Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2006/January 2007 | Page 13

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Quaycuisine
launchescookerytraining course.
Julie Hudson set Quaycuisine
up three years ago and she has
built a highly successful and
professional company, providing
the highest standard of yacht
and crew house catering to the
UK and European sailing market.
Since 2003 Quaycuisine’s clients
has ranged from racing yachts to
corporate companies. Quaycuisine’s
demanding standards has given rise
to the need for better staff training
and this provided the motivation to
create the Sport and Leisure Catering
Course.
“The Quaycuisine Sport and
Leisure Catering Course is based
around
fundamental
cookery
techniques and methods that can be
applied whether you’re working in a
professional kitchen or entertaining
at home. If you want to improve
your cooking skills or experience
the life of a catering professional,

possibly as a chalet host
or chef on a yacht, this
course is for you.” Julie
Hudson – Quaycuisine.
In order to provide the
highestpossiblestandard
of training Julie selected
SMART Training and
Recruitment based in
Newport on the Isle of
Wight. Their extensive
experience working in
the catering and training
industry
has
been
invaluable and creating
with them a wealth of
knowledgeandexpertise.
SMART Training and
Recruitment are a critical
link in this exciting and
unique project.
This is a highly
intensive course lasting
six days, with training
during the day and
during the evening. The
result is a 6 industryrecognisedqualifications
that give the successful candidates
all of the foundations they require
to work as a cook, chalet host or
just update and improve their
existing cookery skills. At the end
of the course students will receive
a Quaycuisine bound record of
achievement portfolio containing all
of their certificates and awards.
Not one to stay still Julie has just
launched her new website; www.
quaycusine.com which details a
range of new products and services
that Quaycuisine are now offering.
In addition to their traditional
crew house catering, Quaycuisine
have just launched a range of
provisioning packs for crew houses
enabling crews to order food, wine
and beer online for delivery to their
accommodation.
The new products even extends to
crew clothing with Quaycuisine now
offering Corporate/crew branding
services by acting as suppliers of the
full Helly Hansen range of clothing.
2007 promises to be a busy year
for this vibrant business.
Call 01983 209875 or 07793 962780
or www.quaycusine.com

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“Find me a
reason to make
a film on the
Isle of Wight
and I will”

Anthony Minghella pays flying
visit for fund-raising film premiere
Island-born
film-maker
Anthony Minghella battled
stormy weather conditions to
travel back home for the Isle
of Wight film premiere of his
latest movie, Breaking and
Entering, starring Hollywood
heart throb Jude Law.

the cutting room watching it so
many times - every inch of it!”
Anthony, who is also known
for being keen to nurture and
supportyoung,up-comingtalent,
was keen to speak to pupils from
Medina High School’s sixth
form, who were at the event
taking photos and conducting
their own interviews.
We asked him what he most
enjoyed about making the film
and were a little surprised by the
reply: “ I suppose the fact that
I could go home each night and
sleep in my own bed!” he said.
“Over the last 20 years, I have
probably spent much more time
in hotel rooms than I have my
own home”.

On arrival at the Medina
Theatre, Anthony spent time
talking to fans and movie-goers
about the new film, which was
shot in Kings Cross, not far from
his London home.
Among the audience for the
screening were his parents,
Eddie and Gloria – and as well as
being there to see her son’s latest
work, Gloria Minghella was
also busily raising money for
her favourite charity the Motor
Neurone Disease Association.
Gloria said she was particularly
grateful to everyone who had
braved the appalling weather
conditions to attend the event
and help raise more than
£5,000 for the charity.
After a short informal
reception, Anthony, who
famously won an Oscar for The
English Patient, introduced
his latest film to the packed
audience and then promptly
retreated.
“I’ve never seen any of m