We met Lori for the first time last year. Her warmth, hospitality and knowledge was so fantastic that we’re returning this year to live in San Martino in Pensilis for a couple of months to explore our ancestral regions of Molise and Abruzzo. Grazie, Lori… see you soon.
Living Italian – April 2017
We took a cooking class earlier this month with Molise Cuisine. It was a really fun and interesting day. Lori, Mario and the others at Cantine D’Uva were great. Today, I decided to try the skills and recipes we used and made homemade Cavatelli in a pork based sauce. It was delicious! Thanks Lori for a wonderful time. I hope to make fresh pasta more regularly at home. I definitely recommend this experience to anyone who might be in Molise. We will for sure be back!
Bill Cotgreave – March 2017
Fantastic experience! I cannot thank Lori enough for her generous and helpful attitude, her class was really great and she went above and beyond to accommodate my group which due to unfortunate circumstances had to change in numbers but Lori was not phased and handled the changes with efficiency and a smile. Thank you for the wonderful tours to San Martino in Pensilis and the beautiful wine estate. I highly recommend this cooking class and will definitely return to this area and to try one of Lori’s other tours and classes, a real find.
Laura Joseph – August 2016
Thank you for a fabulous dinner tonight! You went above and beyond! Wonderful food and company! 🙂
Erin Kleh – July 2016
Dear Lori,
Tom and I want to express our great appreciation to you and others working with Molise Cuisine for the wonderful time we and our relatives had in Molise recently. We are especially grateful for your efforts in organizing fun and informative experiences over a time period which included an Italian holiday and for fulfilling a couple of special requests beyond our expectations. We believe that the special efforts you take to accommodate your guests will serve you well in the future. As you know we will shortly be guests of Molise Cuisine again with different relatives in July. We wish you the best of success.
Tom and Pamela Gieleghem
Hi Lori,
Two weeks with Molise Cuisine Traditional Cooking and Wine Tours just wasn’t enough! Time to book another trip. YOU MUST TAKE A TOUR. PERSONALIZED TO PERFECTION.
Carmela Pecone – New York
October 4th, 2017
From the moment we started to book our trip owner and operator Lori De Sanctis was warm and accommodating. She gave me tips from what to pack to customizing our tour to visit the small town my father grew up. It is obvious that Lori loves what she does and the region.
As a first time traveler to Italy and not knowing the language, Lori did a fantastic job of translating and teaching us the language. She welcomed me, my 14 yr old son and my mother with open arms and made us feel like family. Lori did everything in her power to accommodate all of our needs even arranged for a car to drive my mother who can’t walk well. She was very knowledgeable about the region and was constantly adding to each destination.
For a week we felt like we were part of the town and not just a tourist. The food was as amazing as the sights we visited. Celebrity Chef Nicola Vizzarri, with the help of Lori taught us amazing dishes easy enough to cook at home. Lori and her staff were amazing and I can’t wait to rebook with her. I recommend Molise Cuisine to anyone and everyone of all ages. It was truly an amazing experience! Thank you and miss you Lori!
Had a wonderful day of truffle hunting with Lori and cheecho the truffle hunting dog. It was a fantastic experience. The lunch was great and the tour of the truffle lab was amazing. Also our tour guide Lori did a fantastic job. Would recommend this highly to anyone interested in truffles.
John Alpizar
06, 2019
Agnone Italy. We toured a famous Cheese making cellar, Caseficio Di Nucci, 11 generations of producing a non pasturized pulled curd cheese called caciocavallo. One of the 3 siblings and future owners was our lovely guide Antonia. Amazing family and cheese. Next, we toured a famous Bell makers foundry, Pontifica Fonderia Marinelli. Second oldest family-run business in the world. Bells are fascinating. Got a small concert from their famous bell tuner. Our wonderful guide Lori De Sanctis took us also for another amazing 3 hour lunch at this gorgeous gem of a restaurant in Agnone, Italy. And last a quick stop at a famous Copper product makers shop, La Ramera Di Franco Gerbasi. Making me rethink my cooking and water containers. This was all possible thank you Lori De Sanctis with her company Molise Cuisine Traditional Cooking & Wine Tours for organizing our wonderful day.
Kelly Kinnaman – Edge Miami Florida
18/07/2019
Simply the Best .
Loriana is passionate of the Region of Molise , has a big heart to welcome you and instantly make you “Famiglia” . She strives to make your time a memory you will never forget .
Antony e Diana
Custom tours and personal service! I was very excited about this trip but it turned out better than I ever could have imagined!
Angie Luciani
08/2019
Pros: We had a wonderful time in this little known part of Italy!! We saw quaint hilltop villages, Roman ruins, beautiful mosaics, castles, beaches, awesome museums, oxen races! and scenic views everywhere we went!!! And the food–I cant say enough how much we enjoyed the cooking classes and the meals at the restaurants and winery. I have never had such heavenly food before!! Chef Vizzarri’s classes and recipes made cooking seem easy and definitely replicable. Such an incredible holiday!!
Cons: Some days the heat was stifling…but nothing that a sunhat and an aperitif couldn’t fix!
Overall impression: Perfect
Accommodation & facilities: Perfect
Food: Perfect
Location: Perfect
Value for money: Perfect
Quality of activity: Perfect
Julie Morrison from Canada
September 9th, 2019
My wife and I spent a wonderful week with Lori and her Molise Cuisine team. They were outstanding and made us feel at home from day 1. We experienced so many wonderful things, tastes and wines. Swimming in the Adriatic by grottos, dancing under the stars by the sea, seeing beautiful cities/countrysides/islands, even an emotional visit to my Nonno’s home city and tasting delicious wines and foods (including cooking lessons from a five star chef on the beach) just to name a few. It was a fun filled memorable week for us. We would not hesitate to recommend Molise Cuisine to friends and associates to have insure a great time in Italy.
Rick Sestile
09/2019
molisecuisine what a lucky find !
My daughter, granddaughter and myself were looking for something “fun” and something we could do together, just us girls on our trip to San Martino in Pensili , in Molise. I found the website for this cooking class and thought what a wonderful idea ! Something we can do as a family and the best part was learning to cook something local from the village where my grandparents came from !!!
We were invited to come to Lori’s house on Thursday, June 1, 2023 for our cooking class !
Lori is a kind, warm and very entertaining teacher ( and I might add VERY Patient ! )
We learned to make homemade pasta, sauce ( I say sauce NOT GRAVY ), meatballs, braciole. After the cooking, came the EATING ! Lots of food, wine and laughter !
Granddaughter ( who is 13 ) loved the cooking, but when she learned that Lori is also an Elvis Presley fan that topped off the day !
Granddaughter enjoyed the cooking so much she asked if we could do it again next year. So, I guess I see another cooking class with Lori in our future !
It was wonderful making a new friend and look forward to doing this again !
Warm Regards
Jan-Marie Stroh
Everything about the trip was fantastic! Lori was amazing and she was able to make sure that we did everything on the trip (the Bell Foundry, Cheese tour, wine and olive oil tasting, and the Tremiti Islands)! It was a wonderful experience!
I wrote up a few paragraph review of the trip and talked about the highlights! I am adding it to this email! My mom and I were so happy with every single part of the trip.
Our trip with Lori was fantastic. She was a gracious host and tour guide around her wonderful town! She gave us first-hand experiences into the life of the people of Molise and Termoli.
We started our trip after a long day of traveling and we were picked up by Lori and taken to our hotel 3-4 hours away from Rome’s airport. She told us about the towns we passed and explained the history and culture of the areas. When we got to the hotel, she let us rest and then took us out to a wonderful dinner with her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren. We were thrown right into the middle of family life and it was very welcoming.
Our cooking classes were held at her house and everything was wonderful! We made family recipes, drank amazing wine, and had wonderful and pleasant conversations. She took us to all her favorite restaurants and cafes for dinners and breakfasts.
We had a little problem with the weather but Lori made sure that we had the best experience we could given that our daily schedule changed due to rain/storms. She was able to get everything the tour promised us. My mother and I were so grateful that she put in so much effort to make sure that we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. When my mom first landed, she had some eye irritation from the smoke from the wildfires in Canada and Lori made sure that we were able to get the eye drops that she needed so she could enjoy the rest of the trip.
We will definitely be planning another trip/tour with my sisters and sister-in-law with Lori! It was the best way for us to experience small town Italian life!
Sarah Klass
