I have recently returned from my spring break FYE study abroad called Let’s Eat in Italy and Write About It Too where we took cooking classes and learned about food in Spoleto, Italy, and I miss the amazing food and the trip already! My favorite activity that we did during this trip was definitely our cooking class with Chef Andrea, a famous chef from Florence who worked in New York as the Italian delegation to the United Nations and opened his own restaurant in a 15th-century house in Castel Ritaldi called Locanda Rovicciano. Chef Andrea taught us how to make amazing food using very simple ingredients including eggplant parmigano, guinea fowl sautéed with vegetables, and ravioli filled with ricotta and spinach. He clearly has a strong passion for cooking and likes to try new recipes to expand his skills to keep himself engaged in his work. One of the new foods that he has been recently working on and allowed us to help make during our cooking class was bread which he makes into focaccia, loaves, and rolls. The focaccia bread that was topped with fresh olives grown on his property, and roasted peppers were perhaps my favorite thing we made that day, even though it was not technically part of the meal. He also told us about how he tries to defy the laws of cooking by making the impossible, such as his homemade chocolates where he combines only chocolate and water to make a creamy piece of chocolate that has no milk, but melts in your mouth as if it does. During our cooking class at his restaurant, there was nine of us students with Chef Andrea and his sous chef Vincenzo, working on different parts of the meal at the same so that we all got to experience cooking many different things from making the pasta dough to chopping the head off of the guinea fowl. Chef Andrea would demonstrate to us how to make each aspect of the amazing four-course meal, like how to chop the vegetables and get the air out of the ravioli and then we jumped straight into each step ourselves and took over the cooking while he guided us. I had an amazing time learning techniques and recipes from Chef Andrea and thoroughly enjoyed all the food that we made that day and I know that this day will be one that I never forget!