Weekend Classes at the Awaiting Table Italian Cooking School

Begins on Friday afternoon and run until Monday morning. For those students arriving from Rome, we’ll meet you at the Lecce train station under the clock on Platform One at 14:08, the arrival time from Rome. We’ll check you into your apartment, give you a chance to freshen up and then collect you for a late lunch at the school, prepared by us. We’ll give you some down time in the late afternoon and then come together to prepare dinner together.

On Saturday we’ll meet you under the statue of Sant’Oranzo and have coffee together at Gracious Antonio’s. We’ll head for the market to meet the vendors, students and staff engaging in discussions on the local produce, products and cooking methods. We’ll head back to the school to make fresh pasta, both for lunch and dinner. We’ll prepare lunch together, the students cooking, guided by the staff. We’ll have lunch in the garden, weather permitting, then break for a siesta, coming back together in the late afternoon. We’ll meet under the statue again, taking a walk around town, taking in the architecture that has made Lecce so famous. We’ll return to the stable kitchen and prepare a great dinner together, going late into the evening.

Sunday we’ll start late, giving you some of the morning to customize to fit your individual needs. We’ll have one of those famous Italian Sunday lunches, with all the courses, just as it is consumed all up and down the peninsula. We’ll give you a break, then come back together to create a great send up dinner. We’ll open some special wine, decorate the school with a hundred candles and do our best to see that your head hurts on Monday morning. We’ll drop you at the station on Monday, ready to head to your next destination.

For students flying into Brindisi.
What with the VERY cheap flights into the area from London or other destinations throughout continental Europe ( FAQ ), we also have many of our weekend students arrive via nearby Brindisi. If you are flying into Brindisi, please contact us and we will make arrangements with you.

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