Italian Cuisine
International School of Italian Cooking
The beginnings of the Italian Cuisine school date back to 1985 when Professor Nobuo Nishimura, owner of the Japanese publishing house, Bunryu, began to spread Italian traditions in Japan. Nishimura, who had met the young Chef Gianluca Pardini a few years earlier in Tokyo, decided to entrust him with the task of training Japanese Chefs in Italy.
After many years in the hills of Siena, the school was moved to Lucca in 2004, opening its doors to aspiring Chefs from Italy and from all over the world.
Director and Chef Gianluca Pardini, together with his close-knit team carries on the business, teaching the beauty and challenge of confronting the stove every day and being constantly up to date.
Our school
Cooking class categories
Professional courses, intensive courses and basic courses for amateurs.
Professional Courses
Taste your potential
Amateur Courses
Make cooking a passion
Specialized courses
Discover new techniques
Our values
Why choose Italian Cuisine courses
Italian Cuisine stands out for its decades of teaching experience and for the care and attention it gives to each individual student, making them feel actively involved in the creative process and involving them in every moment of learning.
Limited seats
Our professional courses are open to a maximum of 12 participants per edition to give each student his or her own space and importance.
Best teachers
From star chefs, to bakery artisans, pastry chefs and beyond, they contribute their knowledge for comprehensive training.
In-depth workshops
During the professional course, which takes place 90 percent in the kitchen classroom, in-depth workshops with focus on specific topics are scheduled.
Collaboration
To better prepare our students, professional courses are organized according to a method of dividing the class into working groups: the kitchen is a team, and our school teaches what collaboration means.
Internship and end-of-course graduation
To learn the best and enter the world of work Italian Cuisine has always organized training internships for students in the best Italian restaurants and beyond.
Italian Cuisine is a training agency accredited to the Region of Tuscany. A certificate of participation is issued at the end of the course.
Internationality
The peculiarity of Italian Cuisine is to encourage the exchange and meeting of different cultures in its cuisine to encourage the enrichment of each student's cultural background.
Many courses are also available in foreign languages.
Italian Cuisine's most popular courses
Featured Courses
Professional cooking course
A professionalizing course that will turn your passion into your job. A comprehensive training method where daily practice is mixed with theoretical insights and a tailor-made internship in one of Italy's best restaurants.
Basic Cooking Classes for Food-Lovers
Explore the World of Cooking with Italian Cuisine!
This program is designed for those who wish not only to learn, but to fully immerse themselves in the fundamental skills of cooking, all in an atmosphere of warm conviviality.
Japanese cooking class: sushi and sashimi
A fascinating journey into the world of Japanese cuisine, discovering the secrets, techniques and ingredients that make it so beloved around the world.
Italian Cuisine is a training organization accredited to the Region of Tuscany
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What our students say
Gianluca,
Dear me.... Without sharing details about my orderly health and limitations during my time with you, I am so grateful that you allowed me to participate freely in my recent Road Scholar program in Lucca. You are a treasure, a true gift to the program and made it a pleasure with patience and love for Italy and cooking made from the heart.
Hello, I hope you are doing well there in Italy. :) We received our wedding photos and I wanted to share some of them with you. I also wanted to thank you again for the amazing food, kindness, sweetness and cheerfulness. I am so happy that our paths crossed and after several searches you were our cook for the wedding.
The professional course for aspiring chefs and cooking enthusiasts, spent at the International Academy of Italian Cuisine in Lucca in Fall 2023, was a wonderful experience for me. During 8 weeks I was able to deepen and enrich my knowledge of Italian and Tuscan cuisine. The chef and director Gianluca Pardini, with great professionalism , and at the same time with a lot of sympathy and human warmth.
I am very satisfied with how the training program is structured and the content of the program. We started with the basics of Italian cooking (sauces, different types of pasta) and gradually moved on to complex processes and masterclasses by extraordinary chefs, who passed on their valuable experience and shared their signature recipes.
I have participated in about ten cooking classes. Master Gian Luca and fellow Chef Mariella are perfect masters!!! Over the years I have delved with them into various aspects.... from bread making, ravioli, flans, crudités, presentation of dishes...treatment of fresh fish...always in a very professional spirit but not at all "heavy".
I went on Sunday, June 2, for lunch for a 50th wedding anniversary, and we had very special dishes from both land and sea. What is written on the internet about chef Gianluca Pardini is all true. He is a person who is very attentive to presentation, quality and came up to us very often asking if everything was perfect.
I was really impressed by the professionalism and quality that in this academy patron GIANLUCA PARDINI and all his staff manage to provide when they present special ,traditional Lucchese, Tuscan dishes to customers who come from all over the world to learn cooking techniques and selections of typical products.
Dear Chef Gianluca!!!
Thank you for making my cooking experience in Lucca incredible! Your classes were the highlight of my visit! You are an amazing teacher.
All the best for your future classes! I hope your students are as enthusiastic as we were!
Your student and friend,
Mary Jo Suhrer
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