108 Violante cook
Cook in a very fashionable way.
An exclusive Italian experience, about lifestyle, culture & passion for food
The Most Hon. Marquise Violante Guerrieri Gonzaga, painter, photographer and sophisticated “cook”, cookbook writer and expert in “tablescaping” will welcome you on her trendy terrace as her personal guests…
For her great aesthetic sense and passion for colours and creativity she invented with success the” Vio’s Cooking” experience years ago.
Many important people have passed by:
LOCATION:
ROME, historical city center
A stunning 15th-century palace with an astonishing roof top terrace.
STYLE OF EXPERIENCE:
COOKING ACADEMIES & ASTONISHING LOCATIONS
DURATION:
Duration on-site (hours. ±1): 5
It’s NOT just a cooking class, be serious, it’s a “cooking with the stars day” and a way to be introduced to all the secrets of the perfect way to prepare luxury dishes and, above all, you will learn how to prepare a perfect luxury table, worthy of a queen!
All Violante’s dishes are accompanied to excellent wines but one of the best wines of Italy happens to be just her family production, the famous “San Leonardo” wine, world renowned and multiple award winner (Wine Spectator’s magazine TOP 100…).
You will meet Violante at the Campo de Fiori market and together you will buy fresh ingredients, then go up to the roof top of her ancient building to have an aperitif in the panoramic tower.
So at work, the cooking class starts for three spectacular courses that you will cook and then you will taste with Violante.
The lesson, amusing but professional, will also focus on the topic of table equipment and wine pairing.
It all starts shopping at Campo dei Fiori the most typical roman fresh market buying fresh and authentic food and flowers.
Then the cooking class, cooking delicious haute cuisine Italian food and eating joyfully together the menu that has been created.
Everything magically settled and presented on Palazzo Taverna’s roof top terrace with one of the most stunning views in the heart of Rome!
Violante Guerrieri Gonzaga lives in her family house Palazzo Taverna, in the center of Rome, with a unique and simply astonishing terrace looking on the dome of San Pietro….
Violante has attended the Accademia Belle Arti di Roma: she is an artist, painter and a photographer.
Violante’s menus are the result of a long research about ancient recipes of her house and of the cooks of her family.
Her recipes fly from the top north of Italy to the bottom south and touch all the different Italian regions.
A unique Italian experience, about lifestyle, Italian culture and passion for food.
This is an exclusive experience created by Violante selected groups of people coming in Rome that want to feel and taste “the eternal city” in a very private and different way, as “guests, not tourists”…
Marquise Violante Guerrieri Gonzaga indulges with all fresh and authentic ingredients (you’ll buy them with her in the street market…) and makes her own special and magic recipes that you can find in her new successful book “Vio’s Cooking, an Italian Lifestyle”.
Rates per person:
ADULT (≥18 yo):
Pax 2: € 2.640
Pax 3: € 1.760
Pax 4: € 1.320
Pax 5: € 1.320
Pax 6: € 1.320
Pax 7: € 1.320
Pax 8: € 1.320
MINOR (6-17 yo): Not Available
INFANT (0-5 yo): Not Available
Prices for experience only; ask for transfers prices.
Just tell us how many people and your starting location.
• The world, the table and the lifestyle of the most fashionable people in Rome… and, obviously, VIOLANTE!!!
TOP WINES of the experience, Wine Spectator Top 100:
• The world, the table and the lifestyle of the most fashionable people in Rome… and, obviously, VIOLANTE!!!
TOP WINES of the experience, Wine Spectator Top 100:
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