Other Experts

Claudio Bincoletto is an Italian chef, ethno-botanist and expert on wild food, taking our foraging classes, as well as our Italian Charcuterie class.  Originally from Fossolta di Piave near Venice, Claudio began collecting herbs for local herbalists and restaurants as a child.

Chef and author Maria Elia learned to cook in her family’s Greek restaurant where her palate was honed from an early age. Born in Richmond in Surrey, she eventually left home to explore the world, on a mission to seek out distinctive flavours and textures along the way, during which time she also spent a summer working with culinary maestro, Ferran Adria at El Bulli, in Girona, Spain.

Paolo Arrigo is the founder of Seeds of Italy and author of 'From Seed to Plate'.  He was bought up in the Italian way, in the garden, in the kitchen and at the table.  He shares his immense knowledge of how to sow and grow beautiful vegetables and the amazing diversity of seeds available to him through Seeds of Italy in his master classes at Thyme