Photos - Wine, Cooking, Truffles & Chocolate: A Foodie's Paradise in Umbria and Tuscany

Photos - Wine, Cooking, Truffles & Chocolate: A Foodie's Paradise in Umbria and Tuscany

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Oilve oil it is an experience we cannot miss in Umbria. During our cooking vacation we visit an ancient family run mill Food vacations and food tours in Umbria. We include even a chocolate class at Perugina Factory Norcia it is a small village in Umbria, in the national park of sibillini mountains, base of our experential and cooking The Michelin star dinner we are treated to in Norcia is a wonderful culinary experience Experience a truffle hunting in Umbria. With a local hunter and his dog we will walk in the forest Shops like a local and experience Umbria visiting local small fruit and butcher shops before cooking with your chef During harvest season in Umbria, we take our guests to a local farm to pick and press their own olives Our Norcia vacation features three full hands on cooking classes where we learn culinary specialties of Umbria In June, the lentil fields of Castelluccio bloom with beautiful flowers and create amazing photo opportunities Sometime happen that during a truffle hunting in our experential holiday in Umbria we found a lot of truffle Butchers in Norcia originated many of the current day practices used today for making Italian cured meats We spend the day with local truffle hunters and their award winning dogs during our Norcia vacation in Umbria We will drive up to Castelluccio in the National Park of Sibillini to enjoy poppies field during the end of June Our Umbria olive harvest vacation features an excellent in-depth look into Italian lifestyle and culture Our Umbria vacations are centered around the experiences that sound the best to our guests Our week in Norcia features a visit to a free range pig farm to see the special pigs that can only be found in this area We love giving our guests the chance to learn about and explore the diversity of Italian wine Our Norcia vacation in Umbria features a tour of a wine cellar famous for its Sagrantino wine Cooking class and Chocolate experience in Umbria Our Norcia cooking classes feature a diverse menu of both land and sea culinary specialties Making fresh pasta is an awesome hands-on experience that includes everyone in the culinary process Hunt Truffle it is a team work of hunter and his dog. Experience the most famous and traditional umbrian food In Norcia, we have the opportunity to hunt for black truffles with locals. This is a unique activity to Umbria A foodie week in Norcia cannot miss a visit to a local free range pigs farm During our Cheese Experience we will make pecorino and ricotta chesse using the traditional recipe Harvesting umbrian olives from an orchard with a family run mill We will make tagliatelle with truffle from scratch during our cooking classes in Norcia and Umbria. During our food vacation in Umbria and Norcia we taste several local, traditional products well-known all around Italy Our day trip to Montefalco includes a tour, tasting and lunch at a Sagrantino wine cellar in Umbria Sagrantino grapes it is use to make the Umbrian Sagrantino wine, one of the most famous of the region, rich in Tannin We like to do our own shopping for our hands-on cooking classes any chance we can. It is a great time to meet the locals Harvesting olive it is one of the experience we offer in our Umbrian Vacation. Spend a day harvesting and press olives The Experential week in Norcia and Umbria includes local town market and local shops where buy food before cooking class During our Norcia vacation, we have the exclusive opportunity to go truffle hunting with champion truffle-hunting dogs Experential holidays in Umbria in touch with locals. Visit to a small family run olive mill to enjoy a good Bruschetta The black truffles of Norcia are known all around Italy as the best in the country Our Norcia vacation features making fresh pecorino and ricotta cheese from scratch, taught by a local shepherd Our Norcia vacation is a great opportunity to discover some of the rare untouched beauty of Italy Our vacations are all about cultural immersion. Teaching our guests the most we can about Italian culture fuels us We get many ingredients for our hands on cooking classes from the specialty butcher shops of Norcia