Cooking from Sicily

Adult Enrichment / Food & Drink -

Spring 2025

Sicily is renowned for its beautiful landscapes and exceptional cuisine, featuring abundant seafood, bold sauces, and delicious pasta. Its desserts are equally unforgettable. Learn to prepare classic Sicilian dishes, including mussels with saffron and garlic toasts, chicken arrabiatta, pasta in a lemon ricotta sauce, and Sardinian orange and raisin cookies. Enjoy a memorable evening cooking and tasting some of Sicily’s finest flavors.

Diane Manteca

Diane Manteca has been a professional chef for thirty-three years, working in high end gourmet establishments and catering. For eight years she owned the eclectic and popular Brickyard Café in Cambridge. Diane has co-authored a Zone cookbook on healthy eating and worked as a food consultant and developed recipes for a major specialty food company. Her teaching career spans over 30 years with Italian cooking as her specialty, along with Moroccan, African, Asian, Cuban French, and regional cooking from the United States. She travels to Italy often to learn regional Italian cooking and brings her knowledge back to teach her students.

June 2025