WHERE WE ARE
15b Little Portland Street
London
W1W 8BW
Our premises are very close to Oxford Circus tube station, at the end of Little Portland Street closest to Regent Street.
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ABOUT COOKERY SCHOOL
Cookery School’s aim is to take people back to honest, homely, delicious cooking. The focus is on demystifying cooking techniques, removing jargon and bringing back solid cooking skills, using high quality, primarily organic, responsibly sourced ingredients.
At Cookery School it has always been about the food. Using the best teachers who understand the Cookery School way of teaching the aim is to make learning how to cook good food with confidence as accessible as possible. The school’s expert teachers offer fantastic knowledge on how to cook confidently and source responsibly and seasonally in your own kitchen. In addition to single classes and short courses, there’s a professional accredited six-week Cook’s Certificate course, perfect for anyone considering a career in food.
Even prior to the inception of Cookery School, the school’s founder, Rosalind, has been fervently passionate about sustainability and devoted to promoting and improving cookery education with a focus on sustainable food and diets for the future. Sustainability is not just a buzzword but runs through the veins of the school, from sourcing top quality, seasonal, mostly organic ingredients, to running the kitchens on renewable energy, the school does everything possible to minimise its impact on the planet.
OUR FOUNDER
In 2003 Rosalind Rathouse decided to set up her own Cookery School. What makes her qualified to run a Cookery School? The answer is twofold: her 50 years of teaching experience both in secondary schools and in her own study-skills practice, plus her passion for food and cooking, which led to founding her first food business in the 1980s: Piemaker, making and supplying wholesale pies and cakes to the likes of Harrods, Waitrose and the Orient Express.
With the decline in people passing down home cooking through the generations, in 2003 Rosalind decided to combine her enthusiasm for teaching and her love of food to open Cookery School at Little Portland Street. The lasting principles of classic, simple home cooking are principles embedded in the school’s ethos even today. Rosalind feels very strongly that proper teaching can enthuse even the most unconfident cook. By 2008, the school was thriving, with fully booked classes, courses and corporate events gaining in popularity, so Rosalind took on a second, much larger, kitchen in the same building.
With Rosalind’s knowledge and experience, she has over the years been called upon by the press – particularly the BBC as they are in such close proximity – for her opinion and expertise.
To get a feel for the kitchens, have a look at our video below:
