Cook's Certificate in Food & Wine

This very intensive six week professional cooking course provides the fullest possible culinary training, for knowledge that will last a lifetime.

Participants leave us with a Level 3 Certificate from OCN London and the confidence to take steps towards a career in food, starting work as a chef in a professional kitchen, doing seasons cooking on a yacht or in a ski chalet, catering for dinner parties or simply enhancing their own cooking repertoires.

Who is this course suitable for?

The course is suitable for all ages and abilities, for anyone with an interest in cooking who wants to develop their existing skills and repertoire. The intensive structure will equip pupils with the knowledge, skills and confidence to go into small-scale catering, yacht or chalet cooking or work in professional kitchens.

The course aims:

- To make students into competent cooks so that they can undertake cooking for decent sized groups.
- To make students understand the principles behind cooking so that this learning can be extended to other recipes, cuisines and environments.
- To allow students to feel relaxed about producing food that may currently seem overwhelmingly difficult. By the end of six weeks they will be able to approach major cooking tasks with confidence.
- To teach students to plan, budget and think ahead. If they have done this correctly, shopped and have good recipes, the rest will follow.

Hours:
The course runs Monday – Friday from 8.45am – 4.30pm for six weeks with extended classes on certain days. At lunch time participants sit down the Cookery School table to taste the food that has been made that day.