4 Weeks Intensive Certificate Course

Who is it for?

This is an ideal opportunity for gap year or recently graduated students. If you have ambitions to cook for others – perhaps in a ski chalet, highland lodge, or your own home – then this is the course for you. We work closely with Scottish and London-based agencies to help you find a job if you wish (see Links page for links to some of these companies). Although there are no formal entry qualifications, a good sense of fun is essential – it is hard work!

Course Content

Learn all you need to know about cooking for small and large groups, from planning to serving:

• Dinner Party Menus
• Breakfasts
• Menu planning: costing and budgeting, accommodating special diets
• Practical advice and guidance for the hectic host, hostess and chalet cook
• An introduction to matching food and wine
• Team management
• Using equipment
• REHIS Food Handlers Hygiene Certificate
• WSET Level 1 Foundation Course

Cooking Can Pay

Delivered in two half-days by staff from the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Edinburgh Napier University, this workshop is designed to show how ESFW students could use their new culinary skills to maximise opportunities and generate income for themselves in the future. It covers creativity and ideas generation, managing finances and record keeping, marketing research and self promotion, and a legal checklist for starting up.

Career Prospects

We work closely with large and small companies within the travel and tourism market and offer a personal introduction to agents and ski companies based in London, Continental Europe and Scotland.

The Cook’s Essential Kit

As well as benefiting from high quality teaching and extensive practical experience on this course, you will also be given your own Cook’s Essential Kit – a vital companion to equip you in the world of cookery. You will use this throughout your course and be given the kit to take away with you – for no extra charge!