Category: Cooking schools
Florence Cooking Lessons and a Recipe
Florence Cooking Lessons was contributed by reader Art Moldavia from San Diego. If Florence is on your bucket list, you’ll also want to read his earlier trip report: “Authentic Florence – Places to Eat.” In 1979, Sharon Oddson and her artist husband, Giuliano “Il Garga” Gargani, opened the fine Italian restaurant Trattoria Garga on Via […]
Tuscany Cooking School Trip Report
Remember the Tuscany cooking school contest? Last year Authentic Luxury Travel offered subscribers a chance to win a week at Il Campo Cucina, a unique cooking school in tiny Radicondoli. Andrea Cafarelle was the lucky winner. Did she have a good time at the Tuscany cooking school? Read her trip report: In June last year, […]
News about the Delicious La Jolla Foodie Getaway
I think apologies are in order. Last week I launched the “Delicious La Jolla Foodie Getaway” on www.LaJollaTravelInformation.com and invited Authentic Luxury Travel subscribers to enter the contest. However, my mind must not have been fully engaged when I asked that this question be answered in the comment form at the end of the La Jolla […]
Win Delicious La Jolla Foodie Getaway
Enter the contest on our sister site - La Jolla Travel Information - and you could win a wonderful vacation in my home town, La Jolla, California – San Diego’s favorite coastal community. This place is a haven for foodies. The winners of the Delicious La Jolla Foodie Getaway will spend 3 days – or longer – dining in La […]
Tuscany – Look Who’s Cooking at Il Campo Cucina
The Tuscan Cooking School Getaway contest on this site drew 450 entries last summer - and Andrea Cafarelle was the lucky winner. She’s at Il Campo Cucina in Tuscany right now and Marlane Miriello just sent me this great photo of Andrea stirring the sauce. I bet the folks back home in Boston wish they could trade places. Congratulations […]
The Best Food In Paris
Yummy food in Paris: the Mazet sweet shop in the Marais District. This guest post was contributed by Jane Bertch. Soon after I moved to this incredible city in 2005, I noticed that nearly every American I met asked me where to find the best food in Paris – specifically pastries, chocolates, and cheeses. […]
YOGA, Food and Wine in Tuscany
I’ve just heard the details for the Il Campo Cucina Yoga Retreat in Tuscany, September 21-28,2013 and it sounds like the perfect dream week. If you’ve already entered to Win A Food And Wine Adventure in Tuscany, remember that you can use the prize for the yoga+cooking week, as well as others that are on the […]
Win a Food and Wine Adventure in Tuscany
Learn about Tuscany’s farm-to-table cuisine at Il Campo Cucina – a unique cooking school located in a picturesque hill town near Siena. Meet the “teachers” – local women who hold classes in their homes, on their farms, and in other historic buildings. Discover the secret to making perfect lasagna, gnocchi, tiramisu and other traditional Italian […]
Tuscan Cooking School
It was a stroke of good luck that I met Marlane Miriello and heard about her Tuscan cooking school. The Italian-American was visiting with friends in San Diego who thought I might find her story interesting. Of course, I was – not just interested, but really interested. Marlane and I are both of Italian descent, and […]
