Cooking Class with Lidia YoungGrandma in Jewish area

About this tour

Learn to make Roman pasta and dessert from Lidia, a local cook steeped in the city's culinary traditions. This three-hour class happens in Rome's Jewish quarter with just six participants, so you'll get proper attention and swap stories whilst cooking. You'll hand-roll fresh fettuccine and tagliolini, build carbonara and black pepper sauces from the ground up, assemble tiramisù, and taste everything alongside aperitivo and wine.

Highlights

• Hand-roll fettuccine and tagliolini from scratch with Lidia
• Make carbonara sauce and black pepper pasta the Roman way
• Build and taste homemade tiramisù
• Sip aperitivo and Italian wine throughout
• Small group of six in Rome's historic Jewish neighbourhood
• Stories and cooking techniques passed through Lidia's family

What to expect

You'll arrive in a residential kitchen tucked into a characterful corner of central Rome. Lidia will walk you through each dish step by step—mixing dough, kneading, rolling and cutting by hand. There's no standing around; everyone cooks alongside her. Expect flour under your fingernails, a rhythm of conversation, and the smell of butter and cheese filling the room. Midway through you'll taste what you've made with wine and nibbles. The final hour shifts to dessert, layering and chilling tiramisù whilst you sip and chat.

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