PastaLab

DESCRIPTION

From Cavatielli to Fusilli , in this Lab Activity you will be able to learn all the secrets and the essential recipes to make fresh traditional pasta from Cilento.

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Bread and Mother Yeast Lab

DESCRIPTION

Get the good chance to discover, in the history of mankind, what is to be considered among the most creative and amazing technologies in human nutrition: mother yeast, in a practical course covering all aspects. The course aims at transferring the know-how and the techniques for the production of bread with ancient whole wheat flours and with mother yeast. In addition to all these aspects, the techniques for making, keeping and taking care of mother yeast will be also explained.

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Honey Making

Lab

DESCRIZIONE

An amazing experience, as sweet as honey : in late spring and in summer, when wild flowers are all in bloom and bees have plenty of nectar and – thus – food to collect, it will be really a wonderful experience to enjoy this Honey Making Lab, which includes all basic steps for the process of honey from the bee hive to the jar, so you may then tell your friends how amazing and enthusiastic it can be to live as “a junior honey maker “.

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Traditional Cilento  Desserts Lab

DESCRIPTION

Traditional flavor is to be expected from home made desserts. Desserts belonging to an ancient paistry style, different from one season to anothe, being clean and with a nice taste, full of care and attention; as opposite to practical and branded industrial food products.

“ Scaratielli, Cannoli, Chiacchiere, Pastorelle, Struffoli! For each kind of desserts there are different ingredients depending on the recipes given in each different local village. Each family in Cilento often keeps “ the secret “ about how to make an excellent dessert or cream. The Lab will introduce, depending on the season, one of the traditional desserts – thus – guiding each member from the start of the making process until the final steps of cream stuffing or cake decoration /design.

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Horse Riding Tour

DESCRPTION

The horse stables are open to anyone willing to have a close encounter with horses: from beginners to experts, in our place, everyone will get the chance to enjoy their own experience.

And while the Horse Riding Classes are planned for beginners, more expert  horse riders may wish to go out on a tour, taking more or less a long time, riding on top of the hills, kissed by the sunshine, among the olive groves and following the beautiful mountain paths of Cilento, even touring across the beautiful ancient villages in Cilento and – thus – breathing the true scents of nature, always with amazing views keeping good company.

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The Way of Wheat

The unique emotion of going for a walk in fields of wheat will leave you breathless and will plunge you into another time lapse. You may wish to learn how to harvest fields of rare type of wheat, such as single and multiple whole spelled, whole wheat Senatore Cappelli, red whole wheat, soft wheat ash. Then, have fun in making bread, pasta and desserts by only using flour from these qualities of wheat.

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Olive Oil Tasting Session

DESCRIPTION

In Cilento the weather is regularly ideal for the harvesting of olive trees and there are also many typical “ Cultivar “ olive trees, from which the healthy and well-known top quality extra-virgin olive oilk is extracted.

You may wish to learn the tasting techniques and the know-how in order to understand the different types of top quality DOC local olive oils in this area known as Cilento.

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Wine Tasting Session

DESCRIPTION

Sensory tasting is a very important practical skill to understand the knowledge and the significant history of wine. Making a full immersion sensory but descriptive analysis of wine, learning how the perception of the organic quality flavors of a wine can help you match the wine with food. In this experience, 3 different qualities of wine will be introduced to be tasted and combined with 3 different qualities of typical local cheese from Cilento.

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Ti Olio

Traces of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil

DESCRIPTION

The world of the Earth’s green gold. You may wish to discover the whole world of extra virgin olive oil by walking in the olive groves, lab activities, visiting oil mills for olive processing and technical tasting sessions. Different expo stands available for olive oil tasting sessions, arts and crafts, in the blooming organic farms of La Petrosa and finally ending up sitting down at the table in order to appeciate the genuine flavors of the Cilento landscapes.

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Caprine and Goats CacioricottaLab

DESCRIZIONE

The production tehcniques of goat’s cacioricotta cheese, a Slow Food heritage food, stay inchanged throughout centuries and award Cacioricotta cheese as one of the oldest main local hand made food productsfrom Cilento area and from South Italy. This Lab Activity will teach you all the useful know-how applied in the making process of this delicious type of quality cheese.

At La Petrosa the Caprine and Goats experience is all about goats. Adults and children get a close opportunity to meet these friendly animals, to learn how to take care of them and how to milk them and also take them for a nice walk from the farms to the hills; then, in the CacioricottaLab visitor get the chance to learn how to make goats’ cheese and even taste the freshly made cheese!

At I Moresani Farmhouse, the CacioricottaLab is mainly based on the cheese production process: the cooking, the cheese curd and its breaking and its collection. Of course, visitors must not miss the final cheese tasting session!

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Jams and

sauces lab

DESCRIPTION

By starting from the harvest of the freshest and most genuine local vegetables and seasonal fruits in the fields , visitors will start learning from the oldest techniques in food saving, in making of jars full of artichokes or “ crushed olives” to the preparation of jams and marmolades full of ancient flavors reminiscent of the ancient times of genuine food at Km0.

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Farming lab

DESCRIPTION

For visitors who love living in the country-side, this experience will allow you a full immersion into an organic farm lifestyle. Depending on the weather seasons, you may wish to learn how to harvest vegetables, how to listen to the stories of centenary old olive trees, to discover and rediscover farm animals: chickens/poultry, rabbits, goats, cows and pigs.

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Typical cuisine lab

DESCRIPTION

This Cuisine Lab will help you discover the nature and the traditions of Cilento thanks to the beautiful locations and unique special flavors of our area, known as the homeland of Mediterranean Diet. In this Cuisin Lab you will get to learn the true principles of the recipes of Cilento Cuisine, as the expression of poor simple cuisine as a trademark of good and genuine flavors for every taste.

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Cheese tasting Session

DESCRIPTION

In this experience, you will get to taste many different qualities of traditional cheese from the Cilento area and the Campania region. And especially in the Cilento area, you will get to taste the well-known Goats’ Cacioricotta cheese, a Slow Food heritage hand made food product. 

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Mediterranean

Cuisine Course

DESCRIPTION

For visitors in love with Mediterranean Cuisine, this Course will give the opportunity to learn all the secrets behind the making and the preparation of typical Cilento products. Home made pasta, sauces, soups with legumes, stuffed vegetables and traditional desserts: all the flavors of Cilento in a unique experience to be enjoyed happily.

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Traditional

Cilento pizza lab

DESCRIPTION

Pizza in Cilento was traditionally prepared as “ provaturo “ – the flour dough used to test if the wood oven’s temperature was ready to make bread. Today, pizza is one of the most loved and most famous food products in the world. How to make a good pizza? With passion and patience. The accurate selection of ingredients is the main issue underlying the making of a balanced and well done pizza. This Lab will show the ingredients and products, their organic qualities and nutritional values, in addition to their origin and history of Cilento. Lab members will gain in-deep know-how in preparation tehcniques and will take a “ nice trip “ around Cilento, thanks to the different seasonal products and the excellent local ingredients from the local farms in Cilento.

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Yoga Experience

DESCRIPTION

Yoga in a few steps. Unroll the carpet and let yourself go in a relaxing sequence of moves in a wonderful location: Cilento!

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The Mediterranean

Diet Story

Margaret and Ancel Keys tell...