London Olympics - We would rather cook!!

With the eyes of the world on the London Olympics we wondered whether anyone would have time to spend at our cooking school! Well the answer is a resounding yes. We have students starting today for a full week's programme of fine dining learning how to create wonderful gourmet dishes to reproduce at home. This is not as surprising as it might at first seem given the extraordinary interest in good food and wine around the world and the fact that more people then ever enjoy the fun of home cooking for their friends and relatives. It's all very well having a beautiful kitchen but if you have never learned  to cook how can you put on a show? Masterchefs often like to exhibit the charms of the ancient magicians implying that they and they alone have the ability to work the magic of gourmet food. Yes of course someone with a classic French gastronomic education along with a lifetime of work creating great food in some of the world's best restaurants will have great expertise and knowledge. But there is a wonderful simplicity to great food. Our students will be taken through the process of creating 37 individual classic dishes over the course of five days. With three course lunches and four course dinners to prepare to Michelin standard, there is a lot of hands on preparation and learning to be done. Adults learn by doing and so what better method than actually working through the process and methods to produce a sensational lunch and dinner each day.  All this using good quality local food and making the best of ones own resources to ensure an economical nutritious discipline holds in the kitchen.We endeavour to ensure all our students are equipped to return home and reproduce those wonderful dishes for their family and friends having had a wonderful holiday in the process.  Once students have those skills and knowledge they carry it with them for the rest of their lives. They can also pass it on to their children and grandchildren. That is as important a legacy as those of the Olympic games don't you think!?