The Culinary Institute, Tuscany, Italy
Posted on July 31st, 2010 by admin
Perhaps you have noticed the ad spots for Olive Garden’s. The Olive Garden has launched a series of commercials featuring the Culinary Institute in Tuscany. Well the truth is that they do have a cooking school that the most esteemed one hundred Olive Garden chefs and managers of Olive Garden restaurants are elected to visit for eleven weeks every winter. The institute has been operational ever since 1999 and hosts authentic training in Italian cooking. You may wonder what goes on after these 11 weeks? Well it actually becomes a bed and breakfast the rest of the time.
This now popular institute is to be found on the property of Riserva di Fizzano. It boasts a winery, guest house, pool, and restaurant. Romana Neri herself, the Head Chef of Olive Garden, is the administrator for this school. The chef resides in Tuscany and operates the chef training courses. This entire set-upbrings up the question: how genuine is this American restaurant? While there is a school in Italy, can the chain authenticate their claim that they provide real Italian food? Well this is the tie in. Evidently the dishes dreamed up at the Institute are discernible on Olive Gardens menus with a particular seal. Two items devised at the Institute that are currently served at Olive Garden include Grilled Shrimp Caprese and the Smoked Mozarella Fonduta.
So Olive Garden can assert that they operate a cooking school, but what is also impressive is that these chefs and managers arent the only ones able to go to the institute. Members of the public can take part in a one-week course. Each year a sweepstakes is held where anyone are allowed to enter and the grand prize is this prestigious cooking school course. The winning contestant is permited to spend seven days in Tuscany learning to cook at the school. They learn about foodstuffs like cooking oils, wines, cheeses, and how these items can complement your dinner.
This gracious bed an breakfast dons its chef hat for just 12 weeks of the year and the remainder of the time it becomes a bed and breakfast where anybody may stay. In the off season the restaurant opens its doors to locals and traditional Tuscan foods are offered to its customers. Tuscan cuisine is featured in specific cooking instruction modules offered to the general public during these months.
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