CONTACT INFORMATION:
Buongiorno, Hello! To schedule a cooking lesson with Taste of Italy, please send an email to [info at taste-of-italy dot com]. The email address should look like this when you type it into your email program:
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is through email which I check more often than I
should! Please do not write me via my social media accounts (I do not
check my social media often enough) or call me as I do not answer the telephone while
teaching.
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ABOUT:
Maribel, founder
I have been interested in
food and its preparation for as long as I can remember. As a small child I
would follow my nonna as she moved about in her large kitchen
and would get on my tiptoes hoping to get a glimpse of what was on the stove
while my grandmother stirred away. I tasted many sauces with her and although I
was too young to ask for a recipe or even think to write one down, I am the
only one in my family who can recreate many of her famous dishes.I have spent a lot of time in the kitchen with many local Azdore* learning their tricks and secrets as well as plenty of mamma's and nonna's, asking for recipes of their best dishes. I have re-created these dishes successfully and most are now part of my collection of “heirloom recipes”.
I learned how to make pasta from scratch from several sfogline, each with their own technique. I've taken what I hope is the best of each sfoglina and developed my own technique so that my students can make their own pasta successfully after only one lesson.
Taste of Italy offers a wide range of authentic Italian cooking lessons that cover regional, traditional and creative cooking at affordable prices with experienced cooks.
Buon appetito!
Maribel
*Azdore, Zdaura or Rezdore: different ways of pronouncing the term used in Emilia-Romagna to indicate the woman who keeps the house running, or holds up the house. Literally regge la casa. You have to think that today, this woman would be defined a manager, managing people, coordinating what needs to be butchered, fixed or cleaned around the house and farm fixed or done, cooks, makes pasta from scratch, makes butter, makes jam, bread, insomma she keeps the house running smoothly!
Maribel
*Azdore, Zdaura or Rezdore: different ways of pronouncing the term used in Emilia-Romagna to indicate the woman who keeps the house running, or holds up the house. Literally regge la casa. You have to think that today, this woman would be defined a manager, managing people, coordinating what needs to be butchered, fixed or cleaned around the house and farm fixed or done, cooks, makes pasta from scratch, makes butter, makes jam, bread, insomma she keeps the house running smoothly!
