The Awaiting Table - Half-day Fish Market and Rosè Cooking Classes in Italy

This cooking class will demystify Mediterranean fish in a single morning by teaching you enough about fish to make you confident in cooking it for the rest of life for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

You will master pasta making, learn how to properly season your local vegetables and end everything on a sweet note. This cooking class will also help you understand the relationship between wine and the land, history and architecture and help you fall in love with the area.

You will meet trusted fishmongers, see fantastic art and discuss all the secrets of cooking everything on offer from round fish to flat fish and even cephalopods and shellfish. You will also discuss how the Mediterranean tides affect fish prices and how similar fish from the ocean, lake and river actually are.

You will also discuss the different vegetables of the region before heading back to the school to start cooking. You will be making pasta from scratch and learn why it is Italys healthiest and how the source of the flour drives local pasta shapes, texture and colour to make it the healthiest.

The next step in this cooking class is to prepare the fish and vegetables to create a local menu consisting of an antipasto, primo, secondo, 4 vegetable sides and a dolce. Afterwards you will discuss the local wine understand the role grape skins play and the effect that they have on wine.

This cooking class can easily rank as one of the best cooking classes in Italy because of all the information that you receive not just about the dishes but also the ingredients and what makes them so special.