Essenze di Venezia

Since 1 May 2020, you receive life-time access to all courses you signed up to. All courses include colorful downloads, ebooks, videos and other interactive learning materials like worksheets, checklists, Venice guides or workbooks. In addition, you receive all future updates to the courses you signed up for, at no extra cost.

Our online courses are designed for all those interested in Venice, foodies, and practically everyone who loves Mediterranean food, lifestyle, and history. As we are now enlarging our offer in spring 2020, we will be adding more health and lifestyle tips, and spice recipes to existing classes as well. We would like to create a virtual Venice experience for you, now that international travel is restricted or not possible at all. The VENETIA - VENETIAN HERITAGE AND CULTURE online class provides you with the basic know-how to fully benefit from our upcoming seasonal online cooking classes. It is designed for you to get a holistic impression of Venice and includes background stories about recipes! We use a multi-disciplinary approach to tell the unknown stories of Venice, followed by in-depth know-how on food culture, self-sufficient agriculture in the Lagoon, Lagoon stewardship, design, arts, artisans and architecture. Our online courses have been designed carefully, in fact, they have been in the making since 2014 and are updated at least 2-3 times per year, to ensure you receive the best and up-to-date learning materials. Our culinary online classes are designed as virtual retreats in Venice for food lovers. As backdrop to the classes, we invite you to discover our neighborhood in Venice, the sestiere Castello. You can work through our culinary classes during 3-7 days, as they come with recipes and menus for you to try immediately, or at your own pace.

It does! Even in Venice, we have forgotten so much about our own heritage, let alone historical recipes. We share documents we have carefully collected and researched at the State Archive, and in other public and private libraries in Venice. In fact, grandmother Lina started doing research on the material we use, back in 1945 at the library of the former monastery San Zaccaria, at San Lazzaro degli Armeni and San Francesco della Vigna. Thus, even if you live in Venice, there's something very special to discover, promised!

Yes, you can also give our online classes as a gift to the foodies and Venetophiles in your life! Please get in touch with us at [email protected] and we will get back to you immediately. Please forward us the name and email address of the person receiving the online class, and we will mail you a payment link (payment via Paypal and credit card). As soon as payment is through, you can notify your friend of the gift and we will enroll them in the class and send access information, so they can start learning and enjoying Venice and her recipes immediately.

Our courses and retreats are completely self-paced, so you can enroll and get started any time. You can also take a break and return later. In fact, your course materials will be here, waiting for you :-) If you have questions during your course, we are available, and you will be able to reach us directly via a private email address! From May 2020, all students have access to a private Group so you can ask questions and we will also answer them there!

Absolutely! We would be delighted to introduce you to our city and her food! Venetian food is like a special Mediterranean diet with many health benefits and unexpected flavors, so everyone is so welcome to taste and learn more about it!

Our Venice Heritage Course takes about 7-8 hours to complete. If you wish to dive into the materials we have included for you to go through, it will take longer :-) Our culinary classes take about 3-4 hours to work through, because we want you to get cooking and eating Venetian food as soon as possible!

Our online classes are very easy to navigate: You can go back and forth any time, jump between courses, download your learning materials, and watch videos.

Lina and Iris teach the online courses. LINA TERESA LOREDAN founded three restaurants and hotels in Venice since 1945. She grew up in the northern Lagoon during WW2, but returned to the family home after the end of the war. She is a proud member of Cavalieri di San Marco, a private association of the former noble families of Venice. IRIS is Lina's grand-daughter, and wrote her thesis on Ecology and Urbanization of the Lagoon of Venice. For more than 10 years, Iris has been head of CSR / Sustainability and Head of Health@Work of a large international banking group. She is also an expert in Venetian culinary history, aromatherapy and phytotherapy and studied at the Universities of Venice and Vienna.