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Cooking class on pesto and cheese focaccia

Duration
3 hours
Guests
Maximum 6 guests
Location
Genoa, old town
Languages
IT · EN
Shared experience

Welcome into the house, in the heart of old Genoa, a short walk from the Palazzi dei Rolli and the largest historic centre in Europe. Here you learn to make Genoese PDO pesto with traditional mortars and, after tasting the fresh pesto on Genoese focaccia, you roll the pasta matta for Recco cheese focaccia, a specialty known worldwide, with all the techniques you need to make it again at home.

What we will cook together

  • Genoese PDO basil pesto

    Made with traditional mortars

  • Genoese focaccia

    Eaten warm with the pesto you just made

  • Recco cheese focaccia

    Two paper-thin sheets of pasta matta and cheese that stretches

Where it takes place

A typical Genoese home in a creuza de ma, near the Palazzi dei Rolli, where the cooking blends Ligurian, Venetian and Calabrian traditions.

Good to know

  • Giulio Cesare the cat lives in the house
  • The exact address is shared after booking
  • Free cancellation

€124 per person

Children €62

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The amount is the participation fee for the activity of the Delicious Liguria Association.

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