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| Waitrose Food Illustrated...
"25 of the Best Cookery Courses"
Natasha Goodfellow |
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“We scour the planet for the very best”
“If cooking for more than two brings you out in a cold sweat, look no further than Orchards Cookery”
“In the homely kitchen of a Georgian farmhouse, Isabel and Lucy Bomford demystify the art of effortless entertaining”
“It's an intensive course but, thanks to Lucy's
easy style and tried-and-tested recipes stress and mess
don't get a look in. And since the setting is domestic
- with music on and plenty of chatter - the inevitable
successes are easy to replicate at home”
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| As seen on TV...
"Richard and Judy's Christmas Book Party Show" |
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Orchards Cookery staff and former students were invited to appear on Richard and Judy's Christmas Party Show
to review a selection of celebrity cookery books.
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| As seen on TV...
"The Gadget Show" |
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It was a pleasure to welcome The Gadget Show and Top TV chef and restaurateur Simon Rimmer to Orchards Cookery to test four ovens.
Click here to see how Simon Rimmer and Jon Bentley got on (filmed in May 2009)....
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| As seen on TV... "BBC 2's Working Lunch" |
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Featured live on BBC 2's Working Lunch the award winning daily business,
personal finance and consumer news programme. The school was introduced by
Angela Rippon and reported on by business correspondent Rob Pittam, who spent
the morning in the kitchen improving his culinary skills! The partners and
their students were then interviewed about the school and its success.
To see the report click on
"Scaling the Summits of Cookery"
and
"Being Enterprising"
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| The Weekend Telegraph...
"Cooking with Altitude"
Christopher Middleton |
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“It is not just the innocent
arts of baking and steaming that are being passed on here,
but the more worldly wise secrets of professional chalet
hosting…”
The article "Cooking with Altitude" may be found
by clicking
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| The Independent...
"Preparation for the piste"
Amy McLellan |
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“The Orchards School of Cookery takes rookie cooks and transforms them into competent chefs capable of producing a sophisticated four-course meal for a chalet-load of hungry skiers without even breaking a sweat…”
“… an investment that quickly yields a
return”
The article "Preparation for the piste" may be found
by clicking
here.
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| The Times...
"Time to get fresher with chef"
Nick Wyke |
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“A course to fast-track students from clueless to cool in the kitchen ensures a healthy start to life away from home…”
“The shiny clean, well-equiped kitchen is a hive of activity. Saucepans are bubbling with farm-fresh vegetables, golden chicken breasts sit ready to be sliced, a bunch of herbs from the old trough outside
the back door are being finely chopped and chocolatey aroma wafts from a briefly opened oven door. Timers buzz and James Blunt croons in the background. Eight freshers-to-be, feeling a blend of stress
and excitement, are applying the finishing touches to a three-course meal…”
The article "Time to get fresher with chef " may be found by clicking
here. |
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| Daily Mail...
"Leaping the Gap - Master Alpine Cuisine as a Chalet
Host"
Toby Welch |
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“The Orchards School of Cookery has an excellent track record when it comes to producing and placing potential chalet hosts… they have 100 per cent record in placing their graduates”
“…they provide you with all of the culinary skills and insider knowledge you need to be a top notch, efficient chalet host” |
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| The English Garden...
Tamsin Westhorpe, Editor, June 2010 |
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We've had a very successful reader event at The Orchards Cookery School. Readers enjoyed a day of cooking in the schools kitchens. I arrived at 6pm to enjoy a walk round the schools garden and to join the group for supper. This was a supper that they had cooked. It was a treat with starters of chicory with stilton and walnuts, drizzled with a little oil (wonderful), followed by soups (two types in one bowl), then salmon and freshly picked asparagus. To finish, a dessert featuring blueberries and then there was home-made fudge. A great day was had by all and I was astounded as to how much they fitted into the day.
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| The Duke of Edinburgh's
Award... "Access Organisations" Debbie Felstead |
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We are an access organisation for
the residential section of the Gold Award. Our courses
qualify as a residential project.
“The kitchen has a very welcoming and relaxed atmosphere
leaving you in no doubt that the students really enjoy
the experience”. Debbie Felstead
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| Class Magazine...
"Can't Cook? Won't Cook?"
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“Whether you're planning a season as a chalet cook or need a crash course
in the culinary arts before heading off to university, what better way to get over your fear of the
kitchen than to join one of the popular courses at the Orchards School of Cookery…”
“A constant stream of gap year students arrives at the school, eager to learn new skills, to meet
new people and to sample the fantastic food” |
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| Worcester Evening
News... "What a chalet good idea"
Becky Fisher |
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“…passing on their expert tips to a constant stream of gap year students desperate to be groomed to perfection”
“It is these little gems of information - as well as learning how to plan and cook a menu of dishes to impress even the most finicky food critic - that students, who have travelled from as far as Australia, are willing to pay to get their hands on”
“...after just five days, they have learnt how to master mouth-watering delights”
“Armed with a bulging Chalet Cook's file and goodie bag packed with time-saving pieces of equipment, the chalet hosts are then packed off ready to take tackle their first season with the perfect routine. This ensures they have plenty of time to do what they went out there to do in the first place - ski”
The article "What a chalet good idea" may be found
by clicking
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| BBC1’s "Houses
Behaving Badly" |
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The Orchards School of Cookery was featured in the
first programme of the new series. The school was asked
to train Jacqueline, who had described herself on National
television as the worst cook in Britain! She told the
viewers about her day at Orchards Cookery “Lucy
is an absolutely incredible chef, very patient….
she taught me some really superb recipes which I can’t
wait to try on the family”
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