Mamma Maria's roman kitchen - Italian cooking course in Rome

Italian cooking course in
Mamma Maria's roman kitchen

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Spice up your stay in Rome with a cooking course in beautiful Nemi!

My cooking skills have I learned above all by my mother-in-law, Nonna Lidia, who learned from her mother. They were seven children and she got up early every morning to prepare and cook the food for the whole family. The childrens favorite dish was "Abbacchio Scappato" ("Run away lamb"), an ovensafe plate filled with vegetables in a delicious mixture of potato wedges, peppers, onions, eggplant and rosemary... But where is the lamb, then? "It has run away", said the mother. There were bad times so they had to cook good meals from what was available.

That is the finesse of Italian cuisine – simple but very tasty! Come to my cooking course and learn the tricks of the Italian cuisine!

Me and my family had a restaurant where I cooked for hungry Romans who come here to Nemi during the weekend and they did not realize it was a Swedish woman in the kitchen and how she had managed to learn to cook like a true Roman housewife!

We have our own production of wine and olive oil in the valley. We let the wine mature in the ancient caves of lapillo-stone where the temperature is the same all year round. In the winery I also grow all my vegetables, which I also conserve for the winter needs. I make pesto, sott'oli (vegetables preserved in olive oil), tomato sauce and jam of all our fruits, figs, peaches, kiwi, prickly pear, citrus fruits, etc. Even the winter down here gives us a lot of good vegetables, such as broccoli, broccoletti and fennel – the food I cook is therefor seasonal.

Why not spice up your stay in Rome with a day out in the country – we cook, either in my country kitchen or down in the vineyard right next to the Goddess Diana's temple. In my country kitchen I can receive 2–8 persons, with larger groups we might also stay in the vineyard, all depending on the weather.

Nemi is in itself worth the trip! An idyllic medieval village with many attractions, including Museo dei Navi Romani – Caligula's stately ship, and Diana's temple, where women went in the ancient world for help with fertility and childbirth.

Would you like to stay a day and enjoy the beautiful scenery and perhaps take a dip in the fabled crater lake, we also have a B & B.

Nemi is located about 30 km from the center of Rome, in the Castelli Romani area. Nemi is to be reached by train or bus.