I booked online a cooking class given by the Food and Wine Academy. It's a 6 hours program that starts with product tastings at the Central Market, buying the ingredients and then going to a full equipped kitchen and learn how to cook some real tuscan dishes by a famous local chef. It's 79 euros per person and worth every cent ! First of all, at the central market, you get to taste all kinds of extra virgin olive oil. Also, real balsamic vinegar, aged in barrels for about 10 or 15 and even 30 years and what's shocking is that the usual balsamic vinegar that we have in our houses, everyday with our salads is nothing like the real tuscan one ! We also got to taste different kinds of cheeses, dipped with different jams, some truffle honey (delicious) and some truffle oil. We got the ingredients that we needed and then headed to the kitchen to start the cooking! We started by making the tiramisu because it takes time to set in the fridge, then we made our own pasta, with no machines, just ur hands and the roller pin, it was too kind of pastas, tagliatelle with bolognese sauce and ravioli filled with ricotta, parmesan cheese with butter and green sage sauce. It was surprisingly easy to make and delicious to eat ! Of course everything was first demonstrated by the chef, and he assists you all the way. At the end we get to sit all of us on a big table, enjoy our food with a glass of wine and we even get a certificate :)
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