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About Us

Micol and Dino

Over the years, we cooked with more than 10,000 people at our Manhattan cooking school on West 39th Street. We loved meeting so many enthusiastic home cooks, helping them hone their skills and widen their culinary repertoire. It was a really exciting adventure, but after 15 years, we felt it was time for a new chapter in our lives, and so on January 31, 2020, we taught our last cooking class at our Midtown NYC school. The timing turned out to be quite lucky for us, because a few weeks later the COVID-19 pandemic immobilized NYC (and the world) in a big way.

After many years of going back and forth from the US to Italy, we made our dream come true and moved to a small town on the Ligurian Coast in 2023.

We now happily spend our time leading private cooking tours to Italy for small groups.