Like many an amateur cook, I get possessed by fleeting delusions of adequacy.
Like many an amateur cook, I get possessed by fleeting delusions of adequacy.
Flour power: Tom Shields gets busy in the kitchen. Photograph: Marc Turner
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Tom Shields
Dinner guests ask why I don't open one of those pop-up restaurants. I resist, knowing I am fully equipped with Gordon Ramsay's rudeness and swear words but few of his culinary skills.
I came up instead with the concept of a pop-up cookery club, a communal initiative where food professionals are prevailed upon to come along and pass on skills to parent-and-child pairings. Families get involved in making food and sit down together to eat. That is the social agenda. My reward is getting to hang out with chefs.
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The Broken Biscuits Cookery Club takes its first steps
Like many an amateur cook, I get possessed by fleeting delusions of adequacy.
Dinner guests ask why I don't open one of those pop-up restaurants. I resist, knowing I am fully equipped with Gordon Ramsay's rudeness and swear words but few of his culinary skills.
I came up instead with the concept of a pop-up cookery club, a communal initiative where food professionals are prevailed upon to come along and pass on skills to parent-and-child pairings. Families get involved in making food and sit down together to eat. That is the social agenda. My reward is getting to hang out with chefs.
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