The Bertinet Kitchen Cookery School

Using a knife properly is the key skill of a good cook. This hands on class with Richard Bertinet gives you a firm foundation for preparing ingredients and a chance to showcase your new skills in a host of delicious dishes.

You will learn how to create beautiful seasonal chocolate truffles, some flavoured chocolate bark and nut rochers. The last part of the class will be about how to pack and gift wrap your wonderful creations.

The class will include recreating some of Julie’s stunning pastry designs from her new book. There will be plenty of opportunity to practice with both free style and template designs onto tarts that you can take home at the end of the day. Julie has also promised to demo some as yet unseen techni...

Join Richard Bertinet for his classic hands on 5 day baking class. Begin the week with An Introduction to Breadmaking on Monday followed by French Breads, Italian Breads, Dark & Sweet and Slowdoughs & Sourdoughs on the following days.

The menu will include Romanian covrigi (or little breads) and Ciorb? de salat? (lettuce broth) topped with omelette and made with a traditional bors, a sour soup and a national dish.  Also included is Ostropel de Oltenia (chicken in garlic tomato sauce with polenta dumplings)  Dovlecci pané (c...