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Introduction to Bread Making Course Review – Crumbs Magazine
If you’re thinking about making your own bread then our Introduction to Bread Making Course is definitely the one for you. Hosted by one of Bristols best Artisan bakers, Martin Hunt who owns and runs Joes Bakery on the Gloucester Road. This all day bread making course gives you practical experience in baking a range of British and Continental breads from scratch. You learn how to mix and knead soft Continental dough and also tighter British doughs. Mixing and kneading…
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Pig Butchery Course Review – Crumbs Magazine
For those of you thinking about booking onto one of our Pig Butchery Courses, please have a quick read of this Crumbs article. Written by Laura Rowe it gives a great flavour of what we cover on the course and also highlights our Field to Fork ethos that runs through so many of our courses. We are extremely lucky to have Robin Rea of The Rusty Pig host our courses. Robin is an absolute expert in all things pig, from…
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Telegraph Article – The setting up of Vale House Kitchen
Heres a link to the article earlier this year about how Vale House Kitchen came about. Incredible to think that we’ve now been open 3 years, and what an amazing 3 years its been. Hard at times and a huge learning curve, but so much fun, so rewarding and the opportunity to work with and meet so many fantastic people. Thank you to everyone thats been involved. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/near-death-divorce-and-duty-drove-these-londoners-to-trade-in-th/
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Meet the Experts: Adrian Boots
Adrian Boots is the latest addition to the team at Vale House Kitchen, and will be bringing his skills as a wild food expert and landscape ecologist to our extremely popular foraging courses. He replaces our previous expert Chris, whose delicious foraged foodie business Heavenly Hedgerows now demands more of her time – but never fear, it was Adrian who trained Chris in the first place so there couldn’t possibly be a more perfect person for her to pass the…
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Meet the Experts: Neil Keep
Neil is Vale House Kitchen’s resident fly-fishing expert – and with more than forty years’ experience, he’s certainly the man for the job. He started fly-fishing at the age of 7, and by 15 was being coached by world-renowned caster Simon Gawesworth, before going on to compete all over Europe. Neil’s got a wealth of experience in teaching, several key qualifications and a relaxed, friendly style that makes him ideal to take anyone through this great outdoor sport. How did…
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Fly Fishing with Neil Keep
We’re delighted to offer fly fishing as one of our field courses – it’s the perfect activity for the foodie who loves being out in the fresh air and really getting involved in where their food comes from. Spreading the course over two days allows us to properly get into the process – you’ll spend the first day at the beautiful Cameley Lakes with top instructor Neil Keep, learning all about the equipment and techniques used, and trying them out…
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