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Late Summer Italian Feast

Name: Late Summer Italian Feast
Brand: Valentina Harris
Price: 160.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Valentina Harris

£160

Thursday 29th
September 2026

11:00-14:30(3.5hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Late Summer Italian Feast with Valentina Harris

Celebrate the glorious flavours of late summer with award-winning Italian cook and bestselling author Valentina Harris. This inspiring hands-on cookery class is a celebration of Italy's abundant harvest, bringing together beautiful seasonal ingredients and authentic regional recipes that capture the very essence of an Italian summer.

Guided by Valentina's expert tuition, you'll prepare a delicious feast inspired by some of Italy's most treasured regions. Along the way, you'll discover invaluable tips, traditional techniques and the secrets to creating elegant, flavour-packed dishes that are wonderfully simple to recreate at home.

Whether you're an experienced home cook or simply passionate about Italian food, you'll leave feeling inspired, confident and ready to bring a taste of Italy to your own kitchen.

On the Menu:

Calamari salad with rocket & lemon
Schiacciata d'Uva - Traditional Florentine Grape Bread
Zucchini & parmesan tart
Pasta rotolo with summer herbs, lemon & mascarpone
Panzanella - classic late summer tomato & bread salad
Italian meringue layer cake with summer fruits

Your experience includes:

Refreshments on arrival and throughout the class
Use of a professional apron and all equipment
All premium ingredients, expertly prepared and weighed for you
A beautifully presented recipe pack to take home
A leisurely lunch featuring the dishes you've created, enjoyed together with a glass of wine or soft drink
10% off purchases made in-store on the day, including future cookery classes (excluding books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items)
And, of course... we take care of all the washing up!

Meet Your Teacher

Valentina Harris is one of Britain's best-loved authorities on Italian food. An award-winning author of more than 50 cookbooks—including The Italian Regional Cookbook, Risotto! Risotto!, Classic Recipes of Tuscany, 500 Italian Recipes and Complete Italian Cookery Course—she has spent decades sharing the rich culinary traditions of her Anglo-Italian heritage.

Educated in Italy before bringing her teaching and expertise to London, Valentina is renowned for making authentic Italian cooking approachable, enjoyable and full of flavour. Her classes are as entertaining as they are informative, weaving together practical techniques, fascinating food history and stories from Italy's diverse regions.

A familiar face at food festivals and across television, radio and the national press, Valentina continues to inspire cooks of every level with her passion for genuine Italian cuisine.

Escape to Italy for the day, discover new skills, enjoy exceptional food and leave with recipes you'll treasure for years to come.

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.