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Book Valentina for cookery events in your home or at work

We can organise fun and enjoyable events for your corporate or family/friends groups almost anywhere!

Hands-on cookery, either competitively or as entertainment, is an excellent team building exercise – and it can be rounded off with the food you have created matched with delicious wines.

We can also hold culinary quizzes or tasting sessions to add even more fun to your event. Please contact us using the online form or call +44 (0)781 806 4157 to discuss your requirements.

Within the UK, we can organise any of the following for individuals, small groups of friends, work colleagues or family parties:

  • One to one cookery tuition.
  • Small private groups – ½ day or full day hands-on cookery classes for keen foodies with Valentina – minimum 6 people.
  • Tutored market tours – Tours of some of London’s best food markets with Valentina, followed by return to the kitchen to cook up our purchases
  • Valentina live in your kitchen – Valentina can come to your home and teach you to cook a meal for your friends and family – hands-on or demonstration available.
  • London locations We have access to several different London locations for your event.
  • Essex locations We can also head for the countryside and use locations in Ramsden Heath or Danbury – minimum group size 8.
  • Inter-active dinner parties in your own home – a dinner party idea with a difference
  • Wine and food matching lunches or dinners in your own home or at one of our London locations.

PRICES

From £75 per person for groups of eight or more with Valentina

For one to one cookery classes please contact us.

BOOK VALENTINA FOR PRIVATE COURSES OR FIND HER AT EVENTS

Upcoming cookery classes and events with Valentina Harris

Upcoming cookery classes and events with Valentina Harris

Learn with Valentina at restaurants and cookery schools such as Cucina Caldesi, Divertimenti, The Smart School of Cookery, Taste Italia and The Bertinet Kitchen.

Wine and food matching lunches and dinners

Wine and food matching lunches and dinners

Valentina teaches you how to make pasta from scratch, plus risotto and original genuine Italian fish and meat dishes, all combined with fine boutique wines.

AND DON’T FORGET THESE FABULOUS COOKERY BREAKS

La Monteduccia, Le Marche, Italy

La Monteduccia, Le Marche, Italy

Join Valentina at this private hilltop house to unwind and relax while preparing some of the most delicious food the region has to offer. Non-cooking friends are welcome too.

Cookery courses in Italy

Cookery courses in Italy

Culinary adventures in Le Marche, Perugia and Umbria.

Cookery courses in France

Cookery courses in France

Gastronomy in the French Alps.

Welcome back Summer?!

This June is a busy month, with new classes happening here in the UK. As well as my usual regular classes at La Cucina Caldesi in Marylebone, Divertimenti in Knightsbridge and The Bertinet Kitchen in Bath, this month I am also teaching a new class here in Sussex in the gorgeous kitchen of Miranda Gore Browne on June 25th, and my first class at The School of Artisan Food on June 20th.

I must say, am not overly impressed with this weather, it seems unseasonably cold to me, and reminds me rather of my impression of England when I used to visit every summer as a child from Italy – I was always surprised at how many layers I had to wear!
So I am really looking forward to being back in Italy later this year for the cookery holidays in both Le Marche and Lake Como. And in between I shall be sneaking off to Italy for a little recce to explore a possible new cookery school venture for 2016, and of course there is my wonderful annual holiday in unspoilt, very hot Calabria to look forward to.

Meanwhile, there are still some spaces available for September and October in both locations, La Monteduccia and Il Palazzo del Vicere, so please do book your place soon to avoid disappointment! Participants at any of my UK classes are eligible for a substantial discount of £200 on courses in Le Marche, just let us know when you book that you have attended a course at any of the UK classes and voilà!

In other news, this month’s Les Dames D’Escoffier gathering is taking place at Jenius Social http://www.jeniussocial.co.uk/ Les Dames have all sorts of plans, including the planning of a repeat of our very successful Edible London event next May, where we invite Dames from the USA to come and experience the gastronomic delights of London and environs through our tastebuds!

It is of course full-on strawberry season, so this month’s recipe - Tiramisu Alla Frutta - is all about celebrating English strawberries and one of Italy’s most iconic desserts, the wickedly delicious Tiramisu! This is not really to be considered a classic dessert, as it officially only became a dessert with a proper recipe in the 1980’s, having previously been the kind of cure-all prepared for ailing sons of all ages by Italian Mammas from all over Italy; a sort of rich and creamy version of Chicken Soup as a way of improving both mood and health!

I hope very much that I shall welcome you to our lovely foodie house party at La Monteduccia or to the luxury of Lake Como in September or October; I have such wonderful treats in store for you! And of course, should you need my services to help with your dinner party or special event, please do just ask.

Meanwhile, here’s hoping it gets warmer soon in dear old Blighty, and I wish you all happy cooking and of course, Buon Appetito!

Valentina
 
PS To book a place on any of my UK classes, and to take advantage of the £200 discount on any of the courses at La Monteduccia this year, please check out:
http://caldesi.com/
http://www.mirandagorebrowne.typepad.com/
http://www.schoolofartisanfood.org/
http://www.thebertinetkitchen.com/

Valentina Harris is a noted chef, speaker, author and authority on Italian food and food culture. Find out more

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