About Cookweeks

Cookweeks compares cooking courses abroad that last a week or longer, from a cooking week in the countryside to several months at a culinary school, using the same fields for every course so they can be compared fairly. We started with Italy: 54 schools and 88 courses, read on school websites in October and November 2026.

The name comes from the idea behind the site: learning to cook somewhere new takes weeks, not hours. We list courses of about a week (5 days or 4 nights) or longer, and compare a week, a month and a season side by side.

How we work

• Every price is copied from the school’s own page, with the wording it is quoted in and the date we read it. See how we check prices.
• We do not estimate missing prices; they show as “price on request”.
• No school pays to be listed or to rank higher. Courses are sorted by price, not by deals.
• We plan to add affiliate links to booking sites; when we do, those links will be labelled.

Corrections and new courses: contact@cookweeks.com.

Photo credits

• Homemade fresh pasta (spaghetti) by Camille (Unsplash) by davide ragusa, CC0. Cropped and resized.
• Ponte Vecchio Arno Florence by Jebulon, CC0. Cropped and resized.
• Colosseum in Rome, Italy - April 2007 by Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5. Cropped and resized.
• Bologna - Piazza Maggiore from Palazzo Comunale by Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized.
• Margherita Originale by Mario56, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized.
• Positano (Italy) 03 by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized.
• Amalfi - limoni e peperoncini - "lemons and red dried peppers" by Yvon from Netherlands, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• Grape vines and cypress trees in Tuscany by Ian McKellar, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• Gelato Museum - Ice-cream machines by Turismo Emilia Romagna, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• Fresh pasta (2735668959) by Angelo DeSantis, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.