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Italian Culinary Institute, English-speaking Cooking Courses in Southern Italy:
Learn authentic traditional Italian cooking with world-renowned master chefs in the heart of Southern Italy! Italian Culinary Institute is a top chef training school in Copanello, just five minutes from stunning Soverato in the Calabria region of Southern Italy (90 minutes north of Sicily). We provide a wide range of short, intensive Italian cooking classes including specialized Traditional Italian Cuisine full immersion courses - for professional chefs, culinary arts & hospitality students, and serious home cooks.

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• Traditional Italian Charcuterie: Curing Meats, Sausage Making & Artisanal Salumi:
- Duration: 1 weeks / 50+ hours
- Culinary Certificate Program instructed by the ICI Masters, for Chefs, Bakers & Home Gourmets.
- Curing Meats, Sausage Making & Artisanal Salami Classical Methods and Modern Techniques for Naturally Preserving Foods.
- ALL INCLUSIVE OF ACCOMMODATION, EXQUISITE MEALS, COURSE & CULTURAL TRAVEL.

Traditional Italian Charcuterie is an in-depth program designed to enable culinarians to create an unlimited array of cured specialties. Through continuous hands-on training throughout the program, students master the art of regional Italian charcuterie through the production of over twenty-five types of sausage, salami and meats that can all be modified to adapt to any palate. This program uses only natural ingredients for long term conservation and does not employ the use of nitrates.

The course begins with tastings of Italy’s best and least known regional specialties and then proceeds to cover the science necessary for long term conservation of meats from any animal while ensuring the most important element of any prepared food: perfect flavor. Students then learn the techniques necessary to personalize any preparation according to taste, client trends, regional availability of raw materials, etc.

• The Foundation of Italian Cuisine:
- Duration: 1 weeks / 50+ hours
- Culinary Certificate Program instructed by the ICI Masters, for Chefs, Bakers & Home Gourmets.
- Culinary & Baking Program, Classic & Modern Italian Regional Cuisine, Specialty Breads, Pizza and Focaccia.
- ALL INCLUSIVE OF ACCOMMODATION, EXQUISITE MEALS, COURSE & CULTURAL TRAVEL.

The Foundation of Italian Cuisine is the first week of the two week course Evolution of Italian Cuisine. Designed for both culinary professionals and serious gastronomy enthusiasts, this short, intensive cooking course is fast paced and features cultural exploration, hands on full immersion days and fine dining by night. Includes cultural travel.

This course goes beyond the standard and enables culinarians to develop and conserve component ingredients that can be incorporated to any chef's or pastry chef's repertoire with personal products that can be stored on a shelf freeing precious refrigerator and freezer space.

ITINERARY:
Day 1 - Arrival, Check-In And Welcome Dinner
Day 2 - The Foundation Of Italian Haute Cuisine: Raw Ingredients & Flavor Perception; Extra Virgin Olive Oil Analysis; Technical Overview; Base Preparations
Day 3 - The Foundation Of Regional Italian Cuisine; Regional Italian Cooking
Day 4 - Pasta, Pasta, Pasta...!!!
Day 5 - Focaccia, Pizza And Specialty Breads: Tradition And Evolution According To ICI; Dinner At A Hearth Oven Pizzeria
Day 6 - Neither Meat Nor Fish; Mediterranean And Vegetarian Cuisine; Cucina Espressa; Plate Decorations & Plate Art
Day 7 - Market Visit; Visit And Wine Tasting In An Enoteca; Artisan Gelato Tasting; Hearth Baking; Awarding Of Certificates; Pizza Party
Day 8 - Departure

• The Evolution of Italian Cuisine:
- Duration: 2 weeks / 100+ hours
- Culinary Certificate Program instructed by the ICI Masters, for Chefs, Bakers & Home Gourmets.
- Professional Culinary & Baking Program, Classic & Modern Italian Regional Cuisine, Specialty Breads, Pizza, Focaccia, Desserts, Cheesemaking & visit to Sicily.
- ALL INCLUSIVE OF ACCOMMODATION, EXQUISITE MEALS, COURSE & CULTURAL TRAVEL. 

Scheduled Courses for 2022 / 2023:

Professional Italian Cooking Courses - taught in English or Italian:

3-month culinary immersion course:
• Master of Italian Cuisine

2-week culinary immersion course:
• The Evolution of Italian Cuisine

1-week culinary immersion courses:
• Foundation of Italian Cuisine
• Traditional Italian Charcuterie
• Artisan Italian Cheese Making
• Pastry, Desserts and Gelato
• Pizza Focaccia and Specialty Breads, Artisan Baking.

Student Reviews:
"I have attended ICI a total of two times and each experience has been quite rewarding... The courses are filled with information and hands on cooking. As an instructor for the Culinary Program at the Art Institute in Tucson, Arizona I particularly like these programs as they help me with my teaching technique."
- Tom Kresler (Traditional Italian Charcuterie course), Tucson AZ - USA

"Hands down! The best place to learn and develop yourself as a chef and at the same time enjoy the southern hospitality and more importantly the best ingredients I've ever seen in the world!!"
- Siddhanth Sawkar - India