Chef Gregorio is running private small groups for four to ten people that want to have an intimate and unique experience in Southern Italy. Reserve, and customize your trip with your family, your partner, or your friends, and live Italy like an Italian with Chef Gregorio and his family for 10 days. When you book for your own group, whether it’s for four or ten people, you will not travel with other people than your group. These tours have been created only for intimate friends and families.
Take a private culinary journey to Calabria, Sicily, Puglia or Basilicata – Southern Italy’s less traveled destinations. Your 10 day/9 night gastronomical tour with Chef Gregorio and his team.
Your trip will include: All transportations, superior accommodations in Villa in Calabria, and fine 3 or 4 start hotels in Puglia, Basilicata or Sicily, all meals with wines, market visits, hands-on cooking classes, tours, special days, and authentic dinners in the regions’ finest restaurants.
NB: Price doesn’t include airfare and expenses during free time.
January, February and March are the months in Calabria for pigs butchering and traditional Italian Charcuterie: Curing Meats, Sausage Making and Artisanal Salumi. It’s also citrus season. Calabria and Sicily are well known for lemons, oranges, blood oranges, clementines, bergamots, grapefruits, and more. During your stay in this season we will also experience salami, sausage and prosciutto tasting, accompanied with local cheeses and wines from this region. We will make together citrus marmalades, orange crostata, and tasting Bergamot products (honey, marmalade, candied peel).
April, May, June and July are the months for fresh vegetables and fresh fruits, and of course amazing seafood. During your stay in Calabria, we will go to the open-air market, we will buy great ingredients to make our special and local recipes together. You will be immersed in the community, and meet Chef Gregorio’s family and friends. He knows everyone in town, and people love to meet him with his groups. This is a great season to visit Southern Italy.
Chef Gregorio, as a real Italian, takes off the month of August to relax on the beach with his family and his friend!!!
September is the month for the Calabria “vendemmia”, the Italian word for the grape harvest. The exact start date is decided year by year, depending on the weather, the quantity of rain fall and the changes from one vineyard to another. The most important thing is that grapes must have the right level of sweetness. During your stay we will visit a local winery where we will experience a fullday of “vendemmia” from picking to squeezing the grapes. And of course, wine tasting! You can also buy great wines here for reasonable prices.
October is the month where local go to the mountain for wild truffles and porcini mushrooms hunting, and they sale them on the side of the street. During your stay we will buy some fresh truffles and porcini, and make a few recipes. Like porcini carpaccio, fresh tagliatelle with black truffle, veal scaloppini with porcini, fried porcini, and truffle and parmigiano reggiano salad.
November is the month for olive harvest. Beautiful time for Calabresi. During your stay we will visit a “frantoio”, the Italian word for oil mill, where we will experience a full day from the picking to the squeezing. At the end of the visit you will get from us a nice bottle of first press Extra Virgin Olive Oil.