Funny, easy to organize and … useful are the traditional Piedmontese cooking lessons at home. One of the local cooks can come to our large kitchen and prepare the famous ‘ravioli al plin’ or ‘tajarin’ together with the guests: ours are informal and ‘chat’ lessons in which the cook prepares the dishes with the guests, telling ancient wisdom and revealing some tricks of the trade.
Equally fun are the lessons for learning to make pizza and cooking it in a wood oven.
The lessons also become the basis for a dinner or lunch for the guest groups, and they can also be activities to do with the children, who usually have a great time getting their hands on pasta …
Another fun activity: organizing a wine tasting at home , inviting one of the owners of one of the friendly wineries … often paired with an oenologist or sommelier, the winemaker leads guests to discover the specifics of great wines Piedmontese with team games with which you learn to distinguish Barolo from Barbera, to understand the difference between a wine aged in steel silos or oak barrels …
