Lucca Cooking Class: Market Tour and Traditional Recipes

Immerse yourself in the vibrant local market of Lucca, learn the secrets of regional cuisine, and put your cooking skills to the test in a small group cooking class at a local’s home. Taste the delicious dishes you prepare, accompanied by local wines.

Duration: 4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Lucca - Visit the vibrant local market and the traditional food shops with the Cesarina and immerse yourself in a small group cooking class at the Cesarina’s home, learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of cuisine from Lucca and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a selection of local wine.
What's Included
  • Beverages included (water, wine, and coffee)
  • Guided market tour in a shared group setting
  • Intimate small group cooking class experience
  • Enjoy a sumptuous 3-course meal, with a choice of lunch or dinner
  • All local taxes covered
Meal Options
  • Seasonal starter

  • Fresh Pasta - Sample pasta dishes: Tordelli Lucchese or Maccheroni tortellati or Matuffi

  • Tuscan Dessert - Sample dessert dish: Castagnaccio or “Necci” pancakes or Buccellato cake or Tiramisu or similar typical desserts

Additional Information

Experience the energy of our local market and traditional food stores with the host Cesarina. Engage in an intimate small group cooking class at the host’s home, unravel the mysteries behind Lucca’s renowned dishes, and indulge in your creations paired with local wines.
During the class, Cesarina will disclose the techniques of three genuine regional…

Location
Lucca
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 after you've booked to match you up with your ideal Cesarina 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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Carolyne_t
Oct 7, 2024
Must do! - Sylvia was wonderful. I would highly recommend the experience. She gave us lovely home cooking recipes that will be easy to replicate at home.
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R7744djlisaw
Oct 3, 2024
Arrange at the beginning of your travels! - We thoroughly enjoyed going to the food markets followed by cooking (and eating) with Silvia in Lucca! We intentionally arranged this class at the very beginning of an extended stay so we would know the best markets and have ideas where to go. It was perfect! We highly recommend this experience and especially recommend Silvia as a welcoming host, teacher, and friendly person.
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Sightsee314459
Sep 18, 2024
Cooking in Lucca at its best - Sylvia was wonderful speaks great English. She has a beautiful apartment in the middle of Lucca. We went to the market and back to the house and made 3 great dishes.
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Diane0514
Oct 19, 2023
Cooking with Monica....simply the best! - It was truly a pleasure spending the day with Monica and her husband. Our group thoroughly enjoyed our pasta making and enjoyed the foods Monica prepared. She was such a delight! I would highly recommend this activity! The only negative I have was that there was no Market tour, which is how it was advertised with "Get Your Guide", but that was no fault of Monica's. She was simply the best!
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Thowe16
Jul 9, 2023
Wonderful! - Silvia was delightful, warm, friendly, patient, great sense of humor! It was my birthday and she greeted me with the most amazing bouquet of flowers! It was fun going to the local markets, and we enjoyed helping in the kitchen and learning to make the dishes which were all fabulous. We drank some wine, and even danced! Her home was very warm and welcoming. I recommend this trip! We had a party of 5 and everyone loved it! Please have the recipes emailed to me, would love to recreate!
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Monica_a
Apr 29, 2023
Cesarine in Lucca - This was such a fun experience. I was made to feel comfortable and created delicious food under the guidance of Sylvia.
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Faye
Sep 22, 2019
A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE EXPLORING THE MARKET AND COOKING WITH CARLA - My day visiting the Lucca shops and market and cooking with Carla was my best day in Lucca. She was very knowledgeable, a great cook, a patient teacher and a wonderful host. It was fantastic to be able to go into her home and cook with her. We did so much,a great ragu and home made pasta some amazing chicken liver pate, crostini and tiramisu to finish off. I also learnt a lot just in general conversation so if you do this experience ask questions. Carla treated me to some wonderful very cold Italian prosecco. I can certainly recommend an experience with Carla.
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Jgostling
Sep 21, 2019
Fantastic experience - cannot recommend highly enough! - We did the Lucca local market tour and home cooking class with Marco and Maria in September. It was an absolutely fantastic experience! The hosts were friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable, and made us feel comfortable from the outset. Their home was the perfect setting and the whole experience really made our trip to Lucca one to remember! Thank you Marco and Maria!
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