Tuscan cooking schools: La Villa Cucina & Mama Margaret

Whoops! It looks like Umberto's cooking school is fully booked for the dates of our honeymoon! So we are looking for an alternate Tuscan cooking school. In addition to Villa di Riboia and The International Kitchen Cooking School, we are considering La Villa Cucina and Mama Margaret & Friends' cooking tour of Tuscany. Mama Margaret is Margaret Cowan. She lives in Vancouver and has also written a cool book on Italian Cooking holidays, Your Guide to 133 Decadent Cooking Holidays in Italy.

We are looking for the following:

• 6-10 days
• All inclusive
• Small class size (less than 10)
• Emphasis on cooking classes, market excursions, visits to olive groves, wineries, farms and cheese making places, not churches and other non food related touristy stuff!
• Driven around by our guides in a mini-van (We don't like buses). I've driven around in Italy enough to realize that I don't want to drive there on my honeymoon if I can afford not to.
• The guides are Italians who have lived in Italy for their formative years. Not Italian Canadians or Italian Americans who grew up abroad! We want to learn about recipes and ingredients that a native would know and that we can't find in Canada in addition to the things that are easily obtainable in Canada. We don't speak Italian but we don't mind having interpreters!

If anybody knows of such a school, please let us know by emailing us or by starting a discussion here!