Thanks to Marco and Marcello, my hosts at the Italian School of Cooking, where I attended a class on pasta making last night. As well as learning how easy it is to make pasta without a machine – I was dead proud of my attempts at orecchiette! – I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening, eating and drinking, meeting people and being serenaded over dinner by a very enthusiastic Marco.
The school, which is centrally located in Rathmines, is definitely worth checking out. Time to pick up a bag of durum flour from the Italian shop in Ranelagh for some pasta-making experiments down at the cottage.
Food writer, broadcaster and author Caroline Hennessy has been focused on food and writing since editing Ireland’s first food website for RTÉ in 2000. Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, she established the award-winning Bibliocook: All About Food in 2005, is the author of two books about beer and food and has a column in the Irish Examiner in which she writes about small food producers and the ways in which they develop and maintain a sustainable local food system.
If you have a pasta machine you’ll be way ahead of me, Deborah! That night Marcello made Maltagliati e Fagioli – a bean soup with roughly torn sheets of fresh pasta and I still remember the pasta’s lovely silky texture. Of course, this dish was made using a pasta machine. I’ve been trying to avoid buying one but maybe I’ll just have to invest after all!
Caroline, DH being the cheap ba****d he is, he got it for €9.99 at Aldi!!! But I was in a lovely cookery shop in Tullamore the other day and I swear it’s the same machine there for €100. So maybe just shop around!
I’m Roberto,I’m Italian and I want give my congratulations to the Italian School of Cooking for their work, their enthusiasm and their work to improve lots of the Italian restaurants in Dublin.I’d love organize a team cooking with all my Irish colleagues in your school really soon. In my office your food and songs are very popular!Thanks Caroline,CiaoRoberto.
These Italian guys are simply wonderful!Warm atmosphere and great food,I spent a special birthday in their School,I really reccomend the introductory course.Mary Malone
Thanks to Marco and Marcello, my hosts at the Italian School of Cooking, where I attended a class on pasta making last night. As well as learning how easy it is to make pasta without a machine – I was dead proud of my attempts at orecchiette! – I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening, eating and drinking, meeting people and being serenaded over dinner by a very enthusiastic Marco.
Thanks for the tip. Would love to learn more about Italian cooking. Got a pasta machine for Christmas and finally got the hang of it! Love your blog!
Beautiful venue, beautiful people! A great experience with Italian School of Cooking. Always INTENSITA’!!!
If you have a pasta machine you’ll be way ahead of me, Deborah! That night Marcello made Maltagliati e Fagioli – a bean soup with roughly torn sheets of fresh pasta and I still remember the pasta’s lovely silky texture. Of course, this dish was made using a pasta machine. I’ve been trying to avoid buying one but maybe I’ll just have to invest after all!
Caroline, DH being the cheap ba****d he is, he got it for €9.99 at Aldi!!! But I was in a lovely cookery shop in Tullamore the other day and I swear it’s the same machine there for €100. So maybe just shop around!
I’m Roberto,I’m Italian and I want give my congratulations to the Italian School of Cooking for their work, their enthusiasm and their work to improve lots of the Italian restaurants in Dublin.I’d love organize a team cooking with all my Irish colleagues in your school really soon. In my office your food and songs are very popular!Thanks Caroline,CiaoRoberto.
These Italian guys are simply wonderful!Warm atmosphere and great food,I spent a special birthday in their School,I really reccomend the introductory course.Mary Malone