Lunch & Learn: Cook Expert Demonstration

Lunch & Learn: Cook Expert Demonstration

Name: Lunch & Learn: Cook Expert Demonstration
Brand: Magimix
Price: 30.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Magimix

£30

Friday 7th
February 2025

11:00 - 14.30
(3.5hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Looking to cook more from scratch but no time to prep? Keen to master midweek meals, perfect your bread dough or whip up effortless gourmet desserts? Love hosting but hate being tied to the kitchen and nervous to try something new? We have just the thing for you…

Come and meet the Cook Expert (or get more acquainted with your machine), with this fun and informal introduction, courtesy of our very own Jo and Magimix foodie, Stephen. Join them as they demonstrate a delicious selection of straightforward recipes and share a wealth of home cooking tips, tricks and delicious nibbles along the way.

Inventors of the world’s first food processor, Magimix know a thing or two about making cooking from scratch a breeze and their revolutionary Cook Expert is the brainchild of over 50 years of culinary know-how.

A long-standing favourite appliance in the cookery school, this multifunctional marvel will enable you to become the best home cook you can be. From everyday one-pot meals, to mastering trickier recipes with ease, learn why the Cook Expert is the essential companion we all need in our kitchen. Seeing is believing…

Menu for the demonstration all made in the Cook Expert with ease:

G&T Crush (non-alcoholic version available)

Stilton & Walnut Tear & Share loaf

Pea & Mint Soup with Crumbled Feta

Courgette & Aubergine Empanadas

Velvety Hummus

Red Pepper & Almond Pesto

Purple Sprouting Risotto

Sabayon with Mixed Berries

What's included:

Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
Light lunch consisting of tasters from all of the demonstrated recipes with a glass of wine to accompany
10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items. Option to redeem ticket-price against purchase of a Cook Expert.

Jo Pratt

Jo Pratt is a regular face here at Divertimenti Cookery School as our culinary director and class teacher. She’s also a best-selling cookbook author, food stylist and presenter. Jo creates inspirational recipes, all with achievable results for the home cook. She’s published numerous cookbooks with her latest series of ‘flexible’ cookbooks very much focusing on offering flexible and practical recipe solutions that fit around the demands and challenges of modern life including dietary requirements or lifestyle choices.

At the outset of her career, Jo gained a huge amount of knowledge, skill and expertise from many years of working alongside hugely talented restaurant chefs, including the late Gary Rhodes, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and John Torode, working on their books, tv shows, advertising campaigns and live cookery demonstrations.

Nowadays when she’s not at Divertimenti Cookery School or writing books, you’ll often find her presenting recipes online, on TV, working with various food brands, on stage performing live cookery demonstrations and hosting cookery workshops.

Stephen Catherall

Stephen has been a Product demonstrator with Magimix UK for over 7 years and owner of a Magimix for over 15 years. He is passionate about all aspects of food but particularly likes to experiment at home with bread and pastry, along with quick, easy and tasty family meals for his wife & 2 young children. Stephen has also spent time as a Chalet Cook in France with experience of catering for large groups. Having worked with Divertimenti now for over a year he has supported with many classes and demonstrations in the Cookery School.

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

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Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.