Cooking Schools, Courses, and Classes in Italy

Casa Gregorio offers a 6-day cooking school program, with classes taught by a chef from Rome, in their bed and breakfast set in a medieval hilltop village between Rome and Naples.

Select Italy arranges cooking classes and food tours in several regions of Italy.

The Awaiting Table offers cooking classes from one-day to a full week. Learn to cook authentic Italian food in Lecce, a beautiful city in the southern region of Puglia.

Cartolina Tours is a boutique travel planning company designing custom itineraries and small group tours throughout Italy. They can arrange cooking classes and wine tastings in Amalfi Coast, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Tuscany, as well as airfare, hotels, train tickets, museum tickets, private tours - you name it.

Convivio Rome offers Italian cooking holidays in the hilltop village of Toffia in the region of Sabina near Rome. Courses are long weekend (3 nights) or one week and include local tours and tastings. The program is run by an Australian woman and her Roman husband.

Cook in Italy is a traditional Italian cuisine cooking school with two venues - one in Tuscany (Isola d'Elba) and the other one in Torino. They offer full week, half week, and stand alone classes.

Guilian Hazan, some of cookbook author Marcella Hazan, offers classes at a villa near Verona.

Cooking Vacations offers cooking classes and culinary tours in several parts of Italy including Tuscany, Amalfi Coast, Bologna, Venice, and Umbria. They also have special programs for kids and families, women only, couples, corporations, and seasonal cooking.

Culture Discovery offers Italian cooking vacations in Tuscany, Umbria, and northern Lazio (north of Rome).

Cookbook author Diane Seed offers cooking courses in Rome, Amalfi Coast, and Puglia, Italy.

Flavor of Italy offers cooking classes at their Rome B&B, cooking vacations in other parts of Italy, and eno-gastronomical outings.

Fontana del Papa is more than just an Italian cooking school. You will become part of an Italian family while learning to create and eating great Italian meals in a beautiful setting in northern Lazio.

Gourmet on Tour is a premier travel specialist with culinary programs, from one day to one week, that include hands-on cooking classes on the Amalfi Coast and in the Tuscany, Umbria, and Veneto regions. Guests have an opportunity to learn about local cuisine and culture while visiting and eating in some of Italy's most picturesque destinations.

Cooking courses and tours in the southern Italian region of Calabria, the toe of the boot. Specialty tours include a children's cooking tour, fishing lessons, photography tours, and a yacht cruise to the Aeolian Islands.

International Kitchen offers cooking school vacations in several regions of Italy. Some of the cooking vacations are very luxurious.

La Cucina at Gelso Bianco is a week-long culinary program offered by Southern Visions Travel. Students stay on restored masseria, or farm estate, near Alberobello in Puglia. Special weeks include guest chefs and wine immersion programs.

La Tavola Marche Agriturismo and Cooking School is a 300 year old stone farmhouse inn, set on 500 acres of organic farmland, rolling hills and truffle rich woods specializing in hands-on, farm to fork cooking classes in central Italy's Marche region.

Cooking classes for 1-day, 4 days, or a full week on a country farm near Perugia.

Mama Isa offers small group hands-on cooking classes with emphasis on fresh ingredients, traditional Italian technique and nice presentation or food. Classes are held in the center of Padova, a beautiful city near Venice.

Mama Margaret and Friends offers cooking tours to Piedmont and Bologna in northern Italy, Tuscany, Sicily, and the Amalfi Coast.

Stile Mediterraneo promotes the Mediterranean lifestyle and helps people experience the best of Southern Italy. They offer cooking and wine holidays in Puglia and Sicily. Accommodation and classes are in luxury villas or trulli houses.