A TASTE OF ITALY WITH A NEW START
A complete package for tourists interested in learning about the Salento area of Italy and its fine cuisine and culinary experiences. Getting hands on knowledge of the how-to-do local specialities.
The main issue is how to avoid all the commercial food products that are damaging our health, economy and life styles and so by learning to start from the basics and back to the beginning is the easiest and cheapest thing to do. Thus giving you a healthier chance in life for you and your loved ones by providing excellent products of which you know its ingredients. You don’t have to be a master chef to learn how to make Italian mozzarella or other fresh cheeses, how to make your own healthy and sumptuous pizzas, to dish up a line of starters, make your own bread, your own pasta and sauces, cocktails or liqueurs. It is infinite what we do daily here and all with the basic ingredients that are so much more convenient for us all and in the end save in many more ways than one!
Your stay will be in the heart of the Salento countryside among the olive groves that provide extra virgin olive oil renowned for their precious health properties for our wellbeing and unrivaled organoleptic properties! We are two structure that have combined our strengths and principles in healthy living to accommodate more and more people that want to know how to do things the easy and healthy way. The Italian way of life. We are combining your stay in Salento at one of the two structures and offering our services and knowledge to you. The package holidays are available from end August through to June every year. The weather here is fine all through the autumn and winter with very mild temperatures and many tourists in the area prefer it to the heat of the summer.
A complete range of activities have been organised just for your pleasure and involve you in all the activities and not just to stand and watch but to get down to the nitty gritty of it all!!
There will be visits to taste Salento’s fine wines on the wine road that will take you to at least one wine cellar to taste their produce and view the land where the grapes grow.
Touring the magnificent olive groves where quality extra virgin olive oil is obtained on the olive trail. You can taste the different oils and different olives done in different ways to serve as cocktails or nibbles.
Alternatively you can visit a mill to see exactly how Extra Virgin Olive Oil is produced.
You are tired and aching we have an excellence with our fine and superb masseuse on hand ready to give you a relaxing or invigorating massage if you desire. Alternatively, you can have a fast course on how to make a beneficial massage properly. Group therapy can also be organized at will, always conducted by the therapist. So your body will be ready to face the days with more flexibility and ease!
Another day, using raw fresh milk in the farm where a specialist, one of the most important Salento producers, will show you how to cook raw milk and turn it into mozzarella together with the explanations and tasting of other specialties of local fresh cheeses. Alternatively, visit another local farm where daily fresh milk is converted into dairy products of exceptional quality.
Half a day to make liqueurs at home. Liqueurs’ since the '500 were being prepared and produced in the convents and homes and then offered to the guests as a good wish. Delicious and each one takes their name of the ingredient used. For example, using mint it is called mint, Rosolio for rose petals or laurel when using bay leaves etc. etc.
It will be arranged to make a specific pizza dough and will be demonstrated by a well known pizza man who is also a professional lawyer. Explaining all the favorable points as he goes on. Then in the evening everyone takes part in manipulating and baking their own pizzas in our specific wood-burning oven. Alternatively there is another and no less important dough that is very Salentina and the tradition of the Puccia. And always with lots of explanations and hands in the dough you realize your great Puccia dinner.
There will be a class on how to make pasta starting from scratch and different sauces. This will just thrill your own guests when back home, tasting your home-made pasta!! Getting your hands into the pastry and developing your own skills in learning how to make a super dish from scratch. Forget all the complicated recipe books and get hands on knowledge and using the most simple ingredients to develop superb dishes.
Contact us for further details and costs. You will be amazed at how cheap it is and how fully packed too and with many many surprises.
A complete package for tourists interested in learning about the Salento area of Italy and its fine cuisine and culinary experiences. Getting hands on knowledge of the how-to-do local specialities.
The main issue is how to avoid all the commercial food products that are damaging our health, economy and life styles and so by learning to start from the basics and back to the beginning is the easiest and cheapest thing to do. Thus giving you a healthier chance in life for you and your loved ones by providing excellent products of which you know its ingredients. You don’t have to be a master chef to learn how to make Italian mozzarella or other fresh cheeses, how to make your own healthy and sumptuous pizzas, to dish up a line of starters, make your own bread, your own pasta and sauces, cocktails or liqueurs. It is infinite what we do daily here and all with the basic ingredients that are so much more convenient for us all and in the end save in many more ways than one!
Your stay will be in the heart of the Salento countryside among the olive groves that provide extra virgin olive oil renowned for their precious health properties for our wellbeing and unrivaled organoleptic properties! We are two structure that have combined our strengths and principles in healthy living to accommodate more and more people that want to know how to do things the easy and healthy way. The Italian way of life. We are combining your stay in Salento at one of the two structures and offering our services and knowledge to you. The package holidays are available from end August through to June every year. The weather here is fine all through the autumn and winter with very mild temperatures and many tourists in the area prefer it to the heat of the summer.
A complete range of activities have been organised just for your pleasure and involve you in all the activities and not just to stand and watch but to get down to the nitty gritty of it all!!
There will be visits to taste Salento’s fine wines on the wine road that will take you to at least one wine cellar to taste their produce and view the land where the grapes grow.
Touring the magnificent olive groves where quality extra virgin olive oil is obtained on the olive trail. You can taste the different oils and different olives done in different ways to serve as cocktails or nibbles.
Alternatively you can visit a mill to see exactly how Extra Virgin Olive Oil is produced.
You are tired and aching we have an excellence with our fine and superb masseuse on hand ready to give you a relaxing or invigorating massage if you desire. Alternatively, you can have a fast course on how to make a beneficial massage properly. Group therapy can also be organized at will, always conducted by the therapist. So your body will be ready to face the days with more flexibility and ease!
Another day, using raw fresh milk in the farm where a specialist, one of the most important Salento producers, will show you how to cook raw milk and turn it into mozzarella together with the explanations and tasting of other specialties of local fresh cheeses. Alternatively, visit another local farm where daily fresh milk is converted into dairy products of exceptional quality.
Half a day to make liqueurs at home. Liqueurs’ since the '500 were being prepared and produced in the convents and homes and then offered to the guests as a good wish. Delicious and each one takes their name of the ingredient used. For example, using mint it is called mint, Rosolio for rose petals or laurel when using bay leaves etc. etc.
It will be arranged to make a specific pizza dough and will be demonstrated by a well known pizza man who is also a professional lawyer. Explaining all the favorable points as he goes on. Then in the evening everyone takes part in manipulating and baking their own pizzas in our specific wood-burning oven. Alternatively there is another and no less important dough that is very Salentina and the tradition of the Puccia. And always with lots of explanations and hands in the dough you realize your great Puccia dinner.
There will be a class on how to make pasta starting from scratch and different sauces. This will just thrill your own guests when back home, tasting your home-made pasta!! Getting your hands into the pastry and developing your own skills in learning how to make a super dish from scratch. Forget all the complicated recipe books and get hands on knowledge and using the most simple ingredients to develop superb dishes.
Contact us for further details and costs. You will be amazed at how cheap it is and how fully packed too and with many many surprises.