Diane Seed's Culinary Adventures

Diane Seed, author of the best-selling "The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces" and many other books on Italian cooking, has lived in Rome for over 30 years. She has a cooking school in the beautiful Doria Pamphili palace in the centre of Rome. Her apartment is in the part of the palace used to house guests on the Grand Tour, and the small round window looks over Piazza Venezia, down to the Forum and the Colosseum.

Diane also takes people to explore exciting destinations like Sicily, Puglia and the Amalfi Coast, and in the last four years she has started developing gastronomic tours to countries she explored while researching her Mediterranean and Indian books.These tours have some cooking but the emphasis is on finding good food and wine while enjoying the most appealing aspects of these fascinating countries. The Gourmet Adventures feature Greece, Turkey, Morocco and India.

Gourmet Adventures in 2011 and 2012

Puglia in October 2011 for the olive harvest

Goa and Kerala in February 2012

Istanbul in May 2012

Sifnos Greece in June 2012

Sicily in October 2012

Today air travel has become fraught with problems but I still travel a lot, and for me the arrival more than makes up for the 'travelling hopefully'. Certain places make me feel I have known and loved them in another lifetime while others are excitingly alien.Greece has been my summer mecca for many years, demanding a yearly pilgrimage, and in the last few years I have started to add gastronomic tours to those countries I explored while researching my Mediterranean book. I fell in love with India through books, long before my first visit, and the many trips I made while writing my Indian cook book added another perennial pleasure.

These tours have some cooking, usually 2 or 3 lessons, but the emphasis is on finding the good food and enjoying the most appealing aspects of these fascinating countries.

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Cooking School

Learn about Italian life, past and present, as you enjoy incredible, fresh flavours. You don't have to be a passionate. experienced cook to enjoy this experience.

Cooking School in Rome
Cooking School in Amalfi
Cooking School in Puglia
Cooking School in Sicily

Gourmet Adventures

Puglia October/November 2011

Goa and Kerala-February 2012

Istanbul - May 2012

Greece - Sifnos June 2012

Sicily - October 2012

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Last minute olive harvest and cooking in Puglia October 29

I had finished my gourmet trips for this year but when I realized I had nothing planned for the new olive harvest I decided on a visit to Puglia. There will now be a cooking school and olive oil gourmet tour around Monopoli on October 29 th. People can do a long weekend or a 6 day course. Let me know if you are interested and I will send details because I need to update the Puglia pages on my web site.

Rome

There is still some space in the September and October cooking weeks. It is possible to do 2 or 3 days if you are short on time.

Dates for 2012 Gourmet AdventuresLast minute olive harvest and cooking in Puglia October 29