PASTA SESSIONS | Melina Puntoriero

PASTA SESSIONS 2027

Join us for a week of pasta workshops designed for chefs and food enthusiasts eager to dive into Italian cuisine through hands-on creation.

For chefs who need to find their voice again. For food lovers who want to understand Italian cooking from the inside out. Hands in dough, history on the plate!

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Hands kneading fresh egg pasta dough during a pasta session in Bedonia, Italy

Rolling sfoglia by hand with a matterello during a pasta course in the mountains of Parma

Winter in Bedonia, where Cook the Mountain runs its pasta sessions in the Italian Apenninesg

CLIENT REVIEWS

“taking the course with Melina in February changed the course of my life!” “It was the one thing that i needed which took me from a passionate pasta maker, to a professional. Melina has a sixth sense about what each student needs, and she reels you in and inspires you to push yourself to your own personal next level. i learned from her all of the important techniques, history, and practices of pasta in Italy.......as well as becoming privy to the secrets only italians have known for centuries! Melina is a rare combination of a professional teacher and a warm friend for each student. I am now proud to be running my own business and thriving, doing what i love. Sometimes it takes more than a class....it takes Melina!!!”

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Slow Travel in Northern Italy: Why the Parma Apennines Do It Better Than Puglia

Short answer: Slow travel in Italy works best where tourism never arrived. Bedonia — a mountain village in the Taro valley, province of Parma — has no queue, no bucket list and no reason to hurry you. Cook the Mountain runs small culinary retreats here, in a village where the lifestyle and food traditions were never interrupted, not because it can’t compete with Puglia, Tuscany, or Rome, but because like so many Italian villages, there was never enough money coming through

Melina Puntoriero

The Thing Most Chefs Were NEVER Taught About Pasta

The Thing Most Chefs Were Never Taught About Pasta

Melina Puntoriero

PASTA SESSIONS 2027

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Slow Travel in Northern Italy: Why the Parma Apennines Do It Better Than Puglia

The Thing Most Chefs Were NEVER Taught About Pasta

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