3:00 pm| Arrival and settle into your accommodations
7:30 pm| Welcome aperitivo & dinner at Case Vecchie
9:00 am| Breakfast
9:45 am| Garden tour with Fabrizia
10:30 am| Cooking Session with Sophie: Making a starter, main and dessert starring the garden’s Autumn bounty. Learn Sophie’s foolproof savoury tart recipe that can be adapted to any season, plus recipes for dressings, crunchy things and a beautiful, easy dessert.
12:30 pm| Aperitivo and lunch
5:30 pm | Tasca d’Almerita Winery visit, followed by wine tasting and countryside walk back through the vineyards
8:00 pm| Dinner at Case Vecchie
7:45 am| Departure to visit Filippo the cheesemaker and picnic breakfast at his farm
12:30 pm| Sicilian cheese tasting followed by lunch
5:00 pm| Cooking Session with Sophie: Making a simple meal together, we’ll do a starter, main course starring the
fresh sheep cheese we have brought back from our farm visit and a fresh, light dessert.
7:30 pm| Aperitivo & dinner at Case Vecchie
9:00 am| Breakfast
10:30 am| Foraging & Cooking Session with Sophie. This morning, we’ll bring our garden bounty back to the kitchen and with it, plus locally sourced grains and breads, make three big, beautiful salads to share, plus an easy, warm sponge with seasonal fruit. The perfect menu for easy entertaining. This session will leave you with so many ideas, tips and back-pocket recipes.
12:30 pm| Aperitivo and lunch
5:30 pm| Beekeeping class and honey tasting with our gardener and beekeeper Giovanni
7:30 pm| Aperitivo & dinner at Case Vecchie
9:00 am| Breakfast
10:30 am| Cooking Session with Sophie. Today’s menu will showcase the beautiful honey we tasted with Giovanni, plus fresh green olive oil just harvested from and on the estate.
12:30 pm| Aperitivo and lunch
5:30 pm| Departure to the local olive farm and mill, tasting fresh green olive oil!
8:00 pm| Dinner at Case Vecchie
9:00 am| Breakfast
10:00 am| Goodbyes and departure
Planned activities and schedules may change at short notice due to seasonal rhythms of life in Sicily.
Accommodation
5-night stay at Case Vecchie or in one of the nearby cottages.
Shuttle Transfer
Group shuttle service from/to Roccapalumba train station, upon request.
Meals
All meals are included. Lunch and dinner are served with wines from the Tasca d’Almerita estate. Typical menus and cooking lessons feature three or four courses.
Excursions
Guided visits and local experiences as indicated in the program.
Lessons
All cooking classes and other activities specified in the course schedule.
Transportation
Private transportation to and from Case Vecchie is not included. Take a look here to know what is the best way to reach us.
Flight
Airfare is not included.
Insurance
Travel insurance must be arranged independently by participants.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate guests with celiac disease or a vegan diet due to the limited availability of specific ingredients in our rural and isolated location.
Bright, simple autumn menus to cook forever! Join Australian author and farmer Sophie Hansen for this workshop celebrating the rich abundance of autumn in Sicily.
Sophie’s food is fresh, generous and, above all, seasonal. She has written five cookbooks and is working on her sixth, plus runs a cooking school on her farm in Australia.
In this workshop, she will share menus and techniques for a lifetime of confident, seasonal cooking. Each day we’ll visit Anna Tasca Lanza’s garden to pick fresh and seasonal produce, we’ll visit the local shepherd and cheesemaker and participate in the local olive harvest.
With this abundance, we will make a new menu every day. Sophie teaches her recipes and brings together menus in a way that will inspire confidence and excitement to take these new ideas and skills home, make your own and cook forever.
Sophie is an Australian food writer and cookbook author. She lives on a farm four hours west of Sydney with her family, and for over 20 years now, she has taught, written and advocated for a way of cooking that is always, always driven by the season. As a farmer and food writer, she writes about, teaches, and celebrates the produce and producer as the star of every meal, and her food is relaxed, colourful and delicious.
She is currently writing her sixth cookbook, co-hosts a podcast about cooking and reading (Something to Eat and Something to Read), writes a weekly newsletter called What Should I Cook this Weekend and above all, she believes in simple, tasty and seasonal food made with love and shared generously.
The majority of the website showcases the beautiful photography of Anne Embrun. Other photos are done by the Anna Tasca Lanza team and staff.
The visual identity and website were designed by StudioForward.