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Article: TASTY TUSCANY! Two chefs, one rustic villa and the freshest of ingredients is the recipe for a delicious Italian holiday ...(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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Byline: by Patrick Powell
WE ALL agreed that the minestrone with homemade focaccia, followed by fillet of beef on a bed of porcini mushroom risotto and spinach and rounded off with a rosemary-flavoured Tuscan chestnut cake was a bit special -- not least because I and six fellow guests had made it ourselves.
There are more than 500 cookery schools in Tuscany to choose from, offering everything from one-day courses to those lasting four to five days.
But I'd struck gold, spending a week at the Rhode School of Cuisine in the glorious Villa Lucia in Vorno, a former hunting lodge about 12 miles north east of Pisa.
Our teachers Gavin and ...