An exclusive experience: food market, private chef and lunch!

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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
5 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 6 guests
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Language
English
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Immerse in Milan's culinary culture with a seasoned chef. Visit a vibrant market, master Italian dishes, and dine under olive trees. Private, personal, and packed with flavor and fun.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

No people you don't know: just you and your family or friends!. The chef will be completely at your disposal! Any question will find a prompt answer and you will spend a unique experience starting from entering a modern and elegant milanese house, to a lovely milanese terrace (weather permitting...) full of plants as an olive tree, a bitter orange tree.... roses.....Learn how to make authentic Italian food from scratch during this 5-hours culinary experience with a 30 years of experience chef, visit the most important open milanese food market and learn about Italian food culture! Not only cooking but even culture! You will taste prosciutto, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar......Have a nice coffee or cappuccino, or whatever you like and then prepare and cook five courses including homemade pasta, then sit down with your family to dine on the feast you’ve created. As you eat, enjoy a bottle of fine Italian prosecco produced by my family!!!!

Sample Menu

STARTER
Yummie zucchini
Lovely zucchini cooked in oven following a family recipe full of taste
MAIN
Tagliatelle !!!
Typical Italian homemade pasta, made 100% hands on just with eggs and flour, served with a pesto sauce.
MAIN
pesto sauce
The real, traditional, italian pesto made from scratch by yourselves
MAIN
Saltimbocca alla romana
Veal thin slices tossed with Parma prosciutto and sage, then cooked with olive oil and white wine
DESSERT
Ricotta cream for cannolo
A perfect dessert to end your milanese experience

What You Get

5-course meal
Recipe booklet
Bottled water
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Gratuities
Apron available for purchase (approx. 10 euro)

Good To Know

  • For your safety, you are strongly advised to wear comfortable closed-toe shoes (no flip flops or high heels)
  • Vegetarian and gluten free option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements or allergies at time of booking
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Minimum age for kitchen admission is 6 years
  • Cooking requires standing most of the time

What You’ll Experience

This cooking class will be private, only for you and your family or partner! You will first visit an open-air food local market with Chef Ornella, to get some useful tips about local seasonal ingredients and learn about the Italian food culture. Then you will go back to the school to start cooking together, 100% hands on, a full traditional Italian meal (see sample menus hereunder). Gluten free and veg options also available, if known in advance. Then you will enjoy tasting the fruits of your labor with a nice bottle of Prosecco wine coming from my family winery!. At the end you will get your Italian recipes, but if you like, you will have the possibility to contact by mail chef Ornella for any question or help about your cooking in your country when you go back home!

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Milan, Milan Metropolitan City of Milan Lombardy, Italy, IT

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Starting point: via Servio Tullio 4 - 20123 Milano, few minutes from the green Sant'Agostino Green Metro, ring bell M.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 6 days before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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Cooking in Italy - An immersive experience
September 24, 2024
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We visited Italy and wanted authentic cultural immersion activities. We were delighted to spend the afternoon with our chef/host in her home. The cooking experience involved fellowshipping with a...read more

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Fabulous tour
July 24, 2024
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Thank you Ornella for welcoming us into your house and heart. We throughly appreciated the tour and your attention to detail and love of what you do shone through. Thank you once again Mary-Ann & J...read more

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A delicious experience - learning by doing
May 28, 2024
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A must if you are in Milan and want to feel, taste and learn more about the Italian cuisine. Our cooking chef, Ornella, was from the beginning to the ending a really warmly host. She told us all th...read more

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Delicious pasta!
July 12, 2023
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We made pasta! Was a great visit/class! We had just the two of us, it was so cool to actually cook something myself that was so delicious & to know where all the ingredients in the food we made wer...read more

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5-Star Experience!
July 11, 2023
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What an amazing experience this was. Wow. One of the best cooking classes I have been to. My wife and I love to explore local cuisine and make it a tradition that when we go away we always do a coo...read more

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