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Tenuta Seliano is the agriturismo (farm-inn) on my dear friend Baronessa Cecilia Bellelli Bartta's farm.

At least four times a year, I use her farm as a base for culinary vacations that include some hands on cooking, wonderful eating and interesting culinary gastromomic and cultural touring in the south of Italy. These sessions include excursions to Puglia, Basilicata, Salerno and the Amalfi Coast.

Actually, Cecilia has two agriturismi, which are working farms that take in guests. Tenuta Seliano grows various vegetables and fruits, has olive trees whose fruit is pressed for oil, and breeds and houses horses used for riding and jumping. Masseria Eliseo, across the road, is where Cecilia’s herd of water buffalo are housed. Of course the bufala milk is used to make mozzarella and ricotta.

We have planned four seasonal sessions. All the sessions are different – with different foods and recipes and some different cultural activities. Each session has three half-day cooking classes combined with other half-day activities, and two full days of touring.

Dishes will vary each season, as obviously the produce does. In general, there is an emphasis on the products of the immediate agricultural area and the produce of the Tenuta Seliano itself: mozzarella di bufala, ricotta, and other cheeses and dairy products, fruits and vegetables, goat, buffalo meat, and, naturally, pasta. During the three half-day sessions, every individual will have an opportunity to take a turn at deep frying, grilling, making tomato sauce and ragu, making their own liqueur to take home, preparing and cooking vegetables, pasta dishes, and desserts.

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