Enjoy a full-day journey through the food culture of Sicily on a half-day combined market tour and cookery class.

Start by meeting your chef for a guided tour of the local markets. Savour the aromas and colours of Sicily’s produce, selecting ingredients to prepare your lunch. Meet the fruit and vegetable vendors to find out what’s in season, and the fishmonger to choose the fresh catch of the day.

Then, head to the kitchen for a hands-on cooking class in the company of Chef Massimo. You will learn to make some of his family recipes and Sicilian specialities, such as ricotta-stuffed courgette flowers, a rainbow of sautéed peppers, aubergine and courgette caponata, stuffed artichokes, and fresh egg pasta.

For your main, you will prepare a fish, meat or vegetarian dish, such as involtini (rolled stuffed beef), fish cooked Taormina-style, or polpette (meatballs). End by making a typical Sicilian dessert, before enjoying a lunch based on the foods you prepared in class. Wash it all down with some delicious Sicilian wines.