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Offering full day and half day cookery courses as well as private parties, corporate cookery & teambuilding sessions.
** Traveller's Choice Award 2025 Winner ** We offer a wide variety of cookery courses taught by our professional and friendly tutors using fresh, local produce. Whether you're a budding baker, want to learn how to make authentic Indian cuisine from scratch or just want to have fun
19/08/2026
We talk a lot about the school
and the food.
But here’s a little bit more
about the person behind it all.
The one who actually does the cooking.
And the teaching.
What would your ‘but’ be?
Drop it in the comments 👇
Stay sharp people.
07/08/2026
We get asked this a lot and we genuinely want to know the answer.
What's the one cooking skill you wish you had?
Drop it in the comments below, you might just be giving us our next class idea 👇
Five books that will really
change how you cook from the ground up.
Not necessarily the ones everyone recommends.
The ones that give you a great foundation for learning.
1. The Oxford Companion to Food
— Alan Davidson
The only food reference book you’ll
ever need. Every ingredient.
2. Larousse Gastronomique
The bible, both intimidating and essential
3. Ratio & The Flavour Thesaurus
Two books that teach you to think
like a cook and understand how a recipe it put together.
4. The Whole Fish — Josh Niland
Just a beautiful book, great imagery and inspiration
5. How I Cook — Ben Lippett
Honest, brilliant and genuinely useful
for the home cook who wants to get better.
Save this before your next
bookshop visit 📚
03/08/2026
Ten years of teaching in this kitchen and we’ve never once met a bad cook. We’ve met people who are scared of salt. People who decide a chicken is “probably done” on ‘ten more minutes at 180 should do it.’ People who bought the tweezers before they learned to hold the knife. Or the expensive BBQ before learning heat control.
The fix is salt, tasted and trusted. A thermometer, because “done” is a number, different for each ingredient. And the unglamorous, deeply satisfying graft of doing the basics until your hands know them better than your head does.
That’s it. That’s the whole secret. Everything else is garnish.
Save this for your next cook and confess in the comments: which one’s you? We promise not to judge 👇
Let’s only focus on best case scenarios. 🙏