Italian cooking schools right here in South Africa

You don’t have to travel all the way to Italy for a culinary vacation. South Africa has some excellent Italian cooking schools in Boksburg and Sunninghill. You can learn how to prepare delicious Italian meals at Wickedfood® Cooking Schools through morning, afternoon and evening classes.

The stylish kitchens, combined with state-of-the-art equipment and professional instruction in relaxed settings make these kitchens the best Italian cooking schools in South Africa for learning the secrets of the Italian culinary arts.

Our classes normally run for between 3 and 4 hours and include the preparation of a multi-course meal and light beverages to be enjoyed at the end of the sessions. Wickedfood® Cooking Schools are known as South Africa’s premier culinary institutes, dedicated to teaching you culinary arts from Italy and other countries at the same professional level as the Italian cooking schools right here in South Africa.

Whether you are a novice in the kitchen, wanting to learn how to prepare a traditional Italian dish to impress your friends, or a hobby cook who wants to learn more about ethnic based cookery, you are sure to find classes at these “Italian cooking schools” entertaining. Learn how to spice up your cooking through simple yet, less familiar techniques, in a lively atmosphere where you get to mingle with other students who share your interest in food.

The classes at Wickedfood® Italian cooking schools are run by well-trained instructors who will give you some background about Italian cookery methods, terms, ingredients and utensils normally used. After the explanation and lecture, the class is divided into groups where students roll-up their sleeves and work together in the preparation of a minimum of six dishes to form a full course meal. The counter assistant and instructor are there to help and should you make a mistake or two, it will not cause a stir.

Fun and laughter form part of the process while you learn the fine culinary arts normally taught at Italian cooking schools. On average 8 to 30 students attend these classes, where socializing form part of the preparation and eventually enjoyment of the meals afterwards.

Learn for instance, how to use the Italian cooking terms in the correct manner and what goes together. Do you know how to prepare authentic pasta and can you differentiate between the pastas? If not, why not spice up your knowledge at Wickedfood® Cooking Schools? You will for instance, not find shrimp scampi on an Italian menu as scampi is a clawed prawn. You can thus not have shrimp-shrimp so the correct description on the Italian menu is Scampi alla Piastra (iron plate) or Scampi Grilgiati which means grilled shrimp.

Learn the culinary art of the very passionate Italian nation in South Africa with some of your friends or colleagues through our group classes where kitchen teas, birthday parties and Team Building take on a whole new meaning. Invite your clients to a group cooking class for entertainment while learning new skills, or bring your colleagues for a Team Building event where barriers are torn down and the playground leveled. These group classes help to build new relationships, as well as developing important skills such as communication, time management and resource planning in a stress-free environment.

We also offer competition cooking where up to 3 groups are pitted against each other. Groups have to use the ingredients supplied to complete the full course meal in the set time. Assessment is done throughout the process. Neatness, time and ingredients used are evaluated and finally also the taste. The winning team is selected by a panel.

All classes include the instruction, use of utensils, comprehensive lecture notes, hands-on practical cooking fun and the enjoyment of meals afterwards. We supply the aprons for the duration of the class, all you need to bring is your willingness to learn, a love for fun and coming dressed in casual clothes with non-slippery shoes.

Come and enjoy the best of Italian food preparation that can be applied in your home at Wickedfood® Cooking Schools which compare to the best of Italian cooking schools in the world.