MaMa Florence Guided Market Tour and 4 Course-Pasta Cooking Class

About this tour

Start your morning navigating Florence's central market with a local guide, spotting seasonal produce, artisanal cheeses and cured meats from surrounding farms. Then head to MaMa Florence's kitchen for a four-hour pasta workshop where you'll knead, roll and shape ravioli and tagliatelle by hand, craft sauces from scratch, and sit down to eat everything you've made alongside Prosecco and Italian wine.

Highlights

• Walk Florence's central market with English-speaking local guide
• Handle fresh Tuscan ingredients sourced from regional producers
• Knead, roll and cut pasta shapes including ravioli and tagliatelle
• Prepare appetiser, three pasta dishes with sauces, and dessert
• Sit down to full four-course meal with wine and Prosecco
• Learn sauce techniques from experienced cooking school chef

What to expect

Your guide meets you at the market early on, pointing out what growers have brought in that week and explaining how locals shop for dinner. You'll wander the stalls, absorbing the energy and picking up on the rhythm of Florentine food culture. After an hour or so, you'll move to the cooking school kitchen where the chef demonstrates pasta dough technique, then you get your hands dirty—literally—rolling out sheets and cutting shapes. Expect flour everywhere and a fair bit of trial-and-error shaping. Once your pasta is done, you'll focus on sauce-building whilst others finish up. The final stretch is sitting down together, tasting everything you've made with proper plating and service.

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