MONTHLY COURSE STARTING ON JUNE 30TH

PROGRAM:

Lesson 1 – June30 – 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

PASTA 1 : DRY AND FRESH PASTA. Different flours. Basic recipes of simple pasta with semolina (tagliatelle, tagliolini, taglierini garganelli, orecchiette emiliane, sfrappole); pasta with mixtures of 00 flour and semolina; orecchiette pugliesi .

Lecture: The history of pasta: legend and truth

    Lesson 2 –– July 1st - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

BASIC PREPARATIONS  The pre-preparation in the kitchen: broths, stocks, consommè and bisque. Lecture: Sauces and stocks: tradition and innovation

Lecture: How many tomato sauces exist?

Lecture: Caramel and syrup

Tale: Tuscany meets Main

Tale : Tuscany meets Maine

Lesson 3 – July 2nd  9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

MEAT 1 : traditional searing and roasting and low cooking. Traditional nonna’s style low cooking and post modern rare-ness. Recipes: Abbacchio alla Romana; Pullus fusillis; Vitellina fricta.

Lecture: the Italian diversities

Lesson 4 –  July 3rd  – 02:00 - 05:30 pm

PASTA 2 : STUFFED PASTA. Ravioli, tortellini, agnolotti. Folding of pasta, stuffing, presentation from traditional to modern style.  Ravioli stuffed with broth gelatine.

Lesson 5 –– July 4th  - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

FISH 1 :  Practise: how to fillet the fish. Recipes:  Raw fish, Tuna fish Sicilian style; Sword fish with citrus sauce and celery soufflé; Sea bream with artichokes;   Molluscs  soup.

Lecture: What characterize my cuisine

Tale: The molluscs soup

Lesson 6 – July 7th  - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

PASTA 3 : PASTA MADE WITH DIFFERENT FLOURS. The use of buck wheat, hazelnut, beans purees, kamut, Recipes: traditional Pasta and fagioli; Marcella’s Pasta and Fagioli;

  Lesson 7 – July 8th - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

  VEGETABLE 1 : the vegetables on the Italian table. Seasonality and nutritional value.

Recipes: Classic Melanzane alla Parmigiana and modern variations; Eggplant mousse in chocolate bomb;  Minestrone; Delicate lentils soup.

Lecture: Vegetables

Tale: Just done

Lesson 8 – July 9th - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

FISH 2 - PRESERVED COD FISH, Baccalà and Stoccafisso, from traditional recipes to foams. Anchovies and sardines: from Roman Garum to modern finger foods.

        Lesson 9 –July 10th - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

PASTA 4 : COLOURED PASTA, with vegetables.  Pasta with soy lecitine. Recipes: Green handkerchiefs with asparagus and scampis; Black taglioni with white squid; Coffee tagliatelle with artichokes; Red tagliolini with zucchini and smoked cheese

        Lesson 10 – July 11th - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

GNOCCHI : Recipes: potato gnocchi ; fuchsia with beet roos; chestnut gnocchi. Spinach dumplings; Parisienne.

Lecture : food and words

Lecture: Gnocchi

        Lesson 11 – July 14th - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

DESSERT 1 :  traditional Cantuccini and variation on it. Lecitine cookies. Savillum and other combinations of cheese and honey

        Lesson 12 – July 15th – 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

          VEGETABLES 2 :  More cold sauces; Dry pasta with vegetables – Artichoke flan; Fried zucchini.

         

        Lesson 13 – July 16th– 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

MEAT 2 : low cooking - confit, game. Recipes: Carne ‘ncartata.; Hare with blueberries and chestnuts. Wild boar , Salmì and Civet.

Lecture : Ex-ducere.

       Lesson 14 – July 17th – 02:00 - 05:30 pm

Lecture : the words in the kitchen

OFFALS : chicken liver ; tripe, pork liver, brains. Pan brioche: making bread.

        Lesson 15 – July 18th  - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

ICE CREAM  :The technique: Ice cream and Sorbets. Parmigiano ice cream for appetizer

   Lesson 16 – June 21st   – 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

 SWEET AND SOUR TRADITION 1 : Caponata, Pork with liquorice.

Tale:Tuscany meets Maine 2 (Recipe: Lobster with blueberries) 

        Lesson 17 – July 22nd - 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

AN ITALIAN TYPICAL MENU.   

Preparation of a feast Italian meal with four courses: Ravioli with cheese and pears; Ida’s veal rolls; Peas Florentine style; Glazed fruit.

    

        Lesson 18 – July 23rd - 02:00 - 05:30 pm

DESSERT 2 :  Chocolate. Two versions of salted chocolate mousse; Chocolate mousse, raspberry garnish.

Lecture: Fancy sugar.

        Lesson 19 – June 24th – 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

SWEET AND SOUR TRADITION 2: Renaissance duck breast in orange sauce; stuffed pigeon; Guinea fowl with grapes. Sarde in saor.

        Lesson 20 – July 25th – 9 :30 am - 01 :00 pm

Lecture: Standardization and individualism : case or necessity ?

Class open to students’ ideas and requests.

Finger food

At the end of every class, students and teacher will taste preparations and  analyse procedures, flavours, Italian sense of taste.

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