Market Tour & Southern Italian Cooking Class near Agropoli

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4 hours 30 minutes
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Number of Guests
1 - 6 guests
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English, Italian
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Join Nicola for a market tour and cooking class in Santa Maria di Castellabate. Discover local flavors and enjoy a hands-on cooking experience in a private, authentic Italian setting.

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

Experience Details

Enjoy a private market tour and authentic cooking class in a local home in Santa Maria di Castellabate with your host Nicola. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. During the market tour, you will explore a vegetable, meat, cheese grocer and purchase a few ingredients for your cooking class. You will walk through the different shops and explore with Nicola some local and regional produce sold by his favored vendors.Your cooking class will take place in a local home where Nicola will teach you to make a traditional Italian meal including homemade pasta. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in his parent's home.


• Market tour and cooking lesson in a local home

• Introduction to Italy's culture and cuisine

• 100% private activity

• Experience Southern-Italian hospitality in a residential Santa Maria di Castellabate neighborhood

• Vegetarian and vegan options available

Sample Menu

MAIN
Cilento pizza
MAIN
Handmade pasta with ragu
MAIN
Eggplant parmigiana or stuffed peppers
DESSERT
Fresh fruit
DESSERT
Limoncello

What You Get

Alcoholic beverages
Local wine
Round-trip transfers are included if you live within 15kms of Santa Maria di Castellabate
Private market tour and cooking class with host Nicola

Good To Know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Your host Nicola will pick you up from your hotel and drive you to a few local shops for your market tour where you will purchase ingredients for your cooking class. Walk through the different shops and explore with your host local and regional produce sold by his favored vendors. Your market tour will last about 30 minutes. Then, join your host Nicola at his parent’s home to learn to cook an authentic Italian meal from recipes that have been passed down through generations of his family. Your hands-on southern Italian cooking class involves learning to make 3 dishes made from scratch from Nicola’s mother Lia and will last about 2 hours. Start by learning to make Cilento pizza or fusilli in the Cilento style accompanied by a meat sauce and a vegetable dish. Nicola will act as your translator as his mother Lia does not speak English. Enjoy learning about the tips and techniques involved in Southern Italian cooking and culture before you sit down at the kitchen dining table to share the meal you helped prepare with host Nicola and his parents.

Meeting & Pickup

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Your host Nicola will meet you at the concierge desk of your hotel listed when making your reservation. If you are staying in the towns of Santa Maria di Castellabate, Agropoli or Acciaroli, your host Nicola will pick you up from the concierge desk of your hotel or B&B and drop you off at the end of your culinary experience. He will drive you to his home located in Santa Maria. If you’re staying more than 15 kms away from Santa Maria, Nicola does not offer pick-up, please meet him at his home.
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Meeting Point

Santa Maria di Castellabate, Castellabate Province of Salerno Campania, Italy, IT, 84048

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Please meet your host Nicola at his home in the neighborhood of Santa Maria di Castellabate. Exact address can be found in your ticket upon booking confirmation.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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It doesn’t get any better then cooking and learning from a Nona
August 04, 2025
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A highlight of our vacation throughout Italy! Truly an authentic cooking experience with a Nona and her family. We were met at the port and brought to the house where Nona Lia, and her grandson wer...read more

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Memorable Experience
August 02, 2025
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Nicola greeted me in the morning and we walked downtown to buy some ingredients. It was fun right from the start! From there, we went to his home where I met the family and dove right into preparin...read more

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Authentic Cilento memories that will last a lifetime!
May 19, 2025
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Nicola, mama, and papa welcomed us into their family with open arms. We learned how to cook authentic Cilento-style pizza, ricotta & spinach ravioli, tagliatelle & Parmesan. We had bread, wine, and...read more

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Truly Incredible Experience
September 25, 2023
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This experience exceeded my expectations! From the initial meeting with Nicola and his mother Lia and hanging out in their lovely home, they made us feel like family. Lia showed us how to make a ...read more

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