In a special guest post, Kaushy Patel of the multi award winning restaurant Prashad talks about her Gujarati cooking secrets from her Times Top 40 Indian vegetarian cookbook. Cooking is a gift that is within everyone’s reach. Just remember four simple rules: Fresh and fantastic: This is my mantra. Always buy the freshest, best quality [...]
Release your inner chef! Whether you want to learn to cook from scratch or polish your cooking skills, The Cooking School offers the very best culinary experience in the heart of the Yorkshire pennines. Available for individuals, educators and businesses in our beautifully designed, state of the art teaching facilities. Our blog gives you the latest tips and mouth watering recipes from our range of cooking courses to give you a taster. All profits from The Cooking School go to our Focus on Food Campaign which promotes teaching children to cook in UK schools.
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The Chefs’ School at The Viaduct Launch Day
What a great day we had yesterday for the official launch of The Chefs’ School at The Viaduct. Throughout the day, we had tasters of the new menu which will launch later this month – including Butternut Squash Soup and Chicken Caesar Salad. All customers also recieved a ginger biscuit, cooked by the apprentices with [...]
Meet Our Apprentice Amy
Amy Gray-Barker has just turned 17 and comes from a family of food and hospitality enthusiasts. She has experience of working cafes and restaurants already but wanted to develop her skills in a different learning environment. What school did you attend? I was actually home schooled, but did spend some time in school where [...]
Meet Our Apprentice – Alice
17 year old Alice Fox had a taste for cooking from an early age, inspired by her father’s love of cooking, and likes Heston Blumenthal’s experimental style of cooking. What school did you attend? Trinity Academy Halifax What did you study/enjoy most? Originally I was studying Health and Social Care, we did some cooking [...]
Meet our Apprentice Hannah
16-year-old Hannah Poulter, one of our apprentices started out wanting to be a teacher, but a love of food and a thirst for learning in a practical environment found her under the tutelage of our team at the Chefs’ School at The Viaduct, a venture where breakfasts, lunches and takeaways for thousands of employees and [...]
Meet our Apprentice Chama
17-year-old Chama Mwamba has been an apprentice at The Cooking School at Dean Clough for 10 months and has just moved into The Chefs’ School at The Viaduct for a change of pace and working style to boost his learning even further. The Chefs’ School at The Viaduct, is a venture where breakfasts, lunches and [...]
New Venture at The Viaduct Café in Dean Clough leads the way for Apprenticeships in Professional Cookery
News that The Cooking School at Dean Clough has taken over The Viaduct Café in Dean Clough is welcome to the ears of aspiring chefs in the area. Many of the employees under the new ownership will be apprentices, given the opportunity to learn how to cook with a view to entering full-time employment in [...]
Blog for us!
We have courses throughout the year with a wide range of people on them and we get some fantastic feedback on the courses. Have you been on one of our courses? Do you have a blog? Would you be willing to blog about your experience and share it on our blog… or simply write a [...]
Job Advert – Chef Tutor/Assessor
Chef Tutor/Assessor £22,000 to £24,000 per annum Full Time The Cooking School at Dean Clough is offering apprenticeship training starting from September 2012. We require an experienced and qualified Chef Tutor/Assessor to join its team and be both responsible for assessing apprentices in the workplace and for assessing and mentoring apprentices in-house. This unique opportunity for [...]
Wine and Food Matching
In a special guest post, Laura Kent of the Yorkshire Wine School talks about food and wine matching. In my experience, people who enjoy a glass of wine tend to be amongst the most passionate about good food: folk who love to cook up a storm in the kitchen often like to indulge in a [...]
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