Learn how to make pasta like a tiny Italian Nonna (or Nonno). Learn how to master the art of crafting homemade pasta and ravioli. Grab your favorite person, Valentine or Galentine and join us for a special pasta making class in our Italian Cooking School kitchen - Il Laboratorio/The Cooking Lab by Melina's Fresh Pasta
Come learn how to make pasta from Carmella - the owner of Melina's Fresh Pasta.
All classes are hands-on and we eat what we make!
Menu:
Garganelli Pasta - Pistachio Pesto & crispy mortadella*
Burrata Ravioli - Tomato Cream Sauce
Mini Cannoli - homemade cannoli cream
All participants receive a Melina’s Fresh Pasta Recipe Book via email after the class with the recipes from the class.
*Can be modified for Vegetarians
If you have a gift card, please call (919)403-3663 to register.
Carmella Alvaro, Owner & Pasta Maker, Il Laboratorio & Melina’s Fresh Pasta
“Authentic Italian food is about the simple preparation of a few fresh, local, high quality ingredients. I am excited to share this tradition with you.”
My parents, Giuseppe and Giuseppa, came to America with my sister, Rita, and brother, Rocco, forty years ago from Sinopoli, a small town near Reggio, Calabria, on the southern tip of Italy. I was born in Syracuse, NY a few years later and was lucky enough to grow up in the local close knit Italian American community watching my Mom cook meals from scratch, using ingredients my Dad grew in his backyard garden. After leaving home, I missed the homemade Italian food I grew up with so I took a trip to Italy to learn how to make fresh pasta. When I returned I founded Melina’s Fresh Pasta in 2010 and Il Laboratorio - An Italian Focused Cooking Class Kitchen - in 2024.