jo Nicol told us about the cooking class she had done when she was in Florence. Sounds good, we thought. And it was. We chose pizza and gelato partly to get the low down on a decent base, partly to support my campaign for a halladale road ice cream machine, and partly because G wasn't keen to spend a whole day at school - and this one started at 6pm.
That meant we had plenty of time to (a) do our washing (previous post), (b) check out David at the Accademia - very impressive, not too many people - don't know how we managed that - no photos allowed, (c) have another nice lunch - pics already posted of caprese and ravioli - and (d) have a nap. With all of those items ticked off it was time to meet up at Florencetown HQ.
Clearly the first part was not going to be great - a bunch of strangers hangs around waiting for the beginning and G and S regret involvement in this group activity not of our own devising. Anyhoo... finally we were underway and off we trotted through the streets of Florence, following our chef to the kitchen.
The walk was good as we found a couple of new places to check out later. The group included a family with a toddler (girl in pushchair) and two unruly primary school-aged boys. Watch out, we thought. But, they were great. As soon as we left the boys stopped being terrors and wandered along happily with the chef.
Once there, god knows how, we found ourselves at the same table as the boys. Parents were elsewhere in the room. Potential downside - having to help them and/or not being able to stop them flood the table with their flour/water wells. Actual upside - fewer adults to share the bottles of wine in our part of the room.
The boys were great - got stuck in - and the chefs (and their mum) sorted out their dough. The kids had a great time and did a pretty good job all up.
We also did a pretty good job. G was praised for the consistency of his dough and my pizza was the roundest - finally got the shaping technique sorted. Yay.
The gelato part was more demo than class, but I'm happy to report that the sampling was very hands on.
The class was extremely fun and we did learn some stuff as well. All up, time and money well spent. Thanks for the recommendation, jo :)
Even tho we'd had plenty to eat (pizza and chocolate gelato) we still had room for a quiet drink at I'Gottino and then a coffee at Lost and Found, where a duo was playing pretty useful (but very loud) covers.
All in all a good day. Suddenly there are only a couple more days til we up sticks for Tokyo. How did that happen?
Glad you enjoyed it :)
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