David Beckham playing cooking game

Jan 19, 2010, 10:21 GMT

David Beckham is learning how to cook.

The 34-year-old soccer star wants to be able to create pasta dishes from scratch so he can throw dinner parties in Milan where he is currently on loan to Italian team AC Milan from US club Los Angeles Galaxy.

He said: "I've joined a culinary school and I'm on a course that entails 120 hours of lessons and cooking.

"It's something I've always wanted to do. I've always loved cooking. Now I'm in Italy, I want to learn how to make amazing pasta.

"It's gone from a small ambition of wanting to learn how to make pasta to the extreme of doing this course professional chefs do. It's something I'm passionate about."

David is also keen to invite his friend, chef Gordon Ramsay round to try some of his new culinary treats.

He said in an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I did the first three hours the other day. I learned how to make fresh pasta, ragu, carbonara, fresh tomato sauce and I'm doing a risotto in a few days.

"I'd love to cook for Gordon and I definitely will one day."

However, David's wife Victoria Beckham is unlikely to be tucking into her husband's pasta creations.

The former Spice Girl's nutritionist Monica Grenfell said last month: "She's strict with herself. When she goes on business lunches she'll choose white fish and she'll often pick and things rather than have big sit down meals."