Florence Cooking Class: Market & Homemade Pasta with Wine

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You'll Want to Cook Like This Every Day After Florence

You explore Florence's Central Market with a chef, select fresh ingredients, then cook lasagna with homemade pasta and tiramisu in a professional kitchen. The class includes all ingredients, Tuscan wine pairing, and a digital recipe booklet to take home. Vegetarian options are available with advance notice.

Step-by-step itinerary

Florence market and cooking class

Explore Florence Central Market
Sample local specialties
Select fresh seasonal ingredients
Attend cooking class at Towns of Italy
Make fresh pasta and Bolognese ragù
Prepare béchamel and tiramisu
Savor meal with Tuscan wines
Learn about local wine culture

The Experience

There's something about standing in a market you've never been to before, holding a basket, while someone who actually knows what they're doing points out which tomatoes to choose. That's how this cooking class in Florence starts — not in a kitchen, but in the Central Market, where the noise and color and smell of produce hit you all at once. Your chef walks you through the stalls, talks about what's in season, lets you taste things, and you start to understand why Tuscan food tastes the way it does. It's not fancy. It's just real.

Then you move to the Towns of Italy Cooking School and actually make the food. Fresh pasta from scratch — you're rolling it, cutting it, feeling how the dough changes under your hands. The Bolognese ragù that goes into the lasagna simmers while you work on the béchamel, and suddenly you're not following a recipe, you're building something. The tiramisu comes last, and by then your hands know what they're doing. A professional chef is there the whole time, correcting your grip, explaining why you do it this way instead of that way, answering the questions you didn't know you had.

After a few hours of actual work, you sit down and eat what you made. There's Tuscan wine — red with the main course, something sweeter with the tiramisu — and someone talks about how to taste wine, what you're actually noticing when you drink it. The meal tastes different when it's yours. You take home a digital recipe booklet so you can try it again, though honestly, you'll probably just book another class instead.

What’s included

Your day includes a guided tour of Florence's Central Market with the chef, where you'll sample local specialties and select fresh seasonal ingredients.
At the cooking school, you'll prepare fresh homemade pasta, slow-cooked Bolognese ragù, béchamel sauce, and classic tiramisu — all ingredients and cooking utensils provided.
You'll sit down to eat the meal you've made, paired with Tuscan wines and a dessert wine, while learning about local wine culture.
You'll receive a digital recipe booklet to recreate the dishes at home.
Vegetarian options are available upon request with advance notice.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want to understand Tuscan food by making it yourself rather than just eating it — the market stop is what connects the ingredients to the tradition, and the wine pairing is what makes the meal feel complete instead of just a class that happens to end with lunch.