4 Hour Private Cooking Class Unique Tuscan Experience In Siena

This was a wonderful experience! Very relaxed, fun, warm environment, good for any level of experience! Beautiful kitchen and yard and great recipes!!

Book with Marta now, you will not be disappointed! We are wrapping up a 5.5 week European trip and our class with Marta is one of our top highlights. We learned so much about cooking and Italy. The food was excellent, if we do say so ourselves, and the conversation with Marta was even better. She is now our friend! We are looking forward to practicing our new skills at home and sharing with our friends and family the joy Marta shared with us.

Marta was a wonderful host and made the experience personal and fun. I would highly recommend anyone who enjoys cooking to book her for a traditional Tuscan cooking experience.

Marta is a special chef and person! My family and I enjoyed her class and recipes were outstanding! Thank you for the wonderful time, experience and meal!

In May of 2026, Marta’s Cooking Class was one of the top highlights of our one month tour around Rome, the Amalfi coast, Florence and Tuscany! Marta is an expert cook and her knowledge of authentic tuscan cooking is also at an expert level. Marta welcomed us into her home and with her amazing listening and demonstration skills, gave us hands on training and confidence to prepare tuscan style pasta, bruschetta and tiramisu the way Italian nonne have been making it for centuries! Marta will make you feel not like a student, but like family! Don’t miss your opportunity to experience Marta’s skills and heartwarming hospitality in a stunning setting. Bill, Margaret, Sharon and Ian.

Marta was an amazing host and such a kind welcoming person, she is a fantastic teacher/chef and made our experience unforgettable. If you come to Siena, going to Marta's kitchen should be on the top of your list!! Thank you so much for welcoming us into your beautiful home and showing us your traditions!! Delizioso!!

Absolutely 5-star. Marta picked us up nearby and dropped us off afterward. We spent 4 hours together and she showed us a lot about cooking using simple ideas and concepts that helped us understand how to cook using our senses and not a strict recipe. She is a most wonderful, generous person who opened her heart and her home to us; it was like spending 4 hours with a longtime friend enjoying great food (which we made almost from scratch ourselves) and great conversation while we learned cooking the way my wife’s nonna taught her how to cook. Can’t say enough great things about Marta and her class….don’t miss it!

Great time! Great chef! Great meal! So much fun. Loved it. A true taste of Tuscany. 100% recommend. Would do again. Marta was so nice. We feel like we’ve made a new friend.

Nana was so kind and welcoming. I very much appreciated her instruction and information as we learned how to make several different dishes. They were so good so we ate well!! It was an enjoyable experience meeting so many new people, as well.

If you are looking for an authentic, personal, intimate, well informed, and easy going cooking class, THIS IS THE ONE to take!!! We had so much fun and laughed the whole time. Marta is an excellent instructor and gives positive feedback. She is so personable and truely loves what she does. First off, me and my friend tried to get a taxi to drive us to her place but none were available even though we went to a few taxi stops. Marta went out of her way to pick us up in the city center where there is limited driving roads( only taxis and residents allowed). The cooking class took place in Marta's home. It is a beautiful scenic home with a backyard overlooking the Tuscan hills. We had made 3 dishes.... Tiramisu, spinach and ricotta ravioli and a tagliatelle with fresh tomato sauce. She took us though the steps of each dish, guiding and encouraging us with the correct techniques for pasta making. She really believes that learning to cook hands on is the best way to learn so you 'feel' the proper texture of the food in certain steps. She is also passionate to teach us the history of the dishes. We sat in the backyard to enjoy our newly learned recipes, bruschetta and sampled fresh figs from her tree, freshly picked by her husband. I can't express how much we enjoyed this class and I highly recommend it. Grazie Millie Marta! ♥️♥️♥️

What a wonderful cooking class with Marta. She was a great host and chef. I learned to make spinach ravioli, linguine and tiramisu

The experience was wonderful! Marta was everything you would hope for in a host - she was kind, patient, understanding, funny, and so knowledgeable. She took her time to clearly explain everything and allowed the kids to be involved with cooking. Not only did she teach us to cook some traditional Tuscan dishes but she helped us with our Italian and taught us some of the history and culture of the region. Anyone who books this class with Marta will have such a great time. I cannot recommend this highly enough. It has been the highlight of our trip.

Marta was an excellent hostess . She taught us about making pasta and explained the nuances of choosing the right flour and cooking methods. Excellent class and very engaging class with lots of background on Tuscan cooking and dishes

Marta's Cooking Class is an experience you will never regret! From the moment we met her until the time we said "ciao" was an amazing experience. Marta was hands on, personable, friendly, and very encouraging. She took her time to explain the recipes, the process, and what the importance was of each ingredient. In the end we made a delicious spinach and ricotta ravioli, and a delicious tiramisu for dessert. Our experience was a 10+/10!! Thank you Marta for an awesome day!

I highly recommend this cooking experience if you want to immerse your senses into Tuscany. Marta created a cooking lesson that not only shared the ingredients of the delicious dishes but also the ingredients of the history behind the dishes. Marta is a delight and I look forward to meeting again in the future.

My 20 year old daughter and I took this cooking class with Marta. She was welcoming, easy to work with and is a great home chef! It was well organized and she communicated well ahead of time. Everything was laid out and we had a fun day learning and cooking. Marta knows technique but also the history and it was fun to experience her Tuscan PRIDE! I loved that we had a small intimate experience (just two of us) versus a big class. Cooking at her home felt also very natural and authentic like we were locals. The landscape is absolutely stunning and we even had visits from her sweet cats though they did not cook with us..haha. We made Ravioli with Spinach and Fresh Sage, Tiramisu and a dish with Chicken and Olives. All Delicious!

We had the most amazing time! Totally recommend. Marta was our chef - we made amazing ravioli, chicken with rosemary white wine sauce and unbelievable Tiramisu! Bravo to Marta an amazing experience all around!!

Our host Marta was so kind and very personable. We had just the best time! This class was one of the highlights of our trip to Italy!!

Ms Marta taught us so much about Italian cooking and was a delight! We made spinach and ricotta ravioli, tagliatelle, a ragu meat sauce and finished it off with a tasty tiramisu. It was all delicious and a great learning experience.