A great Florence cooking class puts you at a real wooden board with flour on your hands, turning plain eggs and semolina into something you will want to make again at home.
Our pick
You roll, cut, and plate fresh pasta from scratch, then sit down to eat what you made with a glass of local wine. It is short enough to leave a full day free for the Uffizi or the Duomo, and the teaching actually explains the why behind each step, like resting the dough and how thin to take it, so you walk out able to repeat it in your own kitchen rather than just having watched a chef do it.
If our pick doesn't fit
A countryside day trip with a market visit and a farmhouse lunch, totally different in scale and setting from a city-centre class.