About Us

Mark an Englishman who, when travelling in Italy, became enchanted with Sabina, and returned to settle here. The first thing he noticed was that this was not the Walt Disney make believe world of Toscana but a real Italian place with genuine people going about their daily lives, taking time with that perfect cappucino, choosing the 'pane' and 'verdura' and cooking the most wonderful food from fresh almost always organically grown produce - For Italians taste is everything. No perfect lettuces flown half-way around the world here! No menus in English or German, in fact, hardly any menus, but what's fresh, what's in season and all prepared with loving care.



Faced with the dilemma of wanting to share this wonderful place with others but not wishing to disrupt or ruin village life, Mark founded a Taste of Rome Italian cooking holidays so that others could share the delight of the relatively untouched village life and the genuine warmth of the people together with the delicious local food and wine.

So we put together a group of people who you will find making your Italian cooking holiday , a cooking holiday to remember !



Johnny Madge
SLOW FOOD ITALIA
Will be our guide for our very informal wine tastings .

A very big part of our cooking holiday experience is the Extra Virgin olive oil and wine tastings. For us these are special nights in johnny's bar !

Johnny has years of experience organising tastings both in Italy and the UK, and both tastes and writes about Olive oil and wine on behalf of Slow food in Italy . By tasting , talking to producers and presenting Italian wine's and Olive oil's, he has a knowledge and understanding of the olive oil and wine worlds and has found the best money can buy for you to try !






Susanna , a highly respected Art restorer in Italy, having worked on and supervised the restoration of some of Rome's and Italy's most important art treasures , she specialises in paintings , fresco's and stone , as well as being at the watercolour lessons she will be on hand to show how to clean a painting without damaging it and is available to show some of the historic important frescos in Sabina.













Genni , The delightful Genni , Casperia born and bred will take you through at least one lesson of Italian cooking with the help of her team. Genni's cooking lessons are all about having fun whilst giving an insight and learning the skills of Sabine Italian cooking . Genni's passion comes through as she takes you from antipasti to dolce with surprises all along the way.





So come and enjoy a week here in comfort, beautiful surroundings and with good company and fine food and wine We are sure it will be an unforgettable Italian cooking experience.