MASTER THE ART OF RISOTTO

Name: MASTER THE ART OF RISOTTO
Start: 2025-01-12T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-12T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Cultivate

Schedule

Sun Jan 12 2025 at 11:30 am to 01:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Cultivate | Jacksonville, FL

Risotto is a highly gratifying and completely adaptable dish, though it's widely known that making it demands a specific skill set you might not possess yet. This course is designed for anyone who loves risotto and genuinely, truly wants to learn how to prepare it!
In this risotto course, you'll explore the various types of rice and understand why a specific kind is essential. You'll delve into the creative process of crafting a risotto that delights the palate and leaves your guests craving more. Most importantly, in this class, you'll master the techniques necessary to achieve the perfect blend of creamy risotto by properly handling the starches from beginning to end, along with an "al dente" rice that offers the ideal chewiness and delightful texture.
Menu:
Risotto al Parmigiano Reggiano
Risotto ai gamberi (shrimps)
Grilled zucchini with goat cheese
The class is fully interactive, includes ingredients, material, recipes and lunch. Feel free to bring your own bottle of wine or special beverages.

About Diana - Born and raised in a small town in Northern Italy between the Como lake and Milan Diana lived there for most of her life. Her parents and her region helped her appreciate food ant the food culture, therefore her roots. Food has always been an important part of her life, and as every Italian, food is in all her conversations. She talks about dinner while making lunch and about lunch while making dinner!
After having moved in her 30s to Switzerland then to England, the Netherlands and to the States in 2017, she traveled back and forth during summer and Christmas and this allowed her to maintain her childhood friendships and the long life relationships.
Certified English as a Foreign Language teacher, she has a true passion for teaching. Having lived in five different countries and speaking five foreign languages has allowed her to embrace different cultures incorporating them in my cooking classes.
Today, she teaches cooking all around Jacksonville: in-home cooking, breweries, restaurants, clubhouses, retail shops and private venues. Collaborates with several chefs, restaurants and local farms and. She recently added virtual cooking classes to her services to respond to the social distancing measures in place. She also teaches Italian and English as a foreign language online and has culinary tours in Italy twice a year. Her last one was October 2023 in Tuscany.
Her burning desire is to open a front store cooking studio one day, where she can showcase her Italian products while continuing educating and sharing her passion for Italy and her unique culture.