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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!
A Quintessentially British Affair: Afternoon Tea
Book Ultimate Afternoon Tea Class at Cookery School
The history of Afternoon Tea
The concept of ‘afternoon tea’ first appeared in 1840 when Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, became hungry around four o’clock in the afternoon. Dinner was not until around eight in the evening, so the Duchess asked for a tray of tea, bread and butter and cake to be brought to her room during the late afternoon.
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World Chocolate Week
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.
Half Term in the Cookery School Kitchen – a special offer
Our Half Term Cookery Class will turn your teens from baked beans to brilliance!
And just like that the ground is littered with leaves and conkers, shops are filled with Christmas paraphernalia and pumpkins get their moment. We start to crave soups, stews and warm baked goods and half term is just around the corner.
Book two places on any class during the last week of October,
The Christmas Gift That Keeps on Giving
Cookery for Christmas – the most delicious of gifts
Cookery classes make the most creative Christmas gifts, that keep on giving. Why not try one gifting of the following classes…
Flavours of the Middle East have infiltrated our palates, cupboards and Saturday morning rituals over the last ten years, Our Modern Middle Eastern class inspires cooks to make food from the Levant at home.
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Christmas at Cookery School
Celebrate Christmas at Cookery School! Join us this December for our Christmas classes and learn to cook, bake and decorate for the festive season. Each class is a celebration of delicious Christmas food, tradition and festivity. There’s something for everyone including children with a penchant for holiday fun in the kitchen.
Christmas Baking from Around the World –
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New Austrian Strudel Masterclass
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 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.
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
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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Education, Education, Education (fun, fun, fun)
Inspiring, empowering, healthy, sustainable, upskilling and most of all FUN.
That’s the power of cookery education and we believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to learn to cook.
During half-term we hosted a puff pastry workshop for Antonia Lloyd, Women in the Food Industry Ambassador. The workshop was for her daughters and their friends and it was just brilliant,
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Corporate Chocolate Masterclass
Discover our Corporate Chocolate Masterclass at Cookery School at Little Portland Street.
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.
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 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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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Twenty
This is the last of session of our National Cooking Programme – which was an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 27 October 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Nineteen
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 20 October 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Eighteen
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 13 October 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Seventeen
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Fifteen
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 22 September 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Fourteen
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 15 September 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Thirteen
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 8 September 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Twelve
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 1 September 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Eleven
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 25 August 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Ten
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 18 August 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Nine
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 11 August 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Six
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 21 July 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Five
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 14 July 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Four
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 7 July 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Three
Photo Credit – School Food Matters
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 30 June 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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Recipes for National Cooking Programme – Week Two
Photo Credit – School Food Matters
We’re very excited to launch our National Cooking Programme – an ‘oven-ready’ programme of x20 FREE online interactive classes for teenagers wanting to learn to cook. Here is what we’ll be cooking on Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 5.30pm which will be livestreamed on Instagram and YouTube.
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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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