
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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