Italian Culinary Institute - Master of Italian Cuisine

Come and enjoy amazing hands on Italian cooking courses taught by professional chefs in the heart of the Mediterranean. You will be awed by your surroundings as you take in the knowledge these amazing chefs will teach you.

The program is all inclusive from the time that you arrive to the time that you depart and of course includes amazing lessons on Italian food taught by renowned master chefs. You will be taught modern and traditional methods of cooking regional cuisine and complete an intensive analysis on the principles of Italian cuisine.

You will further be taught the evolution of Italian cooking to enable you to create your own dishes. You will also learn how to plan and place orders for production, how to organise your work station, how to prepare food and how to plate it, time management, you will develop your palate and examine the production realities of a restaurant.

This course also includes baking and pastry arts and teaches you the fundamentals of baking, food science, aesthetics, sensory perception and other topics of contemporary significance. You will learn the principles and techniques that are used in the preparation of high quality pastries by examining taste, baking and pastry making techniques, ingredients and spices.

There will be emphasis placed on advanced production techniques and how to evaluate quality products. Some topics include basic pastry dishes, pastry creams, basic cakes, chocolate work and chemistry.

Students will also be taught how to pair regional wines with their corresponding cuisines and how to fuse them with other cuisines by some of the top sommeliers in Italy. There are also several planned excursions to important gastronomical centres.