Cooking Schools
featured:
Sydney Seafood School
Simon Johnson - Talk Eat Drink
Accoutrement
The Olive & the Grape
He Cooks
Food Stuff
Cucina Italiana
The Unlimited Cuisine Company
On The Vine Cooking School
Duck Under The Table
Urban Graze
Greekalicious
Pomodoro Italian Cooking
School
Healthy Soy Cooking
Sydney Seafood School - Roberta Muir
Since 1989 the Sydney Seafood School
has pursued its mission of showing Sydney-siders just how easy it is to prepare
a wide variety of seafood species at home.
The School is now widely regarded as one of the country’s leading cooking
schools with over 11,000 guests a year attending classes. From a prime
directive of creating a demand for the more unusual varieties of seafood, the
school has moved into teaching local, interstate and overseas “foodies” (a term
coined in the 1980s) how to cook a huge variety of cuisines. While
seafood is still its raison d’ętre, there’s no longer any need to convince most
people to try cooking with mussels, octopus or crabs, in fact abalone, sashimi,
pipis and sea-snails don’t daunt many of the food-savvy clientele who now fill
classes most weekday evenings and weekends. Asian flavours are popular,
with a class beginning in the Thai shops of Chinatown among the most
popular. Leading Australian chefs teach classes, including expats now
running successful London ventures such as David Thompson from Nahm and
Christine Manfield from East@West. Cheong Liew, Damien Pignolet, Neil
Perry, Matthew Moran and Peter Doyle have all been spotted presenting their unique
takes on Australian cuisine at one time or another on the School’s extensive
program.
All classes commence with a demonstration of the dish or dishes to be
prepared. As anyone who’s ever watched an expert in the kitchen knows:
how easy it looks in skilled hands is one thing, but recreating it later in
your own kitchen is quite another. And this is where the Seafood School
is unique…after the demonstration, guests roll up their sleeves, don an apron
and, in groups of five, recreate the dishes they’ve seen demonstrated.
Under the watchful eye of the demonstrator and assistants, each guest helps
create a meal of which they, rightly, feel quite proud. Then of course
(most people’s favourite part), everyone sits down to their seafood feast with
a complimentary wine tasting.
The Seafood School conducts a wide range of classes for all degrees of
competency from a four-session course in seafood basics to the more complex
weekend workshops with leading chefs. A vast array of cuisines and
cooking styles are covered, including the School’s most popular class, Seafood
BBQ, which is often scheduled three or four times a month to keep up with
demand!
…and for the hard-to-shop-for friend or relative, a gift certificate to the
Sydney Seafood School can solve many gift giving worries.
Current Program
For more information contact -
Roberta Muir
Manager
Sydney Seafood School
Sydney Fish Market Pty Limited
Phone +61 2 9004 1111 Fax +61 2 9004 1144
E-Mail Roberta Muir for more
info: 
Or visit the Sydney Fish Market
Website
Simon Johnson - Talk Eat Drink
Visit Simon Johnson's Pyrmont demonstration kitchen for the latest lineup of
great chefs and sensational wines to match. The class fee of $ 85.00 (incl.
GST) includes the cookery demonstration, recipes to take home, a tasting of the
dishes prepared, and a tasting of the matched wines.
Classes held at: Simon Johnson, Purveyor of Quality Foods,
181 Harris Street
Pyrmont 2009
For more information call: 02 9552 2522
or e-mail Sara:
Visit Simon Johnson's Website.
Accoutrement Cooking School and Epicurean, situated in the Sydney suburb
of Mosman has a regular program of cooking classes with celebrity chefs and
cookbook authors.
Cooking School Phone/Fax: – 02)9969 7929
Email: accoutrement@bigpond.com
Accoutrement
611 Military Road
Mosman NSW 2088
Tel: 02 9969 1031
Accoutrement's Website .
Class Program
The Olive & The Grape, has teamed up with a boutique Hunter Valley winery to create a thoroughly enjoyable gourmet experience full of food, wine and merriment! Every Saturday afternoon (and by appointment for groups during the week), they are holding classes at the winery where participants learn the traditional art of making fresh pasta, while they sip premium Hunter wine, sample local and regional olive oils, enjoy spectacular vistas of vineyards, and then feast on the fruits of their labour!
Contact
Tel: 02 9662 3975
Have a look at: www.theoliveandthegrape.com
for more information.
Traditional gender stereotypes have resulted in many men never
experiencing the creative, social and health benefits of cooking for themselves.
He Cooks has been created to introduce men to the joys and practicalities
of cooking, through a series of flexible and informal classes.
Tel: 02 9326 6530
Have a look at: He Cooks for contact information and bookings.
Food Stuff in Mona Vale offers
cooking classes in their demonstration kitchen, which emulates a domestic
kitchen, not a professional one, so you can replicate methods of cooking
and techniques at home in your own kitchen.
Bookings are essential as spaces are limited.
Food Stuff
9/11 Bungan Street
Mona Vale 2103
Tel: 02 9999 3033
For more information and a look at the current program: Food Stuff Website
Traditional Italian Cooking School - Cucina Italiana
Luciana Sampogna runs Cucina
Italiana, an inspiring cooking school in Annandale specialising in
traditional Italian home cooking with a big emphasis on fresh pasta.
The classes take place in an Italian Villa where students can relax in the back
garden under a near-century-old grape vine (brought from Italy) and dine
under the 'piano nobili' ceiling in the old living room. The working area has
been built with special wooden workbenches to make pasta and ensure your
success at home.
All classes are hands on. Then of course everyone sits down to a full
Italian meal with complimentary wine tasting.
For more information contact:
Luciana Sampogna
Cucina Italiana Cooking School
84 Johnston Street, Annandale 2038
Phone +61 2 8021 2699 Fax +61 2 8212 8065
On the Vine Cooking School
The ‘On The Vine’ Cooking School is held in the De Bortoli Restaurant
overlooking the vines of the Yarra Valley. After each class a wonderful lunch
is shared, including the dishes that have just been covered in the class, all married
to De Bortoli wines.
On the Vine Cooking School
58 Pinnacle Lane
Dixons Creek (1 hour from Melbourne )
Bookings & inquiries Niki (03) 5965 2271
An invitation to Tony Tan's for a meal is something to be eagerly anticipated. His cooking is savoury, masterly and absolutely mouth-watering
Download Cooking Class Schedule for 2004
Duck Under
the Table is located at Wingham, an authentic country town on the NSW
Mid North Coast, 3 ˝ hours north of Sydney. Consider over-nighting or a longer
break in this beautiful area:.
Duck Under the Table is about the enjoyment of
cooking – learning new skills , tips and chefs’ secrets. Classes are held in
our modern purpose-built school and typically involve both demonstration and
hands-on activities. Class sizes are small and participants usually work in
groups of 4. Why not organize a group of friends and come along together !
Duck Under the Table offers a wide variety of
classes to suit everyone, weekdays, evenings and weekends: please see our SCHEDULE
page. Special classes for private groups, community organisations and corporate
groups can also be arranged.
Visit Duck Under the Table's Website
Joel Owen and Tarrah Laidman run the
Urban Graze Cooking School located at Kellyville
Check out their cooking classes, home barrista and Cheese Room
Go to their website for details!
Joel Owen & Tarrah
Laidman
6 Patterson Ave, Kellyville NSW 2155
t 9862 3042 m 0434 253 470
e-mail Urban Graze
Greekalicious Traditional and Modern Greek Cooking Classes
Greekalicious offers an introduction to traditional and Modern Greek cookery,
the secret ingredients, the stories, the journeys, the culture and the history
behind each dish. Food is one of the most intimate ways to delight the senses,
escape the everyday and bring far away places alive.
Class Schedules
e-mail Greekalicious
Greekalicious Website
Maria Benardis runs the Greekalicious cooking classes in Paddington.
Tel.: 02 9331 0734
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Silvia Guccione runs
the Pomodoro Italian Cooking School in Melbourne
In her own words: "Allow me to inspire you to cook fantastic home-style
Italian cuisine passed down from one generation to the next. Located in
Bayside, Melbourne, I will share with you the Italian lifestyle of simple
pleasures, the goodness of fresh produce, and a social and relaxing
atmosphere."
Tel.: 03 8503 7338
Visit her website
E-mail Silvia
Healthy Soy Cooking
Something different,
something healthy, something to enjoy, Yoshiko would love to share these
amazingly versatile soy dishes with you.
Have a look at her website Healthy Soy Cooking
You can contact Yoshiko Takeuchi
on 0404 266 860
Or e-mail
