KITCHEN of the Casa
We attach great importance to the meals for our guests. In the morning a rich breakfast buffet is awaiting you, with cereals, fruits, tomatoes, sheep cheese, and much more. Of course there is also home-baked bread.
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For lunch and dinner the cook will treat you with fresh salads, risotto Milanese, lasagne, tortellini in butter and sage, or stuffed zucchini, just to name a few of the kitchen's highlights. Refreshing water from our own spring quenches your thirst, and delicious local red wine always accompanies the meals.
Would you like to learn how to cook? Learn more about the Culinary Week at the Casa here.
Giovanni Dellefant, cook, philosopher and Austrian with Italian roots, purchased Casa Pian di Bonano in 1980.
CASA PIAN DI BONANO
THE CASA
THE CASA
Guesthouse in Tuscany
CULINARY WEEK
Cook, enjoy, relax
CULINARY WEEK AT THE CASA
A one week break in nature, together with an easy going cooking seminar about the secrets of Italian cuisine, centring around lifting your mind, body and soul - and all that the kitchen and cellar can contribute to it.
Now you can try your own hand at cooking.
Your teacher Giovanni Dellefant - owner and cook of the casa - lets you inspect the kitchenware, shows how to do the basics and is not unwilling to give away the little tips and tricks which are crucial for giving the dishes their refining touch.
Excursions into the surroundings will let you become familiar with the regional products and their amenities: sun-ripened tomatoes, fresh figs, field salad, artichokes, wild boar, lamb and mushrooms, cheese and salami and the excellent wines of Tuscany.
And not least the herbs and spices which nature around the house offers generously: thyme, juniper, laurel, oregano, mint and balm.
"We enjoyed a lot to cook in the open air every day! It gave us a feeling of harmony to cook and eat fresh food in fresh air. We also liked that the scheduled dishes where not complicated to prepare. So it's not at all difficult to create a good meal."
"It was a memorable experience to find how a short week can so much sensitize your taste."
"Thank you again for your hospitality at this magic place. We could take with us so much on many different levels and returned home richly rewarded."
"It is a joy to remember the wonderful week and the many fine experiences we had together." We are very grateful for it.
PRICE:
€ 790,- pp, for 1 week (6 nights)
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This includes:
Daily cooking class
Accommodation
Culinary excursions
Buffet breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Afternoon coffee & tea
Get in touch here, to book your culinary course in 2026.
"Your beautiful estate in Tuscany is a wonderful setting for the Culinary Week. It turns out to be very grounding not to have the usual comfort around."
"We finished reading the cookbook already. It was sheer pleasure with all these drawings. We felt the heart and the love for high-quality, sensual eating with relish."
"... with pleasure, big knives, salad spinner, the joy of combining flavours ... high quality ingredients, the Carbonara without cream and just a touch of cheese, also Radicchio strudel with genuine smoked cheese was very appreciated."
"Daily routine is back but we can feed on the beautiful time in Tuscany - in the best sense of the word."