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Fresh Pasta & Ragu

Live from: 

Italy

Difficulty: 

Beginner to Advanced

Class Duration: 

2 to 2-1/2 hours

Language: 

Italian, English

FRESH PASTA & RAGU

Italy

Beginner to Advanced

2 to 2-1/2 hours

Italian

Italy

Master one of the world's most delicious dishes, Fresh Pasta and Bolognese Sauce, with a chef video calling you live from Italy

Sunday is easily our favorite day of the week. It's not even a contest, really. Sunday is for rolling out of bed, lazily pouring a coffee while we toil away on the couch thinking about that days cooking project that we dreamt of during the week. We're food geeks afterall and our dreams, most literally, are about food. This cooking class is perhaps one of the most aspirational of all Sunday cooking projects. This experience will transform your Sunday suppers and transport you to the winding streets of Italy.  Homemade pasta, Pomodoro and Bolognese is what lazy Sundays are meant for. 


Italian food is loved world over and this class includes the favorites of the list. In this pasta-making class, you will be joined by one of our chefs, live from Italy. Together you'll learn the tips and tricks to making a perfect pasta dough. While it's resting, you'll move on to your sauces. Starting with a pomodoro sauce, you'll learn the simple technique to what will replace any store-bought sauce in the future. You'll then use some of your Pomodoro to create your Bolognese. Bolognese, a treasure of Italian sauces, is named for the region where it originated, the beautiful city of Bologna. In this cooking class, your chef will teach you the traditional way of making a true Italian "meat sauce" filled with aromatics.


In this Italian culinary class, you'll find pasta making in your own kitchen an easy Sunday task. Your Sunday Sauce will take on a whole new meaning, and your private chef experience will create memories that keep you longing for more.  Come with us, let's go to Italy.



*Note, the Fresh Pasta & Ragu course is a class you'll never forget. Please know, this class uses a rolling pin to teach you the traditional way Nonnas make pasta across Italy.  Be ready to use your muscles! If you're looking to use a pasta-maker we recommend the Ravioli class.

20 minute Kitchen Prep Session with a Personal Kitchen Assistant who will get you ready! Includes teaching about ingredients and answering any questions you have as you get ready for your private cooking experience

2-1/2 hour Private Cooking Class via Skype with a highly accomplished global chef who lives where the recipe originated. Perfect for stay home date nights!

Personalized step-by-step coaching, tips, culinary tricks, sharing of stories, and more

A fantastic multi-course meal, 100% authentic and enjoyed as if you travelled to your chef's country!

Music Playlists featuring artists from the chef's country to get ready for your experience

Cocktail Recipes and Suggested Pairings

Recipe Booklet to recreate your dishes again and again!

The Chef & The Dish Certified Tested Class

What You Get

**Classes make a hearty meal for up to four people to enjoy.  If you have a larger group eating, please know, additional fees may apply.  Please message us in advance of booking to ensure you have an amazing experience.

Meet The Chef

Chef Carlotta

Chef Carlotta

Bari, Italy

Michelin star restaurant chef having worked for Michelin restaurants in over 5 cities, graduated top of class from ALMA University

Chef Carlotta Martinelli lives in the south of Italy in the town of Bari. She began cooking at a young age with her nonna and fell in love with the rich traditions of pasta-making on the streets of her historic town. Since then, she graduated top of her class from what's consider the world's most prestigious Italian culinary university - ALMA, the International School of Italian Cuisine located in Parma, Italy. 

This whiz-kid, went on to work for several Michelin Star chefs in Rimini, Padua, Milan, Rome, London - and her native region, Puglia. She was most recently responsible for all seafood at the famed Due Camini. After 4 years of working towards the prized Michelin Star, they won it in 2018. 

Carlotta believes food is a passport of which, you can travel the world. She's excited to bring you to her hometown of Bari, Italy in her cooking classes with The Chef & The Dish.

Cooking Class Menu

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PRIVATE CLASS

*The base price of most classes is $369 which allows 2 participants in the same kitchen. Each additional person in your kitchen thereafter is an additional $50 USD. So, a class of 4 is actually only $117.25 USD per person! Please know, a $50 USD surcharge will apply if you’d like to add a second kitchen. Looking for group classes? Explore here.

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From $149/pp USD*

My husband bought me the Ravioli class for my birthday in September so I thought it would be fun for us to do the class on his birthday today! From the moment Carlotta came on the screen we knew we were in good hands! She was organized, laid back, encouraging and so much fun to cook with. My husband and I took the class seriously because we love to cook and really wanted to learn. Everything came out incredible! So much so that my mother and brother came over after and we tau… See More

Sophia Anna

What an amazing experience! Through a little online research, I found The Chef and The Dish for my foodie husband’s 50th birthday. There are so many delicious courses offered. He decided on the pasta making class with Ravioli and Tortellini. The first step was a prep class the weekend before with the Kitchen Assistant. She went over the ingredient list, tools needed, made sure our Skype was working, and asked a lot of questions about our background… See More

Laurie McRae Pearce

The Chef & The Dish fell nothing short of phenomenal. Such a personal and authentic experience! Chef Carlotta, our lovely guide, showed us around Naples in such a beautiful way! We couldn’t have asked for a better teacher. The food was outstanding, as was the wine and the company. Absolutely recommend this for anyone who loves good food and having fun in the kitchen. It made us beginners feel like total professionals. We will keep this with us forever!

Riley Dandy

The Chef & The Dish was a birthday gift from my wife and we had a blast cooking with Chef Carlotta. She was excellent and laughed along with us as we navigated the journey of making homemade ravioli. She helped us troubleshoot our pasta roller, was patient, and is overall a great teacher. We were very happy with our experience and the food was amazing. We learned two sauces, two fillings, and two types of pasta. Well worth our time. It was a very unique birthday and one we won't forget.

Diane M. Ross

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