Nemi With your hands

Four-hour class on the four Roman pasta sauces

Nemi

Gricia, amatriciana, carbonara and cacio e pepe are close cousins, and Romans argue about the borders between them endlessly. Here you make each one yourself and find out where the differences actually live.

How the day goes

  1. Start with the ingredients: what goes in, and what stays out.
  2. Work through the sauces one at a time, doing every stage yourself.
  3. Each dish gets its history and its variants while you are cooking it.
  4. Plate them the way they are meant to arrive.

Your hands are in it from the first step to the last — it is a class, not a demonstration you watch from a stool.

Where it is

Nemi at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Nemi, and where it is from Rome Nemi drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 47 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 47 min Rome Nemi

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Nemi — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 47 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 32 kmeach way
  • 4 honce you are there

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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