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I’d decided to set myself a mini adventure with the objective to find and eat a tartiflette in the wild. A little crazy you may think but I think little and often adventures and trips keep you on your toes. Known as micro adventures, an actual thing yes, explained fantastically by Alastair Humpherys “A microadventure…

  Introducing the KCS’s wonderfully delicious gift guide for this Christmas. ‘Tis officially the season to start thinking about your favourite ones, so why not send them to us to brush up on their cookery knowledge? So that (at some point you hope) you can enjoy their newfound skills. We’ve put together this gift guide…

The story behind the breeds… Before Christmas James and I visited one of our suppliers, Marchants of Bethersden, the source of any meat you’d cook when you visit the cookery school. Why you ask, well we think it’s important to know where food is coming from, you cook with it and eat it but where…

Food and travel go hand in hand, anyone that says otherwise just doesn’t take their food seriously. A long weekend is an ideal opportunity to explore the corners of countries and cities. It’s enough time to eat your way through at least nine meals and that’s not even counting the snacks and drinks! This time…

Ever wondered how new classes suddenly appear on the class calendar? Usually, it’s after a lot of research, studying cookbooks and market research. Well…. that’s not quite the whole truth, it usually begins with one of us having just got back from a weekend trip abroad and being enamoured by the lingering tastes. Often this…

LIME PANNA COTTA WITH RHUBARB COMPOTE Ingredients for the panna cotta… 1 leaf of gelatine 200ml double cream 50ml milk 75g caster sugar zest and juice of 1 lime (2 moulds for the panna cotta) For the compote… 75g rhubarb 2 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp rum 1 tbsp water Method Soak the gelatine in cold…

The pure excitement of tasting and indulging in another culture’s cuisine is one of the most exciting things whilst away travelling or holidaying. That’s why I’m going to tell you all about the things I tried and tasted, many times on my Christmas trip to Morocco. Bread Spend just one day in Morocco and it…

This is an exciting one for us to write and shout about! As many of you know, either from being here with us or seeing the event online. On the 7th of December we opened our doors to you for an evening of all things festive! The aim of this evening was a charity raising…

A team day out doesn’t have to be about evaluating what Birkman colour you are all day, taking the leap of faith and falling backwards into someone’s arm or even building rafts. It can be a fulfilling day out of the office learning some new skills that are transferrable to your home and professional life….

Hello and welcome to the Kent Cookery School blog, we want to create this space as somewhere to share exciting news, new partnerships, new classes and let you in on a little bit more behind the school snippets of juicy information. In our first ever blog we have some very exciting news we want to…