10:00am to 4:00pm - Saturday 27th June 2026 - Cheltenham

Focaccia and savoury bakes

Treat Dad this Father’s Day to a hands-on celebration of Italian savoury baking – perfect for pizza lovers and focaccia fanatics alike!

This Father’s Day, join me for a class dedicated to bold, rustic Italian flavours and timeless baking traditions – an ideal gift for dads who want to up their pizza-making game. We will learn how to make the focaccia that got me my very first Hollywood handshake. We will be making some traditional piadine, a flatbread from Emilia Romagna, and Cecina, a chickpea flour flatbread ubiquitous in Tuscany and Liguria. We will then dive into the masterpiece of my hometown: tiella, a stuffed savoury pie that has fed generations of fishermen and land workers in Gaeta, and that has now become the most coveted and sophisticated family meal. Come hungry – and ready to bake!

The chef

An engineer and researcher by trade, Giuseppe grew up in a family of passionate bakers, where food was the prime topic of conversation. He inherited from his dad, a professional chef, the love for everything cooked or baked. Winning the Great British Bake Off in 2021 sparked off his ambition to share his family gastronomic knowledge far and wide.

After contributing to the show’s cookbook “A Bake For All Seasons” in 2021, he published his own, “Giuseppe’s Italian Bakes” in 2022, which featured in Waterstones’ The Best Books of 2022: Food & Drink, and was listed in Diana Henry’s Autumn 2022 Best Cookbooks in The Telegraph.

For his second book, “Giuseppe’s Easy Bakes”, published in 2023, he focussed on quick, accessible bakes; all, of course, unapologetically Italian. Both Italian Bakes and Easy Bakes became the fastest selling new release on Amazon.