This experience is about cooking, sharing time at the table and understanding the true flavours of Sicily, in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
What you’ll do
You’ll prepare a full meal of 4-course, step by step with the chef, in seven preparation: starter, fresh pasta, fresh tomato sauce, fried aubergine, meat dish with salad and dessert at the end. The focus is on ingredients and technique you can replicate at home, with clear explanations and time to ask questions.
Menu example
• Veggie starter
• Fresh pasta alla Norma
• Sicilian braciole (pork rolls)
• Orange and fennel salad
• “Bianco mangiare” lemon cream with fruit
Dietary needs
Please inform us in advance of any dietary preferences, intolerances or allergies. When possible, we can adapt the menu for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or lactose-free guests.
What’s included
All ingredients and equipment, aperitif with Sicilian sparkling wine and bites. The meal is accompanied by a selection of Sicilian white and/or red wines I have personally chosen for you. My hospitality ensures that water, juice, and Italian coffee are available throughout the day. Plus a PDF cookbook so you can recreate the recipes at home. With your consent, photos from the day may be shared on our social media.
About Your Chef
Antonio Sireci is a chef and sommelier with international experience. He shares family traditions, local stories and practical techniques that make Sicilian cuisine accessible to everyone.
His passion for cooking began at the kitchen table, watching and helping his mother and grandmother, and was then refined with Maestro Salvatore Cascino (born 1929), one of the great traditional Sicilian Chefs of his time. He has worked in Sicily and abroad, including the USA and Germany. In 2012, he founded Sicilian Food Lovers to share, through hands-on experiences, real Sicilian home-style cuisine in an intimate setting.