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In 2011, we will be offering a very special eight-day edition of our Tyrolean Culinary School, pairing it with our "Sipping with the Sommeliers" package. This gourmet's delight will take place in the Italian Dolomites located in the Italian Alps. It features intimate cooking lessons and demonstrations with several master executive chefs and sommeliers as well as daily morning excursions and activities that will delight the most discriminating gourmet!
- Classes are taught by Executive Master Chef Giuseppe Cavallari. Chef Giuseppe has taken part in many Italian culinary competitions and has won many awards. Among the highlights of his career are the personal compliments he received from Italy's most famous chef, Gianfranco Vissani.
- You will enjoy five afternoons of formal cooking instruction with Chef Giuseppe in the professional kitchen of the first-rate regional restaurant, La Canisela, and the premiere historical hotel, the Grand Hotel Des Alpes, located in San Martino di Castrozza.
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 Each hands-on class lasts approximately 3 hours, and 5 complete, multi-course menus based on local and regional cuisine will be explored. On the days that a formal class is held, your dinner will be the result of your efforts.
- Class size for this very popular cooking vacation is limited to enhance the one-on-one experience enjoyed by each student, but all guests taking part in the vacation (all students and their families) participate in the morning group activities.
- Families and traveling companions will be able to share in and enjoy the multi-course, gourmet dinners that result from the students' efforts in the kitchen. They also have the option of signing up for "Sipping with the Sommeliers." We have many diverse local activities available to companions and family members, including children, joining our students during this spectacular culinary vacation.
- In addition to the local activities available, guests not taking part in the cooking school portion of this food and wine vacation might be interested in some of our fee-based, "add-on" activites offered during the same time frame as the afternoon cooking lessons.
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 The morning, scenic excursions included in your Tyrolean cooking vacation will take you to exotic and breath-taking locations where you will enjoy: making Tosela cheese in the kitchen of a high mountain dairy at the top of a cable car; participating in various cooking demonstrations and optional grappa degustations in various locations; delighting in a private tour of the cheese factory in Italy that makes the Italian award-winning Nostrano di Primiero cheese, and many more exciting experiences nestled in one of the most heart-beating and phenomenal backdrops in the world, the internationally renown Dolomitic mountain chain, the Pale di San Martino, recognized in 2009 by UNESCO as being a world treasure of humanity.
Our late August/early September session is sold out. We are in the final planning stages of organizing custom, private one-day cooking experiences throughout September and October for visitors traveling in the region who would like to explore the Italian Alps and Dolomites during their vacation in Italy. This one-day getaway is the perfect cruise shore excursion for travelers docking in Venice, which is only 68 miles away. Please contact us for more information on how we can customize a unique, culinary experience for you!
Our signature wine degustation series, "Sipping with the Sommeliers", may be added to your cooking vacations taking place in San Martino di Castrozza., and these sessions take place at dinner, when Sommeliers Gianluca Rimondi (owner of "La Canisela") and Carlo Squillaci (maître d'hôtel of the Grand Hotel Des Alpes) lead students and their companions through a palate-pleasing degustation of regional, doc wines paired with each course prepared earlier during your lesson with Chef Giuseppe. A minimum of three wines will be presented per meal.
Sommelier Gianluca Rimondi, owner of La Canisela restaurant. Photo courtesy of Gianluca Rimondi.
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The Grand Hotel Des Alpes and La Canisela Restaurant in San Martino di Castrozza, Italy, are renown for their award-winning chefs. Students in our Tyrolean Cooking Vacation enjoy six 3-hour lessons in the kitchen with Master Executive Chef Giuseppe Cavallari and his team. Photo: Gianluca Rimondi..jpg)
