Rome: Traditional Cooking Class in the Jewish Ghetto

Take your authentic roman-style pasta or gnocchi cooking class in the Jewish district of Rome seen in the Stanley Tucci’s show. Take a break from visiting the city by meeting local people and learning how to make a typical Roman dinner menu from scratch. Meet your host in the heart of the Jewish Ghetto. Enjoy the easy-going happy lifestyle, which the Ghetto is famous for. Head to the restaurant and meet the Chef ready for you to reveal secrets and recipes. This is a hands-on class, but if you’d just like to be a spectator you can relax, watching the chef working, with a glass of wine. You’ll learn to make home-made pasta from scratch, cleaning and preparing seasonal vegetables to fry and tasting dessert that all roman grandmas used to cook for local kids. Season menu is the key for a good cooking class. Learning history and legend around the Jewish district and its unique food style. Let’s put our hands in the dough. Start your cooking class learning how to make fresh pasta from scratch. Using our grandmas’style you will be able to make it again when back home. Seasonal food is a must in Rome, in the winter class, you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to peel artichokes to be cooked at the Jewish Style, one of the highlights of Roman cuisine. In the Summer’s class, you’ll learn how to prepare zucchini flowers or any other amazing fresh vegetable to make the original “fritto romano”. In the end taste the amazing torta di ricotta e visciola, the famous ricotta cheesecake made with simple and delicious ingredients. Book your pasta cooking class if you look for an authentic and crazy experience in the jewish ditrict. The experience is suitable to everyone, kids, vegan people, vegetarians are welcome. The style is authenic and easy-going. Do not expect a scholar class, but nice time together with local people, learning how to cook the dishes of the tradition. The pasta made in the class is not gluten-free, anyway if you can touch flour with no problem, you can join the class then eating gluten free pasta (packaged). The restaurant is not kosher.