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The Italian Culinary Experience offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to not only learn Italian cooking in New York City, but to attend ALMA, one of the finest cooking schools in Italy, where you'll spend nine weeks honing your craft under the tutelage some of the country's best chefs. Our Total ImmersionSM method of cooking instruction provides the aspiring Italian chef with a comprehensive knowledge of everything from the history of Italian cooking and its vital role in the country's culture, to a thorough training of Italian cooking methods and techniques, to actual on-stage experience where you take what you've learned in both New York City and from your Italian cooking classes in Italy into the kitchen of an Italian restaurant. To learn more about this unique experience, or to enroll in the ICE, please visit our comprehensive Italian Culinary Experience course overview.
Your Total ImmersionSM begins with the history of Italian cuisine, Italian language instruction, and study of the important relationship shared by Italian cuisine and culture. After this week-long immersive education, you'll begin an intensive hands-on study of all aspects of the preparation and presentation of Italian Cuisine.
- Stocks and Sauces: A good soup relies upon a good stock, and you'll learn everything about stocks, soups, and sauces from ingredient selection to the final product; you'll also learn how to prepare a wide variety of legumes and grains;
- Pasta: Making pasta is a keystone to any Italian culinary instruction; in your Italian cooking courses in New York City, you'll learn not only how to make fresh pasta such at chitarra, but you'll learn more about the history of Italian cooking in your investigation into the various traditional regional pasta shapes. Additionally, you'll learn to fully prepare the many varieties of filled pasta such as tortellini and agnolotti, and the intricacies of matching the flavors of the perfect sauce with the perfect pasta. Further, your instruction in pasta making will include the many types of gnocchi, polenta, and types of rice such as arbolio and carnaroli.
- Fish and Seafood: Cuttlefish, eel, octopus, shrimp, shellfish, lobster, flat and round fish. You'll learn how to determine seafood's freshness, scaling, trimming, gutting, and filleting, and how to cook, serve, and plate all types of seafood.
- Meats: From purchasing the finest cuts to fabrication and storage, you'll learn the many techniques involved in the preparation of meats, including poultry, beef, lamb, and pork. The Italian cooking methods we teach include grilling, sautéing, broiling, broasting, deep-frying, pan frying, braising, and roasting.
- Contorni/Side Dishes: Our expert Chef-Instructors will teach you the Italian cooking methods and techniques used to prepare a wide variety of vegetables, greens, and salads.
- Italian Pastry and Other Desserts: From crostate to cannoli, tiramisu to gelato, your Italian Cooking Experience includes the many types of Italian pastry and desserts.
A crucial part of learning Italian cuisine is to take your instruction beyond simply learning methods in New York's cooking schools to Italy itself, being deeply immersed in traditional methods and further honing your language skills and your intimate knowledge of the history of Italian cooking and its deep roots in the country's culture. Immediately following your ten weeks in New York City, you'll fly to Parma, Italy to continue your Total ImmersionSM instruction at ALMA, The International School of Italian Cuisine, one of the finest and most highly regarded cooking schools in Italy. You'll find yourself elbow-to-elbow with Michelin-rated Italian chefs, learning Italian cooking methods and the ins-and-outs of the professional Italian kitchen.
- The History of Italian Cooking: You'll be educated in the birth and development of traditional regional Italian recipes, and gain deep insight into the relationship of Italian cuisine to the region and culture.
- Guest Chef Demonstration: Unique among cooking schools in Italy, the Italian Cooking Experience features instruction by no fewer than sixteen one or two star Michelin Guest Chefs, with each lesson running six hours.
- Products and Raw Materials: Your Italian cooking classes in Italy will instruct you in the direct relationship between regional cuisine and the availability and quality of raw materials.
- Cooking Practice and Traditional Italian Recipes: One of the primary benefits offered by cooking schools in Italy is the ability to learn from professional Italian chefs; this is the core of The Italian Culinary Experience's Italian cooking classes in Italy. This combination of demonstrations and hands-on intensive training further deepens your Total ImmersionSM education.
- Wines: You'll learn the critical role wine plays in the history of Italian cooking, and in Italian gastronomy.
Your experience will also include important on-site visits to production facilities for such crucial products as olive oil, balsamic vinegar, truffles, Parma ham, Parmigiano Reggiano, Chianti, Montalcino, and Barolo wines, and much more.
To further reinforce your training, The Italian Culinary Experience takes you out of the cooking schools in Italy and into the kitchen of an Italian restaurant. You'll spend nine weeks on-stage applying the Italian cooking methods and techniques you've learned to a real-life environment.
If you're interested in deeply learning Italian cookery, don't miss The Italian Culinary Experience. You'll benefit from intensive classroom training in New York and the unique learning opportunities provided by one of the best cooking schools in Italy; Italian cooking classes in Italy provide an unmatched perspective in the history of Italian cooking, its role in the culture, and how top-rated Italian chefs prepare traditional regional cuisine. To learn more or to enroll in The ICE, please visit The Italian Culinary Experience overview and curriculum page, and please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions regarding our cooking schools in Italy or New York.
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