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Pasta Class at Sfoglia Re with a Michelin-Trained Chef

The people teaching here have worked in Michelin kitchens, and it shows in what the class is about: not the recipe, which anyone can look up, but the technique and the judgement behind it. The class happens inside the restaurant Sfoglia Re on Piazza Ghiberti, and it is deliberately small, so the chef stands next to each person rather than lecturing the room. That is what you are paying for. You make gourmet pasta dishes from the beginning, with ingredients bought locally and chosen for the day. The chef gives away the things that are hard to find written down: how the dough should feel, when to stop working it, what to do when it is wrong. Tuscan wine runs through the session, reds and whites picked to go with what you have just made, so each dish gets tasted the way it is meant to be. Three hours, up to thirteen people, in English or Italian. Everything you cook becomes lunch or dinner. You keep the apron, and the recipes arrive as an e-book afterwards.