In my opinion, recipes are some of the best souvenirs that you can bring home. It’s a great way to share your travels with your family and friends! When you’re looking at which cooking classes in Italy to take, make sure to read about traditional Italian foods to see if you’re going have the opportunity to learn a local or regional specialty! We always try to find classes that use seasons ingredients or focus on something unique to our destination!
We learned to make the pasta dough by hand, fill and shape tortellini and tortelli, and cut tagliatelle by hand. They're explained how to create fillings that will work for the various pasta shapes. We used ricotta and Spinach for the tortelli and a blend of meats and cheese for the tortellini. There were a lot of laughs as we learned, which made the class even more enjoyable.
One of my favorite parts of this class was being able to try tortellini in brodo (broth), which is a typical holiday meal in Bologna. (You can find totellini in brodo in Florence at Trattoria Sostanza!) The flavors is so rich and absolutely delicious.
Bologna Cooking Classes Fresh Pasta Class in Bologna