Toscana Saporita Cookery School

Kind words - some feedback from previous guests

"The cooking school director, Sandra is outstanding. You could not ask for someone more dedicated."

"When I got home I bought pasta rollers, and several ravioli cutters. I’ve made the farro salad (the one from the cover of Bon Appetit that you taught us) and roasted a turkey breast with our new secret spices I bought on our field trip to Chianti. I feel like a whole new world has opened up for me thanks to you and your wonderful staff."

"I’ve spent a week at Le Cordon Bleu in France and a week at Toscana Saporita in Italy. I have to say I learned more in Italy and had twice as much fun! Of course, once you educated us to the simple fact that the Italians taught the French to cook I realized I should have come to you first! Toscana Saporita is my Tuscan Cooking School and Farmhouse fantasy come true. When I tell my friends that we would cook all morning and then have a two-hour lunch – drinking local wine whilst sitting at a table under a chestnut tree in the middle of an olive grove on the grounds of a historic estate – they think I’m making it all up. Then I show them the pictures!"

"Dear Sandra, I just wanted to tell you that last night I had a dinner party and made your wonderful herbed chickens and the semolina gnocchi (it was yummy by the way), and I thought about you and all and what a wonderful time we had there with you. Somehow it is always nicer to remember the flavors under the big chestnut tree but it did bring back so many sweet memories and I wanted to thank you again."

"Thank you for the wonderful week of cooking, sharing, learning and laughing. You, your wonderful chef colleagues, Elena & Mona Lisa made our week one that we will always remember. The setting at Camporomano is just perfect. Now that we are alumni of the best cooking school in Italy, we will proudly share our knowledge with friends and family here at home."

"I wanted a country experience and a chance to meet some Italians. And we did. It was like a dream come true. The daily tours are very casual and informative, as well as off the beaten track. We rarely saw other tourists. The guides are still my friends. The cooking school director, Sandra is outstanding. You could not ask for someone more dedicated. You will not be sorry. I actually went with my grown adult daughter and we enjoyed the total experience so much that I took my husband back another time and ‘he who did not want to go’ has never stopped talking about ‘how great it was’."