Italy is all to be visited to discover its environmental beauties, to learn about its history. To admire its artistic and architectural beauties ... to try his cuisine. There is probably no country in the world where travel or vacation can have a connotation gastronomic which enriches it with an added value. And which takes on a rare flavor when the cook opens the doors of her home to offer particular locations and traditional Italian cuisine. Lunches, dinners, aperitifs, tastings, but also cooking classes and visits to local specialty producers. From north to south, east to west, you are spoiled for choice. All this is the Cesarine, the oldest network of non-professional cooks / cooks with a great passion for traditional Italian cuisine. Home cooking, grandmother's old recipes, the typical product of the area: these are the proposals on the tables of their homes, open to accommodate travelers from all over the world.

The Cesarine - Cesarina Maria Abbracciavento, Alberobello
Cesarina Maria Abbracciavento, Alberobello

An experience of Slow Food who wants to safeguard home cooking (but no less refined) by offering traditional recipes in an atmosphere of typically Italian hospitality. There are now about 1500 Cesarine / i distributed throughout the Italian territory, 80% women. They are on average between 45 and 50 years old and in this percentage are also counted couples, husband and wife, friends, friends who have experiences together. They are distributed throughout Italy, about 400 locations passing from the Aosta Valley to the Sardinia. There are Cesarine / i in big cities, in small villages and in the countryside. In the Apulian trulli, in the Sienese countryside, in old castles and monasteries.

Cesarine: foreign guests from all over the world

It was 2004 when the first cooks / housewives met in Bologna and formed a simple cultural association. Thirteen years later, in 2017, they were already online thanks to Davide Maggi, founder of the Cesarine.com platform. The platform has become an innovative start-up thanks to some angel investors. In 2019 she was selected by ScaleIT. A success with encouraging results. The numbers for 2019: there were more than 1500 private events. Beyond 10 thousand guests, 80 percent of whom were foreigners mainly from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, England and Switzerland. Gross turnover, again in 2019, was 1,2 million euros, up 225 percent compared to 2018. An Equity Crowdfunding campaign on the CrowdFundMe platform is being launched.

Le Cesarine - Cesarina Oriana who teaches children how to prepare orecchiette
CookingClass in Bologna, Cesarina Oriana

Cooking classes, a recipe book, online assistance for preparing gourmet dishes at home

Choosing the Cesarine means sitting at the table with the host, sometimes even with his family. Taste the dishes he personally prepared in his kitchen, with particular attention to typical products and a special regard for the guest who is welcomed in an Italian residence. These are the ingredients that have created the success of the Cesarine formula. The Cesarine have also become a recipe book, those of home and family; a series of online cooking courses in Italian and English, the most requested are those for preparing pasta and Tiramisu. In addition to physical experiences, some services have been digitized, such as online and live assistance for cooking. With the Cesarine it is possible to prepare dishes together even at a distance, both through videochat and whatsapp.

Le Cesarine - people taking part in a cooking class in Milan at Sissi's
Cooking class in Milan at Sissi's

The future of the network will also be abroad, withidea of ​​involving Italians who have emigrated to the world and who love cooking. Winning prospect because it is already in demand. Both by Italians residing abroad. Both by those who, after an experience in the Italian home of a Cesarina, inquire about the possibility of being able to do the same abroad. From Italy to the world, Italian home cooks are preparing to have an international dimension.

Traditional cuisine and Italian hospitality: the slow food of the Cesarine last edit: 2020-07-29T09:30:00+02:00 da Cristina Campolonghi

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