Rome / Roman Kitchen

One of the most anticipated things we did in our third week in Rome was cooking classes.

Dad and I had cooking classes with five other people as well as our teacher, a very famous cook and author, Diane Seed.
We had five four hour lessons Monday - Friday, all inside Diane's Apartment.

Here is a photo of me cooking - or grating a lemon to be precise - in Diane's kitchen.On the Tuesday we went to Campo di Fiori - Rome's
largest fresh produce market - to get ingredients for cooking a great many Italian dishes.
This is me at Campo di Fiori.My favourites were the "Spaghetti Bolognese" and the "Pasta cresciuta (Fried zucchini flower stuffed with mozzerella and anchovies)".

We put on a fair bit of weight eating 11 and a half gallons of Olive Oil each, which Diane put on every dish.

I have now got some excellent recipes to cook up at Clunes, which is my yr 9 camp.

This was a very unusual highlight of my trip.