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Founder of La Micia Cooking, Keryn Ursi is passionate about the down to earth cooking of north and central Italy. You’ll benefit from Keryn’s experience working at renowned restaurant Osteria La Gatta, and the authentic home-style influence of Nonna Marianna (now 96) who started making pasta at age eight. We’ll make a variety of dishes that may include authentic baked chestnut gnocchi with mushroom sauce, a range of pastas including hand-twisted strozzapreti, orecchiette or the buckwheat pizzoccheri. We’ll top that with a sumptuous Italian sweet dish such as custard, almond or chocolate tart, chestnut cake, semi-freddo or sorbet. (The exact menu will be a surprise, depending on what produce is looking good on the day.) You’ll be ready to wow your friends, and they might just ask you if you’ve been on holiday anywhere special recently!

We’ll celebrate Italian style, enjoying the fruits of our labour with an array of dishes, a good glass of wine and good company – Italian style.

Additional Details

Please wear covered shoes suitable for working in the kitchen. 

Enter the College via the main reception area, which is located near the end of Cromwell Street, and follow the signs to the kitchen.

Public transport is often a good way to get to Collingwood College, with Collingwood train station only minutes away. However, on Saturdays there is usually parking available in the immediate vicinity of the College. Other parking options are generally the north and south sides of Hoddle Street, in Gipps Street and in the parking zone at the end of Islington Street.

Please note, the Foundation endeavours to proceed with each Public Workshop as planned, however in the instance of very low numbers of registrants or other unfortunate events we reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours before scheduled. In all cases we will do our utmost to inform registrants a week in advance of any cancellation, and a 100% refund will be made.