Perfect preparation and sublime flavours mean delicious results when you spend a day at this cooking academy! This highly-regarded cookery school in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire opens the doors to a whole world of cuisine, offering small group lessons in a home-from-home setting.
The cooking academy is Kumud Gandhi's creation and she, along with her fellow tutors, are all incredibly passionate and gifted cooks. But that's just the half if it. Not only are they all highly skilled in the kitchen, they are also fab teachers. The setting helps set the scene too, with lessons at the cooking academy taking place in the large, very stylish domestic kitchen. It's homely, with that modern farmhouse feel, stunning granite work surfaces and an outlook capable of distracting you from your workstations - the gardens are gorgeous!
The school's philosophy for food is fascinating. Cooking is seen as mix of science and alchemy, where blending and combining flavours, aromas and spices leads to delicious dishes. We're sure Kumud's family's background as chemists and spice merchants in India has influenced her cookery academy ethos of good, tasty cuisine for all.
Striving to use locally sourced, in season products that are organic wherever possible, they all firmly believe that the basis for making sophisticated dishes in a simple way is in using good ingredients. And indeed, whether you're already a bit of curry connoisseur, love your dim sum dishes, or actually just want to see if you can cook at all (one of the most popular features on the beginner's course is how to cook poached eggs - a true art form!), there's a lesson on the menu for you at Rickmansworth.
The cookery school has a full and rich programme of one day courses and your voucher is valid for all the ones we have listed below in the full details.
Imagine yourself on a wander down the Ramblas in Barcelona on the Spanish Tapas lesson, discover the ying and yang of flavours in Vietnamese cuisine, plunge into the seas on a fish course, or get folding your flaky on the pastry course. A special mention for the nutritional class that shows healthy can be delicious and a vegetarian workshop to prove no meat doesn't mean bland! If you love food you'll love this cooking academy, it's as simple as that.
