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Pesto & Focaccia

Live from: 

Italy

Difficulty: 

Beginner to Advanced

Class Duration: 

2 to 2-1/2 hours

Language: 

Italian, English

PESTO & FOCACCIA

Italy

Beginner to Advanced

2 to 2-1/2 hours

Italian

Italy

Virtually travel to the region of Liguria to master Pesto alla Genovese and Focaccia in a private cooking class with a chef, live from Italy

Learn how to master the emerald tresures from the Liguria region of Italy. This stunning coastline is home to the five colorful fishing villages of Cinque Terre. In each of the villages, you will find quaint shops, winding streets and smell the freshness and briney sea air.  


In this vegetarian cooking class, you'll learn how to make three Ligurean classics. First, you'll start your class with dough making. This simple but oh-so-delightful dough will create two masterpieces - traditional focaccia that you often think about - crunchy, crispy but soft and salty bread. And the second... the legendary Focaccia di Recco. Little known outside Italy, this thin cheese stuffed focaccia will be a new favorite.


While your focaccia is becoming magic, you'll move on to your Pesto Genovese. Fresh, bright and herbaceous - pesto genovese is the flavor of summer. This pesto, we have heard from a huge group of clients, is the best pesto you will have ever tasted. This green treasure will be the base sauce for your Pesto Pasta Genovese, the typical Ligurian dish found on nearly every restaurant menu in the region. Trofie shaped pasta nestled with potato and green beans makes for the perfect canvas for your emerald beauty to shine. 


This fully private virtual cooking experience is perfect for anyone looking to use the bounty of their garden or make classic vegetarian Italian dishes in their own kitchen.  Enjoy the private coaching with a chef, joining you live from Italy. Share stories, learn some Italian, get private coaching and perfect your bread-making in this cooking class that will forever be in your favorite memories. 

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

We had such a fun and engaging experience making ravioli and tortellini with Chef Carlotta this weekend. She was amazing - instructive, clear, fun and it was a riot to be taking directions in my own kitchen! The recipes were great and the pasta turned out so delicious we wanted to eat it all up at once! We had so many laughs and it was truly a memorable way to spend a Sunday. Delicious! Thanks for such a fun time !!!

Val Raziano

An absolutely wonderful experience! Our daughter gave us a gift certificate for a session with The Chef & The Dish and we chose an Italian Cuisine with Chef Carlotta. She was a delight with the ability to share her expertise and love of cooking while making our time with her informative, so enjoyable and inspiring for my husband and myself. This Was a great gift for us and I recommend The Chef & The Dish to everyone.

Shirleen Sturtz

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