Comprehensive cookery class reviews.
Edinburgh New Town Cookery School is a serious place, for people who seriously want to up their game in the kitchen. But don’t think that means it isn’t fun – attending a class here is enormously enjoyable. The location in the heart of town means a visit to the school also fits perfectly into a ... Read more »
There’s little more comforting than a steaming bowl of pasta with pesto or ragu, and parmesan shaved generously over the top. In fact a quick survey of friends revealed few who don’t have pasta at home every month if not every week; so firmly has it become one of our kitchen staples. But it’s not ... Read more »
The Waitrose Cookery School at Salisbury sits within a large branch of the supermarket. The fishbowl nature of the space – with large windows facing into the store’s in-house cafe and out to the car park outside – is a little discombobulating at first but we quickly learn to ignore the curious shoppers who peer ... Read more »
If ever there were an award for the most magnificent setting for a cookery school, The Carlton School of Food would surely be a shoe-in. The school is housed within Carlton Towers, a private stately home as sumptuous as any I’ve seen. Home to Lord and Lady Gerald Fitzalan Howard, Carlton Towers dates from the ... Read more »
Ready to get started, 12 eager students hop onto stools arranged around an island within the large and bright custom-built school kitchen. Rachel Demuth, our class tutor for the day, starts by reminding us that “India is a huge country with thousands of different recipes and different ways of cooking“. Key to the cuisine is ... Read more »
Who doesn’t love a freshly baked French pastry for breakfast? Flaky, buttery croissants, pillowy brioche with jam or perhaps a pain au chocolat if you’re feeling decadent. In my house this usually means an early morning walk to the nearest bakery but today I’m learning how to make these breakfast delights for myself. Located in ... Read more »
It’s not often you arrive to a cookery class to an entire pig’s head laid out on the counter accompanied by a bowl of trotters, a liver and a bag of pig’s blood. But Catalan Pig Day is not your typical class. This unusual lesson is run by Rachel McCormack, an accidental expert in Catalan ... Read more »
I visited Colombia about thirty years ago on a family holiday that also took us to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Though I still have memories of Bogotá – I remember the statue of Simon Bolivar in Plaza de Bolivar, the flamboyant Iglesia del Carmen and being driven around the old town areas – there’s ... Read more »
Pete and I have quickly become regular visitors to Yijo Restaurant since our first visit just a couple of months ago. Head chef Jun Pyo Kwon serves up a delicious, authentic and very reasonably priced menu in this unassuming neighbourhood restaurant, just by Central Finchley tube station. You may have tried Jun Pyo’s cooking before, ... Read more »
Four years ago a course at Billingsgate Seafood Training School changed my life. If that seems like it might be an exaggeration, rest assured that it really isn’t because, in a roundabout kind of way, it lead to me finally making it to Japan, a country I’d long yearned to visit. That’s a story for ... Read more »
The Place of Onions, in old Lille. After last night’s rainstorm the intense sticky heat has broken and today is cool, breezy, fresh… I love it! A drop of… [more]
We went to Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at The Void this morning, an amazing VR experience where we got to be Rebel Alliance members going undercover as… [more]