UK Cookery School Awards 2014
Looking to Cook’s 3rd annual
awards to find the nation’s best cookery school have launched for 2014.
There are now hundreds of
cookery schools in the UK offering an impressive range of specialist classes.
Our awards aim to highlight and reward the very best.
As the independent experts in
the field, and the only organisation that regularly reviews cookery
schools, Looking
to Cook is ideally placed to give recognition to schools leading the
way and offering something that little bit special.
The finalists will be
competing for the 2014 Cookery School awards, run in association with Tabasco
Pepper Sauce, in the following categories:
Best cookery school (This
will be the overall winner from a shortlist that will include one school from
each region on the Looking
to Cook map.)
Best cookery course (Three
hours or less.)
Best day cookery course
or food learning experience (This category is open
to all food experience providers.)
Best community oriented
cookery schoolNEW for 2014: Most
Sustainable Cookery School (This
will be awarded by the Sustainable
Restaurant Association using a programme customised to measure a range
of sustainable factors within schools. The winner will receive SRA
accreditation and a year's free membership to the SRA.)
Best cookery school
tutorBest ‘diploma’ cookery
course (This category is open to providers of certified courses no
shorter than one-week long.)
Full details about how to
enter the awards are available on the Looking
to Cook website.
The judging panel will include
Henry Harris, a Leiths graduate and chef-patron at Racine restaurant in
south-west London; Nick Wyke, founder of Looking to Cook, and Celia
Brooks Brown, cookery author and teacher and founder of London’s
Gastrotours.
Public votes and comments for
a particular school, course or tutor can be made via the comments box at the
bottom of a school’s profile on the Looking
to Cook website, or via our Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest pages,
using the hash-tag #cookschoolawards.
The quality and volume of what
the judges consider to be authentic support for a candidate will be taken into
consideration when reaching their final verdict.
“Last year’s entries really
highlighted the tremendous range of cookery schools in the country,” says Nick
Wyke, the founder of Looking to Cook. “It seems that in the cookery school
industry the bar is being raised higher each year.
“Above all we are looking for
evidence of solid instruction in an open environment where students can learn
and indulge their passion for food. We are also looking for consistency
and creativity in the conception and execution of classes, and a capacity to
share knowledge through compelling teaching. The winners will be the sort of
school or course that people would like to return to again and again.”
It’s simple to get involved,
and there are excellent PR and marketing opportunities for participating
schools. The looking to Cook Cookery School Awards are the ultimate
showcase for the industry and we strongly recommend that the owners of all
schools enter the competition. Entry deadline is October 1st 2014.
For more information please contact Nick Wyke on
0207 228 7991 or 0794 111 5857 or email info@lookingtocook.co.uk
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