I am in process of trying to plan cooking/vacation for my daughter and myself in Italy. This is our first trip to Italy and I am overwhelmed by all of the information and the beauty! So much so, I'm finding it difficult to make a decision on where to go for this vacation! I think I will save Southern Italy for a second visit so that we can combine it with Greece. I believe we are most interested in the Cinque Terre, Tuscany or Bologna/Parma areas. Does anyone have an opinon on which area might be best for geographical beauty as well as a wonderful school for cooking lessons??
Thank you!!
Mother/Daughter want Cooking/Vacation In Italy
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Or thinking maybe Lucca??
This is a really beautiful part of Italy, right near le Cinque Terre. It has the same colors and beautiful mountains. Don't know if the classes are any good, but they take you to Pama for a cheese tour.
http://www.cucina-italiana.org/corsi.htm
It think the same town -- Portovenere -- has other cooking classes. It also looks like the chef has classes in Lucca, but I don't think Lucca is as pretty as Portovenere. It's not even as pretty as rest of Tuscany.
I found a review of that chef for you:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187898-d1809021-Reviews-Chef_Paolo_Monti_s_Cucina_Italiana_Cooking_School-Lucca_Province_of_Lucca_Tuscany.html
I just remembered there is a cooking school in Tuscany called Divina Cucina that people I know talked about a lot. I think the woman who runs it is American but has been living in Italy for a really long time. I'm not sure where she does her classes. Most of the pretty parts of Tuscany are south of Florence.
Welcome to Fodors starrbright01. You have posted this on Forums Help which is for problems using the website, not for travel discussions. See the "change Forum" pull down menu? Click that and re-post your questions over on the Europe board. You'll get LOTS of response/assistance over there.
(biztravfod is also brand new to Fodors so probably didn't realize this is on the technical help board)
Or if you don't want to re-post, you can click on the yellow triangle - that is a direct link to the Forum editors/monitors and you can ask them to move this thread intactover to Europe.
So sorry janisj! First time on Fodors and guess I got misdirected! I took your helpful advice and changed my forum to Europe! Thank you so much for the insight!
Starr