Learn Italian & Oenology in Orbetello

Standard Course combined with 2 cultural outdoor activities, 1 full day excursion and 3 culinary activities (alternating wine, oil and bio food tastings and visits to farms) per week. Students are led by professional cooks in the preparation of dishes, tastings and visits of farms.The Tuscan Maremma is one of the Italian regions in which the food-industry tends more towards organic production processes and finds a natural ally in the most ancient tradition of Mediterranean cuisine and wine making. The students attending this course will be able to enter the kitchen of traditional Italian families and prepare, with their own hands and under the guidance of expert cooks, traditional dishes (from starters to desserts), and to taste these dishes with some of the best Italian wines. What is included in the programme: - 4 hours group lessons (Monday to Friday, 20 hours per week); - 2 cultural outdoor activities in groups (duration depending on distance and kind of activity, 2-5 hours each); - 1 full day excursion in groups at the first weekend (8-12 hours); - 3 culinary activities (alternating wine, oil and bio food tastings and visits to farms) per week. The student is led by professional cooks in the preparation of dishes, during tastings and visits of farms. The student is accompanied in a private car by a teacher who acts as a cultural and linguistic mediator and provides the necessary point of connection between school and restaurants, Italian families and farms where activities take place. Duration depends on type of activity and distance. The culinary activities may consist of: - Samples of traditional food, followed by dinner and conversation with the family in an Italian home; - Visit of agricultural food companies in the Maremma with the possibility of typical dinners, tastings of food and local wines; - Visit of the fish farming plant of the fishermen in the Orbetello lagoon or assistance at the arrival of the fishermen, as well as with the selection and auction sale of the fish in the Ports of Monte Argentario, followed by dinner in a typical seaside restaurant.