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Catania Workshops & classes

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Catania: Traditional Home Cooking Experience with Dinner

1. Catania: Traditional Home Cooking Experience with Dinner

Learn to cook like a Sicilian with a local chef in a typical historic villa in the city center of Catania. Get hands-on help preparing your own mouth-watering lunch or dinner. Meet your host who also an art expert who will tell you curious stories about the history of Catania and the beautiful places you can visit in Sicily. Enter the home of your cook and teacher and learn traditional Sicilian recipes. Roll up your sleeves and learn how to use fresh ingredients and local productions from the island. Prepare a typical 3-course meal (starter, main course and dessert), homemade pasta, and a typical Sicilian dessert, Biancomangiare (pudding). Sit down to your meal paired with wine and water in a relaxed setting with your host.

Catania: Private Pasta-Making Class at a Local's Home

2. Catania: Private Pasta-Making Class at a Local's Home

Immerse yourself in a private pasta-making class at the Cesarina's home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and taste the fruits of your labor accompanied by a glass of local wine. During the lesson the Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic regional pasta recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Each participant will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines.

Catania Private Home Cooking Class

3. Catania Private Home Cooking Class

Uncover the secrets of Italian family recipes on your travels, Your guide, or Cesarina will share their wisdom, which has been passed down in their families for generations. Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at your guide's home. Learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of regional cuisine and taste the fruit of your labor accompanied by local wines.  During the lesson, the Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic local recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Participants will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Instead of loading your suitcase with souvenirs, take home Italian cooking skills that'll stay with you for life.

Catania: Market Tour, Cooking Class, and Name Your Recipes

4. Catania: Market Tour, Cooking Class, and Name Your Recipes

Try food shopping at a local market and traditional food shop along with your expert host. See the amazing produce and get inspired about the ingredients you’d love to experiment with. After choosing your ingredients, head back at your host's home in order to create and name two of your very own recipes. Using the 3-5 staple ingredients that captured your imagination, immerse yourself in a private cooking class. With expert guidance, you will learn how to prepare your chosen ingredients and make two of your own Italian creations.   Cultivate your creativity and confidence in the kitchen by adding an Italian flair to your dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines.

Catania Market Tour and Home Cooking Class

5. Catania Market Tour and Home Cooking Class

Uncover the secrets of Italian family recipes on your travels, Your guide, or Cesarina will share their wisdom, which has been passed down in their families for generations. Go food shopping like a local with your host, enjoy the distinctive Italian local market and learn how to recognize the best produces from the land.  Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at your guide's home. Learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of regional cuisine and taste the fruit of your labor accompanied by local wines. During the lesson, the Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic local recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Participants will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Instead of loading your suitcase with souvenirs, take home Italian cooking skills that'll stay with you for life.

Catania: Private SSI Scuba Diving Lesson

6. Catania: Private SSI Scuba Diving Lesson

Try scuba diving SSI is a unique experience with which you can have the adrenaline rush of feeling like a fish among fish. Upon your arrival you will be greeted by friendly and very hospitable staff. You will meet your instructor and guide who will register you for the Try Scuba program in order to activate the recognition which will then be delivered to you. after that you will try on your wet suit and all the equipment to do the experience with. I would learn, through the instructor's very detailed instructions how to move what and what to do step by step. You will learn how to breathe underwater and how to swim with fins in zero gravity. You will see a lot of colorful and peaceful fish and also very curious about you!! Go into the water and there your new underwater adventure will begin. At the exit we will do a debriefing and if you want you can continue with the Open Water Diver course which enables you as an officially certified diver You will be able to make the most of the diving center structure with changing rooms, showers, toilets, bars, relaxation areas and, if you feel like it, even the small restaurant

Catania Market Tour, Home Cooking Demo and Dinner

7. Catania Market Tour, Home Cooking Demo and Dinner

Uncover the secrets of Italian family recipes on your travels, Your guide, or Cesarina will share their wisdom, which has been passed down in their families for generations. Go food shopping like a local with your host, enjoy the distinctive Italian local market and learn how to recognize the best produces from the land.  Come back to your Cesarina’s home, attend a private cooking demo where your host will share the secret of her family cookbook while finishing one of the dishes in front of you. Sit at an authentic Italian table and enjoy a 4-course seasonal menu including starter, pasta, main course with a side dish, and dessert accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. Feel the warmth of Italian hospitality as you connect with local people. 

Etna: Wine Tasting and Cooking Class

8. Etna: Wine Tasting and Cooking Class

On the slopes of Mount Etna volcano, in a landscape combination of lava rock, woods and gorse, are the vineyards of the Estate chosen for you, between the two extinct craters Monte Gorna and Monte Ilice.The vineyards are planted to Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio for the production ofEtna Rosso and to Carricante and Catarratto for the production of EtnaBianco, that is, the main ones of Etna DOC. You will be able to visit the Estate's vineyards and, discover the secrets of the preparation of this wine appreciated on all markets and produced for 10 years now through the method of organic farming. You will be able to taste 4 labels of Etna DOC wines and at the same time enjoy yourself by participating in a cooking class, during which you will be able to prepare a first course and a dessert of the Sicilian culinary tradition. You just have to taste some excellent wine and the traditional Sicilian dishes you have prepared!

Frequently asked questions about Catania

What are the best day trips and excursions from Catania?

The best day trips and excursions from Catania are:

Mount Etna

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What people are saying about Catania

Incredible experience, the warmth and benevolence of the hosts refresh the heart. Very attentive, everything is taken care of down to the smallest detail. Their generosity lives up to the reputation of the Sicilians. Little pinch in the heart when leaving This activity exceeded all our expectations Juliette & Hugo

The home was lovely as were my hosts. Charming and talented people who know good food and how to prepare it. I would definitely go back and have another cooking/eating experience.

The visit with Anne was a great experience. We prepared delicious food, tried e.g. to make pasta. Lots of good talk about Sicily and possible excursions.

Very cozy at home with Italians. Exceeded all expectations!!! Really recommend, 10/10

Great insight in to sicilian cooking with hints, tips and hospitality