This Grandma Is Offering Virtual Pasta Making Classes From Her Home in Italy
If you’re looking for something fun to do with your family or you just want to treat yourself to lots of carbs, how about learning to make delicious homemade pasta from scratch? Now you can, thanks to virtual cooking classes taught by a grandma in Italy.
Usually, 84-year-old Nonna (Italian for “grandmother”) Nerina hosts the highly rated Airbnb Experience, “Handmade pasta with grandma.” In the class, Nonna Nerina and her sisters show participants how to prepare pasta with just their hands. But to help protect the spread of coronavirus, all Airbnb Experiences are temporarily paused. While you can’t attend the cooking class in person right now, you can still learn how to make pasta from Nonna Nerina by tuning in to Nonna Live.
During the two-hour live stream, Nonna Nerina and her granddaughter Chiara will show you how to cook their favorite family recipes that go back generations. A week before your class, they’ll send you a shopping list of ingredients to buy and any utensils you might need to cook with. But since they keep it simple, you probably have most of the things you’ll need. They’ll also send their favorite wine pairing suggestions.
On Saturdays, Nonna Nerina will cook vegetarian fettuccine with tomato sauce, and Sundays she’ll make cannelloni. On Wednesdays, Chiara will show viewers how to make vegetarian ravioli with butter sage sauce. Thursdays, she’ll cook vegetarian gnocchi with pesto, and Fridays, she’ll make lasagna.
Each live stream session is $50—register here before all the classes fill up.