Cooking & Gastronomy

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From the Handsome blog

• Piadina and Romagna cooking class: where to learn it on the Riviera

  Rolling fresh pasta, stretching the piadina, sealing cappelletti by hand: here's where to take a real Romagna cooking class during your seaside holiday.

• Neapolitan Pizza Classes in Naples: Pro School or Short Hands-On Experience?

  You search “pizza class Naples” and land on diploma schools with internships. You wanted an afternoon in the dough: two different roads, and this guide tells them apart.

• Tortellini Class in Bologna: Learn Hand-Rolled Pasta with the Sfogline

  You want to make them with your own hands, not hear their history. How to tell whether a workshop is a real class or a demo, the three things that will trip you up at the board, what to bring and what a few hours cannot cover.

• Learning carbonara in Rome: how to spot a real cooking class

  Everyone in Rome sells you a carbonara made with your own hands. Here are the concrete signs that tell a working cook's kitchen from a tourist shift.

• Sfoglina Class in Bologna: What You Actually Learn in a Few Hours

  Dough, rolling pin, cutting and folding: what happens in a fresh pasta workshop in Bologna, why the sfoglia is rolled by hand, and what the tagliatella, tortellino and ragu recipes filed at the Chamber of Commerce actually say.

• Fresh pasta class in Turin: agnolotti del plin, explained before you book

  The plin is a pinch, and it is the gesture that decides whether the agnolotto holds in the water. How it is made, why the filling starts as a leftover, and how to tell whether a class in Turin is really hands-on or a demonstration.

• For Makers

  Cooking and pastry workshops: structuring an experience that sells

  With food the workshop sells itself: you cook, you laugh, you eat. But between chaos and a captivating experience there's a precise structure. Here's how to build it.

• For Makers

  Allergies and intolerances in workshops: how to handle them (cooking, cosmetics, materials)

  A beautiful workshop can become a serious problem if you ignore an allergy. Asking in advance isn't bureaucracy: it's care, safety and protection for you. Here's how to handle it well.