Italy · Cooking

5-Hour Cooking and Dining Experience in Ticino Natural Park

5 Hours Round trip from Lake Maggiore Easy pace

Enjoy the Italian cooking class and lunch in the woods

The journey

Trip highlights

01 Cook 3 iconic Italian dishes with a personal chef in Ticino Natural Park
02 Shape a flexible menu based on your interests and the group's preferences
03 Dine in the woods with complimentary beer or wine
04 Walk through the charming forest and look for foxes, hares, wild boars, and woodpeckers

Prepare 3 iconic Italian dishes of your choice together with a personal chef in a country kitchen set within Ticino Natural Park. This flexible cooking and dining experience lets you shape the menu with the chef and fellow participants, with possible dishes ranging from pasta and risotto to ossobuco, tiramisù, and panna cotta. Enjoy the beautiful natural environment, complimentary beer or wine, and a walk through the charming woods where you may spot foxes, wild boars, woodpeckers, hares, and other wildlife.

Prepare 3 iconic Italian dishes of your choice together with a personal chef in a country kitchen set within Ticino Natural Park.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 5 Hours

Tour type Shared

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Included

Wheelchair access Not applicable

City Lake Maggiore

Languages English, French, Italian

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

Cook and Dine in an Italian Country Kitchen

After meeting the chef, prepare the iconic Italian dishes. This is not a fixed-menu experience; let the chef know what interests you, match the other participants' needs, and decide which dishes will be prepared. Examples include, but are not limited to, pasta, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, risotto, parmigiana, caponata, ossobuco, involtini, cannoli, tiramisù, panna cotta, and zabaione. Whenever possible, you will use organic, locally sourced ingredients.
As the chef's home is located in Ticino Natural Park, you will enjoy the beautiful natural environment. Have lunch in the woods, literally enjoying your food with complimentary beer or wine.
Outside the chef's property, you will be able to take a walk in the woods and try to spot the different animals that live there: foxes, hares, dormice, wild boars, buzzards, cuckoos, woodpeckers, and more.
In case of adverse weather conditions, lunch will be held in the living room of the chef's home, which has large windows overlooking the woods.

The route