Extract from:
BBC Good Food Magazine
Date? 2006

Great for cautious cooks

What’s it like? Run by passionate foodie,
Cressida, at her home in rural Suffolk. It has a
relaxed and friendly atmosphere where you can get to grips with cooking and enjoy yourself.

On the menu Great variety of different courses with maximum of six per class. Before you attend, you’re asked about your cooking ability and if you’ve any specific culinary queries, as the course is based around these answers. Your’re not expected to know anything and are simply encouraged to have a go – the others on my course were surprised at how much they’d achieved, but with a little encouragement from Cressida they did great things.

How hands-on After a ten-minute introduction, we were measuring flour to make our own pastry, then given a huge array of ingredients to make fillings, and we spent the next three hours busily creating. In the end, we’d made ten different fillings for flans and had been shown quick and easy cooking tips, like chopping an onion, crushing garlic and useful methods for caramelising onions and poaching fish.

What else can I do? Explore the historic towns
of Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich, or enjoy the
peaceful Suffolk countryside.