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Dates, times and prices to be announced.
Venue: Palazzo Casali
Dates, times and prices will be announced.
Enjoy sampling some of the best local meats, cheeses and award winning wines alongside an assortment gourmet canapés as part of our series of Pre Concert Receptions showcasing locally produced food and wine. Set in a medieval courtyard just 2 minutes walk to the Theatre, different local wine estates are featured each day while a renowned local restaurateur Tonino cater the reception with locally sourced produce.
Friday 30 July, Sunday 1, Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 August
12.00 - 2.00pm
Sant'Agostino Courtyard
Recipes for the demostrations will come soon...
The Cooking with Mamma series of cooking demonstrations sell out each year. In addition to the demonstrations being a wonderful way to learn how Tuscan food is created in the home, they also provide a great place to meet fellow festival goers and enjoy the lovely surroundings of Sant Agostino. ‘Mama’ Donatella and her son Michele create a four course Tuscan meal – giving an insight on how traditional, famous and medieval Tuscan food is cooked. It’s entertaining, inspiring and interactive. You don’t have to cook at home to be fascinated at how simply these dishes come together and yet what mouth watering creations are served.
Set outdoors in the grassy monastery courtyard of Sant Agostino - Donatella cooks and explains the various techniques she is using while her son Michele assists her and translates into English. They finish up by serving an informal lunch that has just been prepared – accompanied by a glass of excellent local wine.
Each demonstration includes an antipasto, a first course, a second course and dessert. The demonstrations attract all ages and genders.
Il Falconiere Relais is a Michelin-starred restaurant owned by Silvia and Riccardo Baracchi. The restaurant is surrounded by the Baracchi vineyards and the setting could be a scene from a Tuscan painting. The tasting and lunch will provide a unique experience to taste the DOC accredited Baracchi wines, speak with the wine maker as well as taking in the setting of Il Falconiere Relais and a superb Michelin starred three-course lunch.
Menu, date and prices to be announced.
Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5 August
10.00 am - 1.00 pm
Ristorante La Bucaccia, Via Ghibellina 17 Cortona
Our cheesemaking workshops always sell out. Cheese maker Romano Magi is passionate about his craft and has been teaching cheese making in his popular restaurant for years. Plenty of cheese is demonstrated and consumed during Romano’s three hour work shop and splendid lunch. He peppers his lessons with background about cheese making in Tuscany – including details on the Etruscan age when cheese was made in the fields after milking and pressed into fresh herbs. His interactive class will involve making Classic Pecorino, Ricotta and Raviggiolo as well as other fresh cheeses incorporating Mediterranean herbs and cheese with spices. He will demonstrate Abbinamenti – combining cheese tasting with various relish and wines, Aperitivi al Formaggio Dolci e Salati – creating salty and sweet cheese canapes and Dessert Al Formaggio – a cheese dessert.
The demonstration includes lunch – provided by Agostina, Romano’s wife, and the chef of La Bucaccia. www.labucaccia.it
Tuscan Sun Festival in collaboration with the Wine Consortium of Cortona invites you can take a tour and enjoy a wine tasting of threee premium wineries of the region.
Wine has been produced in the region of Cortona since Etruscan times, due to its favourable climate and soil conditions. From small family run farms to large cellars of international importance – the area supports wine brands deeply-rooted in the region as well as new comers. The Wine Consortium of Cortona works to defend and protect the image and prestige of Cortona D.O.C wines. Wines within the Consortium have to adhere to defined production methods that satisfy a defined quality standard.
The tour includes transport to the vineyard, a tour of their facilities explanation about their processes in English and Italian as well as the wine tasting.
The vineyards, dates and prices to be announced.
- Cortona
9.30pm - 3.00pm,
For the first time in 2009 we provided an exciting and unique opportunity: a guided tour of the recently opened archaeological park, by the two professors who have been leading the excavation since 1990. The tour sold out and we will be repeating this in 2010.
The Italian-Canadian partnership of Professor Helen Fracchia and Professor Maurizio Gualitieri will take a small group on tour of the site as well as give a talk on their discoveries and insights into Etruscan and Roman life in the vicinity of Cortona. The tour and lecture will be followed up with an authentic Etruscan lunch, which has been carefully put together exclusively for the Tuscan Sun Festival.
Dates and prices to be announced.
9.30 am: Meeting point at Piazza del Mercato, Cortona.
Departure by shuttle (15 mins) to the archaeological park to meet with Professors Maurizio Gualtieri (University of Perugia) and Helena Fracchia (University of Edmonton).
Guided tour of the archaeological park in English and Italian.
11.30 am: Shuttle to Borgo il Melone for a lecture by Professors Maurizio Gualtieri and Helena Fracchia about Etruscan and Roman Cortona.
1.00 pm: Four course Etruscan lunch.
3.00 pm: departure by shuttle to piazza del Mercato, Cortona
Example Etruscan Lunch Menu:
A booklet with explanations about the menu will be available for participants.
Antipasto: Grapevine leaves stuffed rolls of spelt and vegetables, Olive tart; bread puff pastry without yeast, with black and green olives and boiled eggs with mint sauce
First course: Broad bean soup
Main course: Honey pork; leg marinated with honey, fennel and laurel.
Accompanied by dressed lettuce, and leeks in sauce
Dessert; Tyropatinam; cooked cream with honey and pepper, Offellae; omelette with fresh cheese with honey and poppy seeds, Dulcia; sweet bread with dry figs.
Limited to 50 people
