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Read on for all the latest news and information on our cooking classes and courses. Find out about new classes, chef spotlights, behind the scenes insights and much more!

 

World Chocolate Week

Chocolate from Cookery School Chocolate Making Masterclass It’s World Chocolate Week which means we can discuss one of our favourite topics. At Cookery School we have one huge proviso when it comes to chocolate – it has to be 100% slave free. Sadly this is still a major issue for many chocolate brands and is why the chocolate that we use at Cookery School is always ethical.

Our favourite chocolate is Original Beans.

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New Austrian Strudel Masterclass

Austrian Strudel

Our new class celebrates the beautiful 17th Century Austrian dessert, the strudel.

The Viennese strudel is the star of the show when it comes to creating layer upon layer of the finest dough encasing a sweet seasonal fruit filling. We make our strudel dough with organic Shipton Mill flour, egg, melted butter and warm water, aiming for a delicate light and super stretchy dough.

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Midsummer Corporate Events

 

midsummer corporate events

Midsummer was a time of corporate partying at Cookery School at Little Portland Street and we hosted a good number of wonderful events this July.  What surprised and thrilled us was the fact that after each we had reviews from every company with whom we had worked.  Below are a selection of them.  It is worth pointing out that for most of them we provide only their quotes.

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Last Week in the Kitchen

WE HOSTED several corporate events who all chose Spanish and Italian menus.

WE COOKED delicious dim sum and pastry chef Maddy made sponge biscuits for tiramisu, aided by Louisa, our work experience student who has joined us as part of her school programme.

WE LEARNT that snake beans and long beans are the same thing. We bought them from two different shops and found that they were same ingredient in both cases!

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Cook more and cut back on plastic

Plastic Free July

It’s Plastic Free July and we remind ourselves that less than 10% of the plastic we’ve produced has been recycled (ever)! Time for a revolution and a plastic solution? We think so.

In fact, we think that cooking confidently is a big part of the solution because the more convenience foods, ready meals and takeaways we buy, the more packaging and plastics we consume.

Boost your kitchen confidence with our summer sale!

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Corporate Chocolate Masterclass

Discover our Corporate Chocolate Masterclass at Cookery School at Little Portland Street.

Corporate Chocolate Masterclass

When Cookery School started twenty years ago, a youthful aspiring chocolatier, Paul A Young, who had just left working as Head Pâtissier for Marco Pierre White, with ambitions to start a first rate chocolate business, joined us running our chocolate making classes.  The rest is history as Paul established himself a chocolatier par excellence with a now very distinguished career and many awards to bear this out.

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Why Cookery School is different

We have looked back over the past  twenty years and discovered that our original values still hold good at Cookery School at Little Portland Street.

Good Home Cooking

Our most important aim is to teach good home cooking. This is our core value. We do not do ‘trendy’ and follow the fads that are taking over social media.  We stick to a well trodden path, follow the science and from that emerges some of our classes.

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National Cooking Programme launches Summer 2021

Photo credit - School Food Matter Photo credit – School Food Matters

Cookery School at Little Portland Street’s ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook, commences Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 5.30pm for an hour every week on Instagram and YouTube.

There is universal agreement that kids in the UK are not being taught to cook and this is proving to be detrimental to their future health and well being.

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Covid-19 Safety Precautions

Since the arrival of the pandemic we have been working towards making the kitchens as Covid-19 secure as we can. Having opened safely in  September 2020 we have everything is in place for our re-opening on 17 May 2021!

We ask everyone coming to Cookery School to advise us if they have had a high temperature, developed Covid-19 symptoms or have been in contact with a person with Covid-19 symptoms in the last 14 days.

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Gain Comfort in Comfort Food

comfort food

Comfort food is food that provides a feeling of well-being, the dishes are typically high sugar or carbohydrate content and tend to be associated with childhood or home cooking. Not all comfort food is bad for you, our Founder Ros believes that homemade comfort food can be healthy as recipes can be easily altered for example reducing the salt content.

Comfort food favourites 

In the UK research has shown the simple and classic pizza is the number one comfort food!

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