Shilpa
Shilpa will infuse you with her love of great ingredients and tasty,
simple dishes, and will open the doors to the beautiful organic farms
in the area.
All her spare time when she was in her teens was spent working
and learning to cook at Casa Nostra, a family-run gourmet Italian
restaurant in Oxfordshire. After obtaining a degree
in French and Italian language, literature and culture from the University
of Cambridge, and living in Italy, in both Florence and Rome, she moved
to Barcelona, Spain, where she worked as a chef at Sesamo, an Italian-owned
vegetarian organic restaurant, and then set up her own successful
restaurant, Mosquito.
When their daughter Luisa arrived, she
and Riccardo moved back to Italy to start Organic
Tuscany. She is a member of the Slow
Food association.
Chiara
Your guide to Siena
Chiara
is native Sienese and has a degree in foreign languages and literature.
She loves to talk, and to infect the people listening to her with
her enthusiasm for her city. She loves to make them laugh, make them
curious about the things they see with her and to hear that irrepressible "ooooh" when
they see Piazza del Campo for the first time.
She says "I love my city and I love people. What better job than to
be a guide?!"
Tina
Cooking instructor
Tina has been teaching Italian Cinema for over 17 years in American
Universities in Florence. For several years she worked in San Francisco
as a Film Editor for Francis Ford Coppola. Now she lives in the countryside
in Tuscany and loves it. Recently she has decided to share some of
her family's Tuscan cooking secrets (such as her father Mario's amazing
chicken cacciatora recipe...)
RiccardoRiccardo was born in Florence and studied graphic design and history of art at the Istituto d'Arte and at the University of Florence. He works in graphic design, a job which took him to live ten years in New York, three more in Rome and one year in Barcelona, before returning to Italy with his family to help set up Organic Tuscany. He has always been an excellent cook and is passionate about Tuscan food and wine.
Manuela Our Chef
Manuela is a Tuscan mother of two teenage girls, and is from Impruneta in the heart of the Chianti. She will teach you how to make her melt-in-the-mouth sformati (vegetable flan-like souffles), aubergine croquettes (to die for!), and her amazing Torta della Nonna. As well as having a solid base in traditional Tuscan cuisine, Manuela enjoys adding her own twists to classic dishes (such as adding a few coriander seeds to her fresh basil pesto sauce - try it and see!)
Michael Your guide to Florence
Michael came to Florence many years ago and instantly fell in love with this enchanting city. He has been eagerly learning about its history and its culture ever since.
When you have him as your guide, he'll share his wide knowledge with you by pointing out hidden details and telling you the stories behind the stones - making for a richly informative and entertaining experience.
He thinks it is a privilege to walk the streets that Michelangelo walked and with just a little imagination, see them as Michelangelo saw them. He'll help you to do just that!
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 Responsible travel? On our cooking holidays we'd like to help you leave as small an eco-footprint as possible. We compost or recycle practically all waste. All the places we visit are nearby and we pool transport whenever possible. We support local farms, accommodation providers and a host of other local businesses. And it really is possible to get from the UK to here in Italy by train (sometimes very cheaply!) 2008 - remaining weeks
Contact us If you'd like to speak to us, you can either call our number in Italy or use our UK or US numbers (we answer them from here in Italy!)
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us from the UK 0208 144 9164
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us from the US 347 417 5907