Italian Cooking School Tours

Come with Mama Margaret & Friends and treasure the wonderful Italian families and friends that will welcome you: cooks in kitchens in their homes or chefs in their restaurants in your cooking lessons, farmers around their tables, wine makers in their cellars, olive oil producers under their trees, truffle hunters in the forest.

We put more "Mama" in your Italy

Unlike most Italian cooking school tours where you learn cooking with one chef in one kitchen in one place, most Mama Margaret & Friends' tours give you cooking lessons with three or four chefs in the same tour, from families on their farms to chefs in their restaurants.

You get to know an amazing variety of local people and experience more kitchens and homes. Excursions take you from dining with Piedmontese cheese makers to visiting a Sicilian wine producer family. You experience genuine Italian life with a long list of local friends and discover places off the beaten track.

Your Italian friends will share precious traditions, pieces of their lives, laughter, extraordinary local food delicacies, guarded secrets and recipes passed from generation to generation.

Put yourself in the practiced hands of Mama Margaret & Friends, in business since 1995, and explore the Italy that is a succulent palette of lusty flavors, romance, warm local Italian friends and culture.

Your Italian cooking school tour experience will be seamless, as you travel in comfort with a small, intimate group led by gifted, passionate hosts. All you have to do is open your heart and your mouth to our Italy, a sweet dream that will keep returning for the rest of your life.

Choose from a remarkable array of Italian cooking school tours to satisfy you on a deeper level, as you plunge your hands into pillowy mounds of dough, that provide a real catharsis from the rigors of your everyday life.

David Rocco's Dolce Vita cook book: the whole book carries me back to Italy, my “second country”.  Mama Margaret's Review