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Lucca
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Pizza and Gelato Cooking Class in Florence with Transport from Lucca
3 h
Class
About this activity
Start your day in Lucca and meet our driver with shuttle service to Florence. Upon arrival at 9:00 there is a walking tour of Florence (1h30min) to let you explore the main roads and admire the stunning monuments of the city while our guide will tell interesting anecdotes and history of Florence.
After, you’ll have free time to walk around or to visit museums, shops before the departure of the tour. At 2:30 pm you’ll start the Pizza & Gelato class tour in which you’ll learn how to make two of the most delicious Italian dishes: pizza and ‘gelato’. Meet our chef, learn the techniques and bring home the recipes to impress your family and friends. The tour starts in Florence via Martelli 33red, where after the check-in you’ll reach by our minivan the you’ll reach by our minivan the cooking school (around 10 minutes ride). The chef will start the class by introducing the history of these Italian wonderful creations briefly. After that you will learn how to make the original Italian pizza step by step: you will be taught the tricks for tender flexible yeast dough as well as for a tasteful, yet light, tomato sauce.
Our chef will show you the right way to stretch the dough and you will have the chance to do it yourself. You will make your very own pizza: you will stretch it, sauce it and finally bake it. The result will surely be the best pizza you have ever tasted! After you have become familiar with pizza you will be taught the secrets to make Italian ‘gelato’: you will get to know the basic raw ingredients and how to select the best products. You will learn about the development and application of natural colours, the heating and freezing techniques and how they have different effects on ingredients. You will soon realize how easily you can make these delicious dishes on your own!
At the end of the class you will also get a Graduation Certificate!
After the class will take you back to the center Florence and at have free time before the shuttle service to go back to Lucca
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After, you’ll have free time to walk around or to visit museums, shops before the departure of the tour. At 2:30 pm you’ll start the Pizza & Gelato class tour in which you’ll learn how to make two of the most delicious Italian dishes: pizza and ‘gelato’. Meet our chef, learn the techniques and bring home the recipes to impress your family and friends. The tour starts in Florence via Martelli 33red, where after the check-in you’ll reach by our minivan the you’ll reach by our minivan the cooking school (around 10 minutes ride). The chef will start the class by introducing the history of these Italian wonderful creations briefly. After that you will learn how to make the original Italian pizza step by step: you will be taught the tricks for tender flexible yeast dough as well as for a tasteful, yet light, tomato sauce.
Our chef will show you the right way to stretch the dough and you will have the chance to do it yourself. You will make your very own pizza: you will stretch it, sauce it and finally bake it. The result will surely be the best pizza you have ever tasted! After you have become familiar with pizza you will be taught the secrets to make Italian ‘gelato’: you will get to know the basic raw ingredients and how to select the best products. You will learn about the development and application of natural colours, the heating and freezing techniques and how they have different effects on ingredients. You will soon realize how easily you can make these delicious dishes on your own!
At the end of the class you will also get a Graduation Certificate!
After the class will take you back to the center Florence and at have free time before the shuttle service to go back to Lucca
Features
Tourism
95%
Cultural
90%
Food
80%
Original
55%
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