MONTHLY COURSE STARTING ON NOVEMBER 17th

Lesson 1 – November 17th  – 2 :00/05:30 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 –– November 18th - 5:30 /09:00 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 – November 19th - 9:30 am/01:00 pm chef Antonella La Macchia

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 –  November 21st– 9:30 am /01:00 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 –– November 22nd (Saturday)  - 9:30 am  /013:00 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 – November 24th   – 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 – November 25th  – 02:00 /05:30 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 – November 26th  – 02:00 /05:30 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 –November 27th – 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 – November 28th – 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 – December 1st – 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 – Decemebr 2nd – 9:30 am /01:00 pm

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

         

  Lesson 13 – December 3rd– 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 – December 4th  – 9:30 am /01:00 pm

Lecture : the words in the kitchen

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

    Lesson 15 – December 5th    – 9:30/ am 01:00  pm

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

Lesson 16 – Decemebr 8th    – 5:30 /09:00 pm

 SWEET AND SOUR TRADITION 1 : Caponata, Pork with liquorice,Lobster with blueb erries

 Lesson 17 – December 9th – 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 – December 10th –  9:30 am /01:00 pm

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

Lecture: Fancy sugar.

   Lesson 19 – December 11th – 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 – Decemebr 12th – 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, analysing procedures, flavours, Italian sense of taste.