Catania Home Cooking Class

Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at a local’s home in Catania. Learn the secrets of Catania cuisine, cook authentic dishes, and taste them with local wines.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Catania - Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at a local’s home, learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of Catania cuisine and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a glass of local wine.
What's Included
  • Beverages included: water, wine, and coffee
  • Exclusive private cooking class
  • Tasting sessions for 3 recipes
  • All local taxes covered
Meal Options
  • Seasonal starter
  • Fresh Pasta - Sample pasta dishes: Spaghetti alla carrettiera or Pasta alla Norma or Pasta with sardines
  • Sicilian dessert - Sample dessert dish: Cannoli siciliani or Cassata or Almond Pastries or Tiramisu or similar typical desserts
Additional Information

Engage in a private culinary class at a local’s home, uncover the secrets of renowned Catania dishes and savor the results of your efforts complemented with an array of local wines.

During this interactive session, the local chef will disclose the subtleties and nuances of 3 genuine Catania cuisines. Enjoy challenging your culinary proficiency. Every participant has a separate workstation loaded with all necessary cooking tools and ingredients required to concoct the dishes. Thereafter, relish your home-made delicacies coupled with a curated assortment of local red and white wines.

This delightful event is organized by Cesarine: Italy’s pre-eminent network of over 1000 home cooks dispersed across more than 500 cities. These enthusiastic and hospitable hosts welcome travel enthusiasts into their homes for memorable culinary adventures.

  • Please note that our Cesarine are ready and thrilled to host you in their homes! All Cesarine are always very careful and attentive of the important sanitary rules needed, even more now! The homes provide all the essential sanitary equipment for the guests (paper towels for washing hands, hand sanitizing gel and so on). Remember to always maintain 1 meter distance from each other and if not, wear masks and gloves
Location
Catania
This experience will be held in a local's home. For privacy reasons, you will receive the full address of your Cesarina host after you have booked. We will contact you by e-mail after you've booked to match you up with your ideal host based on what you are looking for.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Shawna_n
Sep 21, 2024
great food - I really appreciated Maurisimo and his class. He was so personable and knowledgeable. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. So glad I took his class. I would do it again!
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Angela_o
Aug 17, 2024
5 stars!! Highly recommended!! - Cooking with Fernanda and her family will be the highlight of our trip! She was so welcoming and made sure we understood exactly what we were doing! The food was delicious and can’t wait to recreate it again at home! She went out of her way to make sure we made it back to our ship on time! Highly recommended! Could not ask for a better experience! Thank you!
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Jeni_u
May 12, 2024
Sensational Sicily cooking experience 🎉🥂 - Chef Angela was wonderful It was very special having a cooking experience in Angela’s beautiful home. Iam taking home some special Sicilian secrets & memories to recreate with family & friends 🥰
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Tmckee67
May 2, 2024
Amazing time learning to make pasta at the chef’s home! - This was so much fun making authentic Italian in the chefs kitchen! Not only did we leave full and happy after eating pasta we made and tiramisu to die for, but the setting was absolutely beautiful. I have to say I loved Chef Maurizio, but the highlight for me was Chef’s sister. An amazing cook in her own right, and though she didn’t speak a word of English, my group had no problem deciphering her playful banter with her brother or her directions for us. Amazing experience. Don’t pass it up.
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Oztonto
Jul 21, 2023
Wonderful Culinary Experience in Catania - Not just a wonderful culinary experience but a truly uplifting journey for the soul during my time spent with Angela. If you love cooking and wonderful food you must experience this cooking class with Angela when visiting Catania. Thank you so much Angela.
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Birgitte_d
Jun 23, 2022
This cooking class was so... - This cooking class was so amazing. It was like visiting a family and I can’t recommend this enough. Lots of good foodie tips and conversations Thank you so much 🧡
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Angi
Mar 5, 2022
Wonderful experience - I really did have a wonderful evening, all three recipes we made were really delicous. Angela taught me so many things about Sicilian and Italian food traditions and cooking in general and shared so much knowledge with me. While preparing the meals, we talked about numerous subjects. I am immensely happy that I booked this class and thus had the opportunity to have this cooking class with Angela. Very highly recommended.
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Islander
Oct 30, 2019
Tasty home style meal - We learned to prepare a Catanian home style meal. From scratch: ravioli pasta, tomato sauce, filling for the ravioli, and, of course, wine! Angela is a talented chef. Everything was delicious! We recommend this Cesarina!
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Mickmd1630go
Sep 22, 2024
Very Poor Experience!!! - Very Poor Experience!!! Warning!!!. Be Very Cautious when making a booking with Cesarine for any Italian Food Experience in Italy as this could be a costly exercise !!! Their advertising is unclear or misleading and their “Customer Service Team” is not interested in customer service and will just pay you lip service.. In summary, Cesarine took $200 Euros from us and provided nothing in return…. Our Experience :- We decided to book a cooking class for 4 people as a last minute decision while holidaying in Catania with Cesarine. We made a booking on Tuesday 17th September at 8.00pm for a 1.00pm cooking class scheduled for the following day - Wednesday 18th September. We received a message from the host at 9.00pm on Tuesday 17th as quoted below. “Hi, I just received your reservation. Do you know that you booked a lunch and not a cooking class?” (This implies the host has previously had an issue with bookings or there has been some confusion regarding bookings on their site in the past…) I replied within 1 hour at 10.00pm to ask to cancel as we had wanted to book for a cooking class and not a lunch. I was told that Cesarine could not provide a refund and cancel the booking as we needed to provide “24 hours notice” to cancel. It would have been impossible to provide a 24 hour notice as the booking was only made 17 hours before the start time of the event.. We believe neither Cesarine nor the host would have been out of pocket or incurred any cost as this issue unfolded within 2 hours of my initial booking at 8.00 pm on Tuesday. The host offered to provide a pasta lunch and a dessert for 4 people for the $200 Euro price. We did not see this as fair value so we declined her offer. ($200 Euro for 4 plates of pasta and 4 desserts is very expensive compared to other restaurants we attended in Sicily) In summary, this has been the Worst experience we have had in Italy, we are all very disappointed and we are not at all satisfied with the outcome. We will be disputing the $200 Euro payment with our credit card supplier. We feel obliged to warn tourists to be Very Careful when Dealing with Cesarine!!! Mick & Linda Australia
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