Lombardia
Explore Italy’s northern region, famous for robust commerce, iconic fashion houses, and beautiful lakes.
Lombardia is Italy’s most populous, wealthy, and productive region, but there’s much more to it than business and industry. Surrounded by the beauty of lakes Maggiore, Como and Garda and hemmed by the Alps, Lombardia is loved for its magnificent landscape.
Lombardy hosts more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other region in Italy— for example, the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent, which houses Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper.
Lombardia produces many of Italy’s most beloved foods: risotto, polenta, panettone, Bresaola (air-dried beef), Mortara Goose Salami, Varzi Salami, Robiola, Crescenza, Taleggio, Bitto, Mascarpone, Gorgonzola and Grana Padano cheese and pumpkin..
Choose Lombardia as your event’s regional theme, and you’ll learn much more about this region as well as how to make a crowd-pleasing type of ravioli.
Riavioli di Zucca (Pumpkin Ravioli)
Learn how to make this delicious squared pasta, stuffed with a filling of pumpkin pulp, parmesan cheese, and amaretti biscuits, ingredients that give this dish its unique blend of salty, sweet, and bittersweet flavor profiles. You’ll learn how to balance the flavor nuances of the filling — definitely a recipe that will impress!
This traditional raviolo shape dates back at least to the Late Middle Ages, while pumpkin as an ingredient dates back to the late 16th century. This pasta was created as a tasty and nutritious dish, with what little the peasant economy provided. Learn all about this, and more, as you explore Lombardia with this pasta class.
