Professional cooking course

Discover the ingredients to start a professional career in the restaurant industry: enroll in our school's professional Italian cooking course!
Welcome and welcome to the path that will turn your passion for cooking into an exciting and fulfilling career!

At our school, we offer you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of Italian catering through our professional cooking course.

Discover the Authentic Taste of Italian Cuisine
Our course highlights the roots of Tuscan and Italian cuisine, guiding you through culinary traditions and the latest global trends. From ancient recipes to innovative approaches, you will learn to master fundamental techniques and understand the fascinating story behind each dish.

A Comprehensive Training Method
Classes take place in the stimulating atmosphere of the classroom-kitchen, where daily practice is mixed with interesting theoretical insights. We organize educational trips and visits to local producers, enriching your knowledge base. Thematic workshops, such as pastry and pork making, further enrich your training.

Driven Toward Success
During the course, you will be involved in the preparation of a full 4-course menu, culminating in a convivial lunch with your fellow students.
Guest lecturers, experts in their fields, will enrich your experience with regional input, style and culinary knowledge. At the end of the two-month course, you will have the opportunity to solidify your skills with a 4-6 month internship in one of Italy's finest restaurants.

Internship Tailored for You
The internship is not only an opportunity to practice what you have learned, but also to shape your experience. We will carefully consider the location of the internship based on your personal needs, guaranteeing you room and board during this time.

Ready to Kick Start Your Culinary Adventure?
Enroll in our course and get ready to become a successful chef. We are here to guide you on your journey to an exciting career in the Italian restaurant world. Join our family of chefs and start creating unforgettable culinary experiences. Your culinary adventure begins here! 

*Italian Cuisine is a training institution accredited and qualified by the Tuscany Region for training with the CSQ-IMQ certificate, in accordance with ISO 9001-2015.

Thematic workshops
During the two-month course you will attend food and wine workshops devoted to specific topics with experts in the field, such as: 

• Oil Tasting: visual examination, olfactory experience, tasting.
•  Wine Tasting: visual, olfactory, taste analysis. Reading the label. Organoleptic analysis: the eye, nose and mouth in tasting. Typicality of grapes, typicality of territories and typicality of wines. Native grape varieties vs. international grape varieties. Choosing wine: food/wine pairing criteria. Serving technique: presenting the bottle, opening the bottle, serving temperature, wine succession at the table.
• Baking: introduction to the world of bread and the variety of flours used; knowledge of practices used for leavening, from natural leavening to polish, to direct doughs.
• Vacuum Cooking: knowledge of vacuum cooking techniques and cooking and regeneration systems to maintain product quality and freshness.
• Butchery and Pork Butchery: analysis and knowledge of the art and techniques of meat processing, particularly pork, and the methods of meat bagging and processing.
• HACCP course - 12-hour training course.

At the end of the course will be issued:

• "HACCP - Mandatory Training for Complex Food Handler" certificate;
• Certificate of attendance at the workshop on 'oil;
• Certificate of attendance at the Italian Cuisine Professional Cooking Course recognized by the Region of Tuscany.

   

  It is also possible to attend one week of the course: for this mode, please write privately for more details

   

  Sign up!

  Enrolling is simple! And it is possible to do so by requesting the appropriate form via e-mail or by going to the School Secretariat at 37 Via della Zecca, Lucca.
  It is also possible to attend one week of the course: for this mode, please write privately for more details.

  Regulations 

  • An advance payment of 30% of the total amount for participation in the Course is due at the time of registration. The balance of the remaining 70% must be paid by the first day of class;
  • Any cancellation may be communicated between 40 and 25 days within the first day of the course. In that case Italian Cuisine will refund the deposit payment of 30%;
  • In case the cancellation is received within 25 days of the start of the course, the 30% payment made as a deposit will not be refunded;
  • In the event that the waiver occurs while the course has started and is in progress, no money will be refunded. It should also be noted that in this condition no certificate of attendance or diploma will be issued;
  • For students who drop out, Italian Cuisine will give the opportunity to take a course within the school, equal to the amount paid, in the following months;
  • Dropout students are defined as those who have dropped out within 25 days of the start of the course, or for those who have dropped out - due to force majeure, well justified - of the course while it is in progress, and in any case by the end of the 4th week of the Course;

Basic Professional Course Cost

€ 3,650.00 - including two months of professional course / The 7-week course is € 3,200.00

For options including internship, accommodation and Italian language course, please send an email to info@italiancuisine.it

Upcoming Courses:

• CP61B: Monday, September 2 to Friday, October 25, 2024;
• CP62A: March 31st to May 23rd, 2025
• CP62B: September 1st to 24th October 2025