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Cheese-making in Cugusi
Cugusi is an area around Pienza that is famous for its Pecorino cheese. Its vast open landscapes are perfect for the grazing sheep and mean the area offers some of the best Pecorino you’ll find in Tuscany. It is possible to visit the cheese-making process at the Cugusi Dairy and taste the different varieties. On my visit here, I stocked up on some of Italy’s finest cheese, while the children learnt how sheep’s cheese is made and met the animals – they loved it!
www.caseificiocugusi.it
Ice cream-making in Castellina
The best ice cream I have tasted is at the Antica Delizia Ice Cream Parlour in Castellina in Chianti. Simone is the ice cream chef there and we have been loyal customers since he opened in 1997. I asked him one day if he could show my children how he makes the ice cream - the kids had a great time and my youngest wants to be an ice cream taster when he grows up! Simone welcomes children to explore with him the mysteries of ice cream making in his store in Castellina. Bookings are required.
www.anticadelizia.it
Cooking classes in Florence
We have known Simmonetta since we arrived in Tuscany and I think her Tosca Mia cooking school is the best place in the Chianti for a family cooking course. There are low tables for the children to prepare food so they can learn how to make pasta and it is great watching the kids eat their own food at the end of the day – smiles all round!
www.welcometuscany.com/en/courses/chianti/family.php
Cugusi is an area around Pienza that is famous for its Pecorino cheese. Its vast open landscapes are perfect for the grazing sheep and mean the area offers some of the best Pecorino you’ll find in Tuscany. It is possible to visit the cheese-making process at the Cugusi Dairy and taste the different varieties. On my visit here, I stocked up on some of Italy’s finest cheese, while the children learnt how sheep’s cheese is made and met the animals – they loved it!
www.caseificiocugusi.it
Ice cream-making in Castellina
The best ice cream I have tasted is at the Antica Delizia Ice Cream Parlour in Castellina in Chianti. Simone is the ice cream chef there and we have been loyal customers since he opened in 1997. I asked him one day if he could show my children how he makes the ice cream - the kids had a great time and my youngest wants to be an ice cream taster when he grows up! Simone welcomes children to explore with him the mysteries of ice cream making in his store in Castellina. Bookings are required.
www.anticadelizia.it
Cooking classes in Florence
We have known Simmonetta since we arrived in Tuscany and I think her Tosca Mia cooking school is the best place in the Chianti for a family cooking course. There are low tables for the children to prepare food so they can learn how to make pasta and it is great watching the kids eat their own food at the end of the day – smiles all round!
www.welcometuscany.com/en/courses/chianti/family.php
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Our accommodation, which cost less than £800 for the week, is in a converted stone farmhouse next to a 12th Century Franciscan chapel. There is a pergola shaded by vines round the back here we quickly settle into a rhythm of eating long pasta suppers while the shadows lengthen.
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