Under the careful guidance of your local English-speaking chef, you will prepare an entire meal with fresh and flavorful seafood and fish during your hands-on cooking class in Florence. Using local recipes, that are especially important on Friday and Lent for this Catholic country, you will learn to select, clean, and prepare traditional Tuscan seafood and fish-based dishes and specialties.
Although Florence doesn’t boast a seaside location, seafood and fish has always played a beloved role in Florentine culinary traditions. Under your English-speaking chef’s expert guidance, you’ll learn the secrets of how to recognize the freshest seafood, how to properly and masterfully clean fresh fish, and perhaps most importantly, how to cook these wonderful ingredients using simple, straight-forward methods guaranteed to produce a delectable end result. You will get to make wonderful local dishes such as Florentine-style salted cod and squid with local greens which is a classic Florentine dishes prepared for decades by home chefs and sophisticated restaurant kitchens. While preparing this recipe, your chef will recount Florence’s historic love for Baccalà (salted cod). Anyone raised in Florence can conjure up a memory from their youth of a visit to their local delicatessen where they gazed in awe at the tall metal container filled with white cod fillets and salted water. This fish, brined in sea salt to preserve its delicate flavor, is still the basis of many a Friday lunch in Florentine homes today. Baccalà is actually a fillet of fresh cod preserved and dried with a heavy coating of sea salt. To cook and prepare this fish, the cod needs to be soaked in a fresh water bath for 24-48 hours to remove the salt brine. Florence offers its most commonly prepared version; Baccalà Florentine-style, as one of the most classic fish dishes on any menu.
Other classic ingredients used in Florentine fish and seafood recipes include: squid, trout, frogs, eels, and black squid ink. Your chef will guide you through the preparation of several additional dishes resulting in your expanded knowledge of how to prepare fresh fish and seafood in a classic, straightforward manner. During your class, each participant will get to participate hands-on through every step so they are sure to be able to repeat the dish at home with confidence. Amaze and surprise your friends and family with these unique, delectable dishes straight from the heart of Italy’s most beloved food and wine region of Tuscany.
Although Florence doesn’t boast a seaside location, seafood and fish has always played a beloved role in Florentine culinary traditions. Under your English-speaking chef’s expert guidance, you’ll learn the secrets of how to recognize the freshest seafood, how to properly and masterfully clean fresh fish, and perhaps most importantly, how to cook these wonderful ingredients using simple, straight-forward methods guaranteed to produce a delectable end result. You will get to make wonderful local dishes such as Florentine-style salted cod and squid with local greens which is a classic Florentine dishes prepared for decades by home chefs and sophisticated restaurant kitchens. While preparing this recipe, your chef will recount Florence’s historic love for Baccalà (salted cod). Anyone raised in Florence can conjure up a memory from their youth of a visit to their local delicatessen where they gazed in awe at the tall metal container filled with white cod fillets and salted water. This fish, brined in sea salt to preserve its delicate flavor, is still the basis of many a Friday lunch in Florentine homes today. Baccalà is actually a fillet of fresh cod preserved and dried with a heavy coating of sea salt. To cook and prepare this fish, the cod needs to be soaked in a fresh water bath for 24-48 hours to remove the salt brine. Florence offers its most commonly prepared version; Baccalà Florentine-style, as one of the most classic fish dishes on any menu.
Other classic ingredients used in Florentine fish and seafood recipes include: squid, trout, frogs, eels, and black squid ink. Your chef will guide you through the preparation of several additional dishes resulting in your expanded knowledge of how to prepare fresh fish and seafood in a classic, straightforward manner. During your class, each participant will get to participate hands-on through every step so they are sure to be able to repeat the dish at home with confidence. Amaze and surprise your friends and family with these unique, delectable dishes straight from the heart of Italy’s most beloved food and wine region of Tuscany.
