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About this tour
Our Private Cooking Class with a Local in Taormina is your chance to connect with a local in their own home as they teach you the secrets to fantastic local cooking! Spend 3 hours in their kitchen, learning how to make an appetizer, a pasta dish, and a dessert. Your host will tell you everything you needed to know about the recipes you’re cooking and teach you the proper way to cook Italian style! Sit down with your host to enjoy your culinary masterpieces for lunch or dinner, enjoying a glass of wine as you do so. Our Private Cooking Class with a Local in Taormina leaves every day.
If you want to really get to the heart of what makes Italians tick, our Private Cooking Class with a Local in Taormina is for you. Italians live through their food and this is a fantastic insight into everyday Italian life. We handpick our hosts through an interview process so you know you’ll be in the very best of hands. Your host will either speak English or they will have a translator with them. They pick the recipes themselves so you will be getting a truly authentic experience.
- Sicily
- Taormina
- 3 Hour Private Guided Tour
- English and Italian
Over 20,000 travelers, 10+ years of experience and a team made up of 50+ travel experts
Private Cooking Class with a Local in Taormina Highlights
- Head to a local's home where they will teach you how to make local dishes!
- Spend 3 hours in their kitchen making a starter, main and desert
- Devour your food for lunch or dinner with your host
- Toast with a local glass of wine - salute!
Private Cooking Class with a Local in Taormina Itinerary
- Meet your local host at a centralized location in Taormina.
- Head to your host's house where they will warmly welcome you into their family home.
- Spend 3 hours in their kitchen learning how to make an appetizer, a pasta dish, and dessert from scratch.
- Your host will teach you all the secrets to their cooking, leaving you to soak up the atmosphere as you do so.
- Sit down with your host and maybe even their family for lunch or dinner, devouring your culinary masterpieces.
- Enjoy a glass of local wine and an espresso to finish.
- The tour ends at your host's home.
If you have any questions about our Private Cooking Class with a Local in Taormina, please contact us. Our team is standing by and will be happy to help
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In the media
January 2024"Travel service Tourist Italy is launching a raft of unique tours designed to help you explore Italy without the crowds and to experience Italy in a very different way. The tours take you to the regular spots, but in a way that makes them more accessible."
June 2025"The region’s been on the rise for a decade or more, but local experts say the Dolce & Gabbana show, which took place on a makeshift runway winding through the fairytale-like cottages, known as trulli, in Alberobello two years ago turbocharged curiosity. “We saw a 120% increase in booking from US clients from the region for 2024, after that,” said Ben Julius, who runs Tourist Italy. “And we already see a 50% increase on that for 2025.”
September 2025"From behind-the-scenes cultural tours to twists on classic locations, including a collection of hard-to-find experiences, Tourist Italy is the quintessential Italian tour company that knows every nook and cranny of this culturally rich European nation renowned for its ancient history, diverse and scenic landscapes, world-class art, fashion and exceptional cuisine."
June 2024"My day trip to the Tuscan countryside had been organised by Tourist Italy.
The company offers everything from packages with hotels, tours and transfers to individual tours you can book when you have made your own arrangements. After my six-hour outing in the Tuscan countryside, I arrived back in Florence, where I marvelled at the magnificent Duomo cathedral and strolled along the banks of Arno River, with its stone bridges such as the Ponte Vecchio."
June 2025This Is the Actual *Best* Time to Travel to Italy, Per a Travel Expert. Ben Julius is the founder of Tourist Italy, a travel agency specializing in custom tours, hotels and travel packages. ulius explains that early spring and late fall can often be rainy in the north, while the south (like Puglia), will typically have better weather, even if you’re not at the height of the season."
