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Kitchen help in Agricucina Toscana

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The experience

We are a small agriturismo that offers meals to our guests, if you have a passion for cook this is your place!

We are looking for someone mainly to help us cookig for the staff and baking bread. Also harvesting ingredients from our kitchen garden, making teas and soaps from our land, and thinking of creative ways to present it.

Meri, the sweetest chef ever, will give you an introdution of the ingredients we use and our delicious bread recipe.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate Italian

Over 25 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are a family of people from around the world. If you join us as a volunteer, you'll become part of that family. We eat together, laugh together, and work hard together.
Things are always changing - guests change their plans, something goes wrong with a tool, weather turns bad - so you need to be good with flexibility and adapting on the fly.
But this is not a high-stakes kitchen where stress is a main ingredient. Our kitchen feels calm, patient, loving, and healthy.

Activities & Shift

Each week we will look at the variety of retreats, dinners booked, cooking classes, and other food related activities for that week and together we will plan your schedule.
In some cases, you'll have a chance to do the work independently. In other cases, you'll be working directly with Meri, the head and heart of our kitchen.
While experience in a kitchen is very useful, a love for food and attention to detail is more important.