Meet your host Aurelio at his home and walk to the local farmer’s market in the Pomposa square. This is an open-air organic market where locals shop. Walk through the market and explore local and regional produce sold by farmers from the region, and purchase a few ingredients that you will use during your cooking class. Back home, join?Aurelio and his mother Roberta in their small but charming traditional kitchen to learn to cook a typical Modena meal from old family recipes. Your hands-on cooking class will last about two hours, and you will cook three different dishes from scratch. Learn about the?tips and techniques involved in making a typical Bolognese pasta, a traditional side dish and a dessert like zuppa inglese (egg cream with chocolate and liquer dipped biscuits) or crostata di amerene (sour cherry tart, a typical regional dessert). Once you're done cooking, you will?sit down at the table to share the meal you helped prepare with Roberta and her sons.

Visit the vibrant local market?and the? traditional food shops?with?the Cesarina and immerse yourself in a private cooking class?at the Cesarina's home,? learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of cuisine? from Modena?and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied?by?a glass of local wine. During the lesson the Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic regional recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Each participant will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the?dishes. Then, taste?everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines.