FOOD+DRINK
FOODIE DAYS OUT CONT.
Bore Place // Chiddingstone // www.boreplace.org
Bore Place is set in 500 acres of countryside encompassing an
organic dairy farm, organic market gardens, conference centre
and an environmental education centre, and offers programmes
to provide opportunities for vulnerable and disadvantaged
young people too.
Bore Place offers a fascinating range of classes and courses
about all subject matters from astronomy to bats. Yet it’s the
cookery classes that
are often the most
popular of all, and
with such a varied
range, it’s not hard
to see why.
The Little Sugar Box // Ashford // www.thelittlesugarbox.com
The Little Sugar Box offers fantastic cake
decorating classes so that you can learn
the finer points of sugarcraft, ensuring that
any cake you make in the future is going to
look stunning.
Sugarcraft is a difficult skill to get just right,
but the classes at The Little Sugar Box are
aimed at complete beginners, so you can
start from scratch and end up with a
wonderful looking cake decoration.
As a bonus, you can also taste many of
the cakes that are on offer at The Little
Sugar Box. Get to know more about your
favourite flavours, or try something you’ve
not tried before.
Choose from artisan
bread making,
vegan cookery
lessons, baking, an
introduction to
fermenting and
pickling, and even
pizza making, as
well as many more
pop-up classes
throughout the year.
Kent Wine School
Tunbridge Wells // www.kentwineschool.com
There is a true skill to being able to pair
wine and food correctly, and it’s a skill that
is taught in a variety of different classes at
the Kent Wine School. The aim is to use
simple ingredients and great wines so that
you can easily replicate the experience at
home, but you will also learn about some
rather surprising combinations that you
wouldn’t ever guess would work, but
somehow do.
Try a traditional wine and cheese evening,
or try something different such as a Tour of
France tasting, Spanish wine and tapas, or
– for those with a sweeter tooth – a
chocolate and wine pairing class.
Kent Cookery School // Ashford // www.kentcookeryschool.co.uk
No matter what kind of food makes your taste buds happy, there is sure to be a course
covering it at the Kent Cookery School. Try European cookery, baking, meat and fish,
Indian and Asian, Weber barbecue cooking, street food and specialist dietary courses too.
Whatever you choose, you will be taught by expert tutors who have plenty of experience
in the kitchen and who love to pass on their ideas and skills to others.
It’s not just cooking that takes place at the Kent Cookery School, you can dine there as
well, enjoying memorable meals at the chef’s table, or at a banquet sampling event. Rest
assured, the food is going to be good, it’s going to be different, and you might just come
home with some new ideas when it comes to creative cooking in your own kitchen.
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