6 Day Exciting Cooking Holiday in Tuscany, Cortona

Facilities

Il Falconiere wants you to feel relaxed and at home and so the courses are designed around the sort of cooking you would do in your own kitchen to entertain family and friends: the aim is to inspire you and send you home with new and exciting recipes while at the same time giving you time to cook with like-minded people. It doesn’t matter what level you are, just come along and enjoy the experience!

itinerary

Day 1

Upon arrival, you are shown to your rooms and made comfortable. Enjoy welcome cocktail with Silvia Baracchi, your host for the week. The aperitif will be followed by a delicious gourmet dinner in Il Falconiere’s Michelin star restaurant.

Day 2

After breakfast, you will be welcomed in Il Falconiere’s kitchen for your first cooking lesson. Examples are as follows:

• Frances Mayes menu
• Eggplant roll with prosciutto and buffala mozzarella
• Pici with cherry tomatoes and aromatic herbs
• Beef loin with shallot and balsamic vinegar
• Pear cooked in red wine with cheese and sabayon

Your lunch for the day is based on your creations paired with the wines. In the afternoon, depart for a guided sightseeing tour of Cortona for a visit of this charming city, setting of the book and movie “Under the Tuscan Sun.” Your dinner will be served at Bottega Baracchi, Il Falconiere’s Tuscan Bistrò.

Day 3

Today, you will visit a local farm: you can see sheep, chickens, rabbits, geese and many other animals. You will buy the milk you will use for the third lesson focusing on making cheese. Enjoy light lunch and be ready to become an expert cheese maker5! Pici Pasta and recipes with ricotta cheese just made will be the ingredients of the recipes. Enjoy dinner with your creations at the restaurant.

Day 4

In the morning, depart to Montalcino and Montepulciano: you will be captured from the enchanting landscape of Val d’Orcia. You will visit outstanding wineries and will taste the famous Rosso di Montepulciano and his majesty the Brunello. Later, enjoy lunch. In the evening, join a tour of the vineyards and winery of the Baracchi estate including a guided walking through the vineyards and an in-depth explanation of winemaking from the vineyards to the bottles, followed by the sabrage of the Metodo Classico and wine tasting during the dinner at the restaurant.

Day 5

After breakfast, you will go to visit a local vegetable producer, close to the relais: you will buy some seasonal vegetables that will be the genuine ingredients just cut of your last cooking lesson at the Locanda del Molino. Farwell candlelight dinner will be at the Locanda: you will receive your cooking certificates.

Day 6

After breakfast, do for the checking out procedure depending on your departure schedule.

Please note, the program could be modified for unpredictable reasons at the time of writing or under specific guest request.

You will enjoy two excursions as indicated in the program.

This holiday will take place at The Relais Il Falconiere and Spa in Cortona, Italy. The Relais Il Falconiere and Spa is a charming house kept in the heart of the Tuscan countryside, where the hills give way to the enchanting Etruscan hill-town of Cortona. Silvia and Riccardo Baracchi’s love for this land, rich in history and ancient traditions, is the foundation of the best expression of food and wine of Tuscany which inspired and guided this great dream of them, transforming the ancient villa of the 17th century, once home to the famous poet Antonio Guadagnoli, into a jewel of hospitality.

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You will be served daily buffet breakfast and welcome aperitif and dinner (with beverage) at the arrival. Also, lunch or dinner with matched wine selection will be served after your cooking lessons. During your excursions, you will get with lunch break or dinner.

• Wellness and spa
• Wine therapy

• 3 cooking lessons with the chef (2 at Il Falconiere and 1 at Locanda) followed by and lunch or dinner with matched wine selection
• Wine tour and tasting during the 3-course dinner at the restaurant
• 2 excursions as indicated in the program with lunch break or dinner
• Access to Thesan Spa for the route acqua and steam (hydro massage pool, sauna, Turkish bath)
• 10% VAT
• 5 nights’ accommodation
• Daily buffet breakfast
• Welcome aperitif and dinner (with beverage) at the arrival

• City taxes
• Airport transfers

• A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 15 days before arrival.