Italian Cooking Classes
Your hands-on culinary experience in Florence
Our Italian Cooking Classes offer a three-week immersive introduction to Italian-Mediterranean cuisine, explored through an ingredient-first and nutritionally conscious approach.
Moving beyond recipes, the course examines how raw materials, seasonality, and territory influence flavor, balance, and everyday wellbeing.
Through hands-on practice, students learn how simple techniques, fermentation, and transformation enhance both taste and nutritional value.
Learning continues beyond the kitchen with visits to local producers, connecting food to landscape, culture, and people. An experiential program for those curious about food as pleasure, knowledge, and daily practice, learned by doing
Enjoy a 10% Early Bird discount – valid until May 20th
The Course
The Italian Cooking Class blends culinary practice, cultural awareness, and sensory education. Students explore the core ingredients of Mediterranean cuisine such as olive oil, grains, vegetables, legumes, cheese, fish, fruit, and herbs, approaching each one as the result of agricultural knowledge, climate, and tradition.
Through daily hands-on sessions, they learn essential cooking techniques such as knife skills, basic preparations, fermentation, roasting, grilling, preserving, and simple cooking methods, gradually building confidence in the kitchen while understanding how technique shapes flavor, texture, and balance
Parallel to practice, students develop ingredient awareness and sensory sensitivity, learning to recognize quality, seasonality, and nutritional properties. Food is explored as culture and storytelling: a way to understand place, memory, and conviviality.
The program we offer isn’t just a food experience, but it extends beyond the kitchen through field trips to local producers, where students encounter the people and environments behind Italian ingredients.
Set within Florence and opening toward the wider Tuscan landscape, the course offers a contemporary yet deeply rooted introduction to Italian food culture, understood as both a daily practice and a shared cultural heritage.
Final Project
This culinary journey concludes with a collective and experiential final moment centered on cooking, sharing, and reflection.
Drawing on the techniques and principles developed throughout the course, students collaboratively prepare a final convivial meal that brings together ingredient knowledge, seasonality, and balanced menu construction.
This concluding experience is more than just a cooking class in italy: it synthesizes practice, cultural understanding, and sensory awareness, emphasizing food as a social and cultural act.
The final outcome reflects the course’s core philosophy: cooking as an expression of care, simplicity, and connection between ingredients, territory, and people.
Application Process
Step 1
Are you inspired and eager to move ahead? First step: book a call with our admission staff. You will receive a Google Meet link.
Step 2
During the meeting your motivation, committment, vision and academic career will be evaluated. If everything is fine, we will get to your second step shortly after.
Step 3
Follow the instructions provided and start turning your craftsmanship Dreams into Reality.
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Come join our Italian Cooking Classes at SCHOLA in Florence, a real summer cooking journey packed with authentic Italy culinary experiences.
Over three weeks you’ll roll up your sleeves and dive into Mediterranean flavors, working with fresh, seasonal ingredients and a simple, feel-good way of cooking. You’ll pick up everyday techniques like perfect knife skills, roasting, grilling, and preserving, tasting how local landscapes and traditions bring every dish to life, while meeting the producers behind the ingredients.
It’s cooking that feels warm and real: delicious food, great stories, shared moments, all learned by actually doing it.
Download our brochure today to explore the curriculum, admissions process, and requirements!
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