Food: cookery courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

John Calder is a trained and qualified patissier, whose speciality and passion is chocolate. Theone Chocolate have been producing beautiful, handmade artisan chocolates from the finest Belgian chocolate for personal and trade customers for many years. This beginners chocolate workshop will take you through the basic techniques you need to produce beautiful, professional looking chocolates at home. You will be shown how to temper the professional way to ensure that your finished products are perfect every time. Learn step by step how to make ganache and truffle making and filled...

Walking at a gentle pace upon a variety of easy terrains, we’ll explore the beautiful Rame Peninsula in SE Cornwall, learning the wild plants and seaweeds that can be used for food and medicines. Each walk includes a cookery class or medicines workshop. If you’ve children or grandchildren, under the age of sixteen, bring them alongfor free and share a knowledge and adventure. See the webpage or date and location specifics.

Seaweed is one of the most fascinating foods we have all across our shore and, yet, it remains alien to many of our diets. We believe this should change! This course will take you across the beautiful Whitsand Bay, teaching you how to identify, harvest, and cook the amazing wild foods available right out of the sea. Our head forager, Vix, will guide you at a pleasant pace from rock pools to the beach, sharing her passion and knowledge of the hundreds of seaweeds that appear, before setting up for...

The Spice of Life a practical exploration of the medicinal use of spices. One day course on using spices for pleasure and healing Course Overview Explore the medicinal use of spices A practical day workshop making cordials, infused oils and other warming remedies with cardamom, frankincense, fennel, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and many other spices. We will also discuss some of the principles of herbalism, and the art of herbal medicine.

Master the ancient art of baking with a wild yeast leaven to create nutritious, delicious and beautiful sourdough breads. Learn how to make and manage your own leaven and bake genuine artisan sourdoughs with surprisingly little effort. Get the sourdough taste and texture you’ve always wanted, from mildly tangy  to truly tart-  and, if you like it that way, properly holey! Discover the trick of fitting “slow dough” into the fastest lifestyles!   Learn a wonderfully simple sourdough routine that’s good for you, body and soul.   Hand-made sourdough bread is real...

Expert, time-saving strategies for genuine, artisan sourdough & yeasted breads. It's superfast breadband! Effortless Artisan Breads is a complete, standalone course to help you make great bread a part of your life. You will learn: * 6 expert schedules for hassle-free, time-saving baking. * 13 tried and tested recipes - an artisan baker's dozen! * how to mix ONCE and bake twice - or three, or four or more times a week. * how to effortlessly control the behaviour of your dough. * make your own sourdough starters and leavens...

FROM MYSTERY TO MASTERY: HOW TO HANDLE SOURDOUGH CULTURES LIKE A PRO! LEARN: How to make organic sourdough starters. How to feed your starter and keep it in top condition. How to use your starter to make a leaven. How much starter to use in different leavens. Use the leaven to bake sourdough breads. How to use young, mature and old leaven to create different textures and flavour profiles. In Part One, we start at the heart of what sourdough is and why it is important, for personal and environmental...

Covid-19 information We will continue to check the UK guidelines and adjust things where necessary. Please have a read of the terms and conditions for full details. This workshop will be limited to 15 people and you must not have a group booking of more than 6 people. Spend a day immersed in nature, foraging for wild ingredients and then sit back and enjoy a wild tipple! The professional forager from Totally Wild UK will explain the culinary uses for the different ingredients found as well as elements of medicinal,...