Cooking or culinary holidays, vacations, tours to United Kingdom (UK):

UNITED KINGDOM
. . . beyond roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

Baked beans, bangers and mash, black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, fish and chips, steak and kidney pie, bread and butter, suet pudding, jam roly poly . . . the list is almost endless. Great British foods and don't forget regional delicacies like Welsh faggots or Scottish haggis.

British food at its most sublime! That's the way it used to be . . . with tinned fruit and artificial cream on a Sunday, and don't forget you had to eat bread and butter with it or you might be ill from all that fruit.

Since those heady days British food, or perhaps to put it more correctly the British way of eating has changed beyond all recognition. We now boast many of the world's great chefs and many fine restaurants. Living in the UK is no longer a culinary desert, with more and more people learning to enjoy the delights of good food. And now with our supermarkets stocking the more exotic and exciting ingredients, that were at one time only found in the realm of the chef, many of us are turning back to improving our own cooking skills. The upshot of all this is the mushrooming of cooking schools all around the UK, teaching from the beginner to the experienced amateur that wants to cook like the professional chef.

: :  Rosemary Shrager at Swinton Park Enjoy the delights of a cooking holiday at an exclusive luxury castle, Swinton Park, with Rosemary Shrager the celebrated TV chef who runs her programme of day and residential courses throughout the year from the Swinton Park cookery school. The courses cover a wide range of techniques and styles of cooking. The recipes for each day have a theme, and a wide range of complementary dishes are prepared. click for further details

: :  Ashburton Cookery Courses and Weekends Ashburton Cookery School, set in a beautiful Georgian town on the edge of Dartmoor, offers a fresh approach to cookery with exciting courses that emphasise hands-on involvement, top quality Devon produce and inspirational teaching. There are weekend courses for Beginners, Gastro! Plus, Seafood, Italian, Gentleman’s Relish, French and more. Here are some of them to tempt your appetite for more . . . as well as other courses raning form one day to a week and more. click for further details

: :  Baking in the Scilly Isles This is your chance to learn how to bake bread and much more on a small, beautiful archipelago, geographically close to the UK mainland, yet in its own world . . . the Isles of Scilly. One of Rick Stein's Food Heroes, Toby Tobin-Dougan will teach you all there is to know about the art of bread making. click for further details

: :  Indian and Thai Cookery Classes Our cookery class will enable you to cook curries and classic Indian food as eaten in India. The real deal - we don't just demonstrate - you learn in a very hands on way which means you can re-create the dishes when you get home, and discover that missing link. click for further details

: :  Cooking at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons The Raymond Blanc Cookery School is for everyone who has a passion for food and wishes to have fun preparing it. In fact, “fun” is the word most often used by the cookery school students to describe their one, two or four days at the School. Now in its eleventh year, the Raymond Blanc Cookery School is the only cookery school in the world to offer visitors the chance to watch, learn and practise in the kitchen of a two Michelin Star restaurant. click for further details

: :  Learn to bake in Cumbria with an artisan baker Showing how to do it and explaining why dough works as it does is the calling of organic pioneer and artisan baker Andrew Whitley. His hands-on courses introduce beginners, enthusiasts and culinary professionals alike to the fundamentals of fermentation on which all good bread depends. He is convinced that making good bread is everyone's privilege. His knowledge and skill help banish the fear of failure which blights many people's attempts at bread. . click for further details

: :  The Belle Isle School of Cookery Discover the delights of cooking in a relaxed atmosphere, with expert tuition, using top quality seasonal Irish produce at the Belle Isle School of Cookery in Northern Ireland. The School's hands-on cookery courses and demonstrations will introduce you to some of Ireland’s most exciting and innovative culinary ideas in a cookery school in one of the most beautiful settings in Ireland. click for further details

: :  Indian cooking classes in London A unique way to learn how cook delicious Indian meals with Ren's Kitchen - cookery classes providing lovers of Indian food with the opportunity to learn and create their very own Indian dishes. Or how does taking London’s first ever-interactive Spice Tour, combining both cultural and culinary insights that no cookery book could ever hope to offer, appeal to you? click for further details