Private live streaming cooking classes on Tuscan specialties

Virtual italian cooking class

2024 virtual activities!  Enjoy a Tuscan cooking class with Arianna or Massimo from your home!

We know you would like to travel to Italy, come to visit Tuscany, spend time with us and discover the hidden gems of our country. We know you are thrilled to experience the highlight of your trip to Italy with Arianna & Friends’s culinary and cultural tours, try local food and enjoy delicious wines. Yet, maybe this is not any time soon, so what can we do?

Well, we are ready to share with you our fantastic culinary traditions in a different way: we are offering private live streaming cooking classes from our Tuscan kitchens! Are you in? It is a great way to stay connected and for you, a great way to almost feel like you are visiting Tuscany with us, while staying safely home. We will both share with you the recipes of our families, and tell you about our culture and traditions. Get virtually into our private kitchen and, as good friends, let’s cook together, sipping some good wine! It will be a fun and educational experience. Connect via Zoom and enjoy your wonderful cooking day!

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WHERE?

The unique setting of your kitchen
The location of this cooking class cannot be more familiar to you! Enjoy a live streaming cooking class right from your home. You do not need very specific tools and it is not important to be well acquainted with advanced cooking techniques. You will have a lot of fun just using the equipments you have by learning some simple and efficient cooking approaches.

WHO?

The chance to extend the class to your family, relatives and friends
If you want to share this experience with other people of your circle, we give you the possibility to share this private class with your family, relatives or friends even if they are staying somewhere else. You can sign up together with others in your party for up to 12 different connected devices, located in any place. It will be a lot of fun all together, yet still respecting social distancing.

Arianna or Massimo as your tutors
We are two Tuscan natives, Arianna and Massimo, and we are founders and owners of the specialty tour operator Arianna & Friends. We have been giving cooking in-person classes to visitors of Tuscany for over 13 years together with our local “granny style” chefs as speakers and story-tellers/guides. Since April 2020 we have been giving oline cooking classes to our guests from all over the world, with the same informal and friendly style, and with the same passion and love. We are glad to share our knowledge and expertise with you too!

WHAT?

We will agree on the menu of the class
The first step after you contact us is agreeing on the menu of our cooking class. Here below you find a menu list for you to choose from. There are three formulas:

Menu options
Menu formula A: 1 type of fresh pasta + 1 sauce – Duration: min 1.5/2 hours Menu formula B: 2 dishes from the list below (no fresh pasta) – Duration: min 2/2,5 hours Menu formula C: 1 type of fresh pasta + 1 sauce + 1 other dish from the list below – Duration: min 2.5/3 hours

A delicious lunch or dinner after the class
The class is a great and amusing opportunity to prepare your dinner or lunch, which you will enjoy right in the end. We will have the chance to have some nice toasts, even if from a far distance, and appoint to meet in real once all this will be over.
Vegetarian or vegan options available on request.

WHEN & HOW LONG?

We will study the best timing according to your time zone
As we will be airing from Italy (Central European Time, CET +1), it is important that the timing for the class is agreed on. We will choose the best timing also considering that each class takes a minimum of 90 minutes for the A menu formula to 2.5 hours for the C menu formula (time for your meal not considered). The starting time can be any time, and you can choose to book this experience in the morning with lunch or afternoon with dinner, but please be informed that it cannot start later than 9 pm Italy time.

HOW?

We will send you a zoom invitation

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HOW TO SIGN UP & PAY?

PAYMENTS BY CREDIT CARD

1. DOWNLOAD OUR BOOKING FORM – PDF version or DOC version and fill it in the with your booking details & your credit card details
2. Send the form back per email to: info@ariannandfriends.com

PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL

Please use this link or click in the button below.  PayPal name of our company on your records: ARIANNA FR (ARIANNA AND FRIENDS)

PAYMENTS BY BANK WIRE

1. DOWNLOAD OUR BOOKING FORM – PDF version or DOC version and fill it in the with your booking details 
2. Find the details for a bank wire at the bottom of this page or in the form and order a bank transfer.
   Please, note that all transaction expenses shall be on your side.
3. Send the form and the bank statement back per email to: info@ariannandfriends.com

Beneficiary Name: Arianna and Friends S.r.l. Beneficiary Address: Via G. Carducci 9, 56037 Peccioli (PI)
Bank name: BANCO BPM, Filiale di Peccioli
IBAN code: IT26D0503471100000000001381
SWIFT: BAPPIT21T90
REASON: LIVE STREAMING COOKING CLASS

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All stuff and materials ready for cooking

These are some of the specialties that you can prepare during our virtual cooking class:

Pappa al pomodoro

Pappa al pomodoro

One of the most delicious specialties of Tuscany: a base of red tomato sauce and garlic and stale bread make a thick bread soup, dressed with extra virgin olive oil and finished with leaves of basil or sage.

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Panzanella

Panzanella

One of the most delicious salads of Tuscany, based on bread and fresh vegetables like cucumbers, onion, tomatoes and basil and dressed with extra virgin olive oil and Tuscan vinegar.

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Tagliatelle ai porcini

Tagliatelle ai porcini

One of the best toppings for home made tagliatelle is a delicious sauce of porcini mushrooms sauted in olive oil with garlic, hot pepper and parsley.

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Tiramisù alle fragole

Tiramisù alle fragole

Strawberry tiramisu is a delicious alternative to the classical recipe, in which fresh strawberries substiute chocolate and coffee. A version that is particularly indicated in Spring and Summer.

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Tiramisù tradizionale

Tiramisù tradizionale

A traditional tiramisu is based on spongy cookies alternated to mascarpone cream, topped with cocoa powder and added with chocolate bits. One of the most famous desserts of Italy!

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Pollo alla cacciatora

Pollo alla cacciatora

A delicious meat dish based on local free range chicken stewed in a base of fresh vegetables and extra virgin olive oil, refined with seasonal tomatoes and finally dressed with Tuscan black olives.

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Spezzatino di manzo con patate

Spezzatino di manzo con patate

Beef stewed in vegetables, extra virgin olive oil and wine and finally dressed with potatoes. One of the most typical secondi for your Tuscan dinner.

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In our cooking class we like telling you a lot about Tuscan farms and farmers' cooking traditions, introducing you to Tuscan people with their personal stories, careers and characters.
In this special kind of class, you will have Arianna or Massimo who will explain to you how to prepare many delicious recipes they have learned in over 13 years of cooking classes as guides and speakers with local Tuscan granny chefs.

Arianna

guide

Arianna

Founder and owner at Arianna & Friends'

And that's me, Arianna. When I was a student at the univeristy together with Massimo, we had a dream. We knew already we wanted somehow to spread our culture, but we didn't know in which ways yet. And we knew we needed to first get more educated ourselves, to go deeper in what for us belonged to our everyday life, before making it avaiable to the others. We made a lot of researches, made many contacts, and we finally found a good way to become ambassadors of the Tuscan culture, taditions and lifestyle. Yes, I admit it, the power that moved everything was my passion for food! For good food, and in particular for the good food of my mamma and my nonna, hehehh! It was learning from them that I started thinking that I couldn't miss the opportunity to share all I knew with others. It couldn't be different because here where we live, food IS culture! And so we made up a name for our project, our future business, that had to give this message: spend time with us, your Tuscan friends and you'll feel like in a family and you'll experience Tuscany in a very authentic way. So the name Arianna & Friends was picked as the best choice. Personally, I love planning, making people happy, organizing, having crazy ideas .. so crazy that sometimes Massimo needs to bring me down to earth! I like making sure that people are more than satisfied when they come back home. I'm lucky to have Massimo, Consuelo, Moira, Luca with me along with all the other "boys and girls" that help us providing excellent services, all of us, always with a big smile on our faces :)

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Massimo

guide

Massimo

Co-founder and owner at Arianna & Friends'

Ciao a tutti! It’s Massimo here. I’m the “first one” of the friends of Arianna in order of appearance, as we first met me when we were… ehm … at the high school! Well, the first “activities” we arranged together were those many teenagers do, like going to rock concerts (long live Metallica!), barbecuing, drinking inexpensive wine, mainly with no understanding of it. In over 25 years we became more serious adults; so serious that we finished university together and we then decided to start a business from scratch, back in 2007, in an area where nothing like this existed before. I am a natural born teacher, as I’ve always liked sharing knowledge on the beauties of the world with other people. When I started sharing the wisdom of the local cuisine with visitors to Tuscany or showing them the rooted traditions behind a wheel of local pecorino cheese, I realized how fantastic my job is. In fact I discovered that being a wine & food guide is a sophisticated way of being a good teacher, so I can’t help but love it! In the A&F team I’m the multi-language guide or assistant in all activities we offer, from cooking classes, to wine & food tours, from Italian language classes to vespa tours. In the low season I deal with the website development and content management. As I am very curious, I spend all my free time travelling all over the world and of course going on learning as much as I can: over the last few years I took part in several seminaries on extra virgin olive oil, I started a three-year course to become a sommelier, I experienced a professional training to become gelato maker and I decided to never give up in learning the Arabic language. Stay connected as we will soon come up with some new great ideas for your entertainment and enjoyment of our beautiful region! Ci vediamo in Toscana!

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