Saturday, 13th December 2025

10am till 2pm

$250

This cooking class is always a hit for so many reasons; it’s the last class of the year, there is always a tremendous lunch menu planned, and well, it’s Christmas – a time to be festive and gather with friends & family!

In this cooking class, Angela with share her love of creating an Italian Christmas lunch – where she will be influenced by her Southern Italian heritage, her extensive experience and knowledge gained from many years of study (Angela is a trained pastry chef), her work experience in commercial kitchens, and her overall love of Italian cooking & baking!

This Italian Christmas Lunch with include the following menu –‘Pasta con Frutti di Mare’ to start, ‘Porchetta’ for our main, and to end ‘Cherry Almond Semifreddo! 

There will be morning tea served on arrival, a glass of bubbles to help along the way, and of course, a glass of vino for the sit-down lunch – where the fruits of labour will be devoured and enjoyed!

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

Saturday, 6 December 2025
10am till 2pm
$200

SOLD OUT

This is a Summer Italian Lunch cooking class! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using summer produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; peaches, nectarines, berries, tomatoes, capsicums, cucumbers, zucchini, cherries, mangoes, stone fruits (including my favourite apricots) and on and on the list goes. Summer is a favourite season of mine to cook and bake with and I am looking forward to sharing this with you!

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Saturday, 29 November 2024
10am till 2pm
$220

SOLD OUT

You will learn to bake three popular Italian dolci; Tiramisu, Cannoli & Panforte.

Tiramisu – you will learn how to make this classic Italian treat from scratch! We will bake our own savoiardi biscotti, and make mascarpone, along with Italian meringue.

Cannoli – Sicilian Cannoli are such a wonderful treat! You will learn how to make the cannoli shell and fill with flavoursome fresh homemade bufala ricotta.

Panforte – a traditional Christmas sweet from Siena containing dried fruit & nuts.

This cooking class is mostly hands-on, with some demonstration.

Angela Palermo, founder & teacher of The Village Cooks, trained as a pastry chef and has worked for the likes of Rachel Grisewood, Sam Marineve, Lorraine Godsmark, and Andy Bunn. Her cooking and baking is heavily influenced by her Italian heritage and growing up in a family that grew its own food and created dishes from their own produce. Angela shares her love of simple, home-style cooking & baking with students at her cooking school, The Village Cooks, Sydney.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Saturday, 22 November 2025
10am till 2pm
$200

SOLD OUT

This is a Seasonal Spring Italian Lunch cooking class! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using spring produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; asparagus, broad beans, spring onions, peaches, nectarines, fennel, peas, mint, wild herbs, beetroot, spinach, artichokes, stone fruits and on and on the list goes. Spring is a favourite season of mine to cook and bake with and I am looking forward to sharing this with you!

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Sunday, 3 May 2025
10am till 2pm
$220

Angela is very excited to be continuing her series of Italian Regional cooking and baking workshops for 2025 to celebrate her Italian heritage!

Join me for a 3 course Sicilian inspired lunch. We will cook and bake 3 meals typical of the Italian region – Sicilia. My love of Italian cooking and baking steams from my southern Italian heritage, where both my parents hailed from the Italian region of Calabria. Whilst, I am very familiar with the Italian cuisine of the south, I have an interest in the traditional cuisine of all Italian regions – north, south, and everything in-between!

In this regional Italian cooking class of Sicily, we will commence with ‘Bruschetta Caponata’, then we will hand-make fresh ‘Busiate pasta con Pesto Trapanese‘ – so very typically Sicilian! To finish, we will treat ourselves to ‘Sfinci’ – Sicilian Doughnuts!

Join me for a wonderful day of cooking and baking Sicilian style!

This class has some demonstration & is mostly hands-on.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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MELBOURNE FOOD TOUR with Angela Palermo

Friday, 24-26 October 2025

SOLD OUT

I’m so excited to announce that I will be hosting a Melbourne Food Tour this coming October 2025! I have been dreaming of this Food Tour to Melbourne for many years, (I actually had one ready in early 2020, but COVID had other plans!). Well I’m back baby and have a great three days planned! It will be a cosy intimate group of 6 plus me! I will be your host, your guide, your cookery instructor (well for one class together), and your all-round good person! Ha! Melbourne is the next best thing to Italy in Australia for me and I’m so excited to share it with you!!

Let me share just a few things to expect on this Food Tour in Melbourne:
• Accommodation is booked in a brilliant designed home with desirable kitchen around the corner from South Melbourne Markets (see pics)! There are two room package options available- 2x one person private rooms and 2x shared rooms so gather your partner and/or friends. More details on these options and pricing to come.
• I will conduct a MARKET-TO-TABLE cooking class from our wonderful kitchen on our first day. We will walk just around the corner to South Melbourne Markets to purchase our produce then return to cook & bake together for our first evening dinner!
• I have another class planned for Day 2! This time with Paola Bacchia from @italyonmymind. We will make our way to Paola’s home for an afternoon baking of Apple Strudel! Oh what joy this will be!

I have lots more planned so if you would like to receive the full 3 day Itinerary plus accommodation details as well as package prices, please email me here at angela@thevillagecooks.com.au.

I look forward to sharing my Little Italy (Melbourne) with you!!!!

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: The Village Cooks Gift Vouchers are not redeemable for this event.

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Saturday, 10th October 2025

11:30am till 3:30pm

$250 (+ booking fee)

I am heading back to Soldiers Point, Port Stephens for a fourth Seasonal Italian Lunch at Bayhues with Fiona , JJ & Tara of Simpsons Cottage.

This time, I will be cooking & baking a Spring Italian Lunch!

Come and join us for a day full of great food and wine, meet some wonderful creatives and partake in some pasta making with our incredibly talented and passionate chef Angela Palermo. You walk away with a full belly and the skill to whip up the dish at home.

The day commences at 11.30am drifting through to 3.30pm at beautiful Bay hues in Soldiers Point, Port Stephens.

The tickets don’t last long, so grab yourself a seat at the table today.

BOOKINGS – Please click here to book you spot. Please contact Fiona Ward for further details.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: The Village Cooks Gift Vouchers are not redeemable for this event.

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Saturday, 27 September 2025
10am till 2pm
$200

SOLD OUT

This is a Seasonal Spring Italian Lunch cooking class! Join me as we create a 3-course authentic Italian lunch menu using spring produce. We have such a bounty to choose from; asparagus, broad beans, spring onions, peaches, nectarines, fennel, peas, mint, wild herbs, beetroot, spinach, artichokes, stone fruits and on and on the list goes. Spring is a favourite season of mine to cook and bake with and I am looking forward to sharing this with you!

There will be home-style cooking and baking involved, with lots of chatting, laughing and learning along the way. We will then sit outside (alfresco style) together to enjoy the fruits of our labour sampling authentic Italian fare with a glass (or two) of vino.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Saturday, 30 August 2025
10am till 2pm
$220

SOLD OUT

Join me for a 3 course Pugliese inspired lunch. We will cook and bake 3 meals typical of the Italian region – Puglia. My love of Italian cooking and baking steams from my southern Italian heritage, where both my parents hailed from the Italian region of Calabria.

Whilst I am very familiar with the Italian cuisine of the south, I do love the traditional cooking/baking from all the regions of Italy which I will explore in these Italian Regional cooking classes!

In this regional Puglia cooking class, we will start with Focaccia Barese con Burrata e Olive (from the Bari, Puglia), then we will make the popular pasta shape Orecchiette with a seasonal sauce (I hope to have cime di rapa growing in my garden for a typical Pugliese pasta sauce) , and to finish, we will bake the very popular Lecce treat called Pasticciotti (crema pasticceria with a hint of lemon which is encased with pastry and baked).

This class has some demonstration & is mostly hands-on.

TO BOOK USING GIFT VOUCHER: Please email angela@thevillagecooks.com.au with your contact details and voucher number. Angela will reply with booking confirmation or if extra payment is required.

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Saturday, 23 Auguts 2025

11am – 4pm

$265

SOLD OUT

I am returning to the glorious Glenmore House for An Italian Garden Lunch with Mickey Robertson! What a day it will be! Please read on for Mickey’s description of this special day!

As the lemons dangle temptingly on the tree just outside the kitchen window, and our fingers and toes endure the mid-winter chill, I’ve been daydreaming. As a result I am so very excited to invite you to a celebratory ITALIAN GARDEN LUNCH with ANGELA PALERMO on SATURDAY 23 AUGUST! It’s been several years since our last glorious Italian cooking workshop and feast with Ange which is far too long; and so…with the kitchen garden likely at peak productivity (think wigwams dripping with peas and burgeoning rows of plump things!) and with our hearts and tastebuds leaping and longing for spring, we though it time!

This one will be a little different to the last cooking workshops; and whilst we will get our hands on ingredients enough to require everyone to bring an apron for some collaborative pasta rolling and cooking around the big table in the Dairy (and Ange will answer your every ingredient and making and baking question), we thought to take this opportunity to simply give you a wonderful day out – filled with food and joy, and to celebrate the season as it morphs from deepest winter into spring.

Our feast will be a movable one – beginning in the kitchen garden, where we will wander and taste-test together, as Ange serves morsels of delight…our primo, from a table set under the apple tunnel. Then…we’ll all come inside for pasta rolling and your contribution towards our secondo, which we’ll enjoy along with our contorno and insalata at the long table in the loggia. Hmmm…and then to accompany our dolce and caffè? We have a little surprise…to get your feet tapping, your fingers clicking and perhaps even your hips swaying! Certainly a surprise to put a wide smile on all our contented faces…

And to add to add to the celebratory atmosphere, the food on our table will be held by colourful, handcrafted, artisanal ceramics from the L0 Scoglio Stromboli collection of heritage bowls(and perhaps the instigator of the range will join us – she does love an opportunity to roll pasta!).

TO BOOK – Please click here to book you spot. Please contact Mickey Robertson or Angela Palermo for enquiries.

GIFT VOUCHERS: The Village Cooks Gift Vouchers are not redeemable for this event.