Classic Trattoria Cooking with Chef Marco Barbaro
What you'll learn
- Cook classic Italian family restaurant style recipes, with simplicity and traditional flavor.
- Understand the necessary, core ingredients to classic Italian family restaurant cooking.
- Set your kitchen up with efficiency and ease, understanding the basic elements of authentic Italian cooking.
- Have fun exploring new and old flavors while preparing meals for your family and friends.
- Learn the methods my father used when he opened his first restaurant in Brooklyn after immigrating from Italy in 1955. Italian American cooking, as real as it gets.
Requirements
- A willingness to learn, cook and enjoy great food.
Description
Learn the simple and classic Italian dishes served at one of New York's premiere trattoria's. Join chef Marco Barbaro, as he takes you into the kitchen at Gino's Trattoria and shares with you the recipes and techniques his father Vito Barbaro used in his Brooklyn restaurant after immigrating to the US from Barile, Italy in 1955. The recipes in this course are the exact recipes used by chef Marco's father when he opened his first Italian restaurant.
This course is centered on the basics of trattoria cooking and how you can create some of the classic flavors and dishes with simple ingredients. As well, chef Marco teaches how to transform your kitchen into a traditional trattoria style kitchen, basic knife skills, pot and pan selection and types of utensils you will want to use.
Classic Trattoria Cooking starts off with an introduction ingredients and preparation and evolves into a chef Marco teaching some of the most popular dishes at his trattoria. Chef Marco's skill and energetic, positive attitude make learning a pleasure as students can cook alongside this course and create traditional meals that will be savored.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in classic family style Italian cooking.
- Cooking enthusiasts who are interested in looking back in time, when Italian cooking came to Brooklyn. These methods and ingredients haven't changed since 1955.
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Instructor
- 3.6 Instructor Rating
- 68 Reviews
- 317 Students
- 1 Course
Chef Marco Barbaro is the son of Italian immigrant parents who came to the United States in 1955 from Barile, Italy. Chef Marco's father, Vito Barbaro began working in an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn and in short time opened his own restaurant in Yonkers. Through the 60's and 70's, Vito's restaurants gained popularity.
Today, his two sons, Gino and Marco have owned and operated Vito's highly successful trattoria in Mahopac, New York for over twenty years. Sadly, Vito passed away in 2006, but every night when you visit Gino's Trattoria, you will be greeted by his lovely wife Ivana and his sons, Gino and Marco.
Marco Barbaro is the Executive Chef at Gino's Trattoria, along with being a founding partner of the DISH Restaurant Group. He is an award winning chef, receiving recognition from such groups as Best of Hudson, Talk Of The Town and (his favorite) a 5 star rating from the New York State Department of Health for maintaining a kitchen of unmatched standard.
Marco is a proud husband and father of three daughters.