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The Pickle Jar - Demo Evening & Book Signing

with Nick Vadasz

£45
Tuesday 8th
April 2025
18:30-20:30
(2hrs)
Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

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Come and meet Nick Vadasz, founder of Vadasz, the UK's leading pickles brand. He will be sharing everything you need to know about making your own ferments, alongside fabulous recipes to use them with from his brand new book 'The Pickle Jar'. 

Whether you want to create your own ferments from scratch or find ways to save the kimchi languishing in your fridge, The Pickle Jar offers endless ways to incorporate fermented foods to upgrade your flavours and boost your gut health.

Make your own pickles and ferments, from classics such as kimchi and sauerkraut to exciting original recipes such as fermented chilli honey or jalapeño relish. Then discover over 50 recipes for incorporating pickles and ferments into your daily cooking.

From brilliant breakfasts and flavour - packed salads, to scrumptious sandwiches and vibrant dinners, the recipes include Pea and Pickle Soup, Kimchi Prawn Toast, Crispy Cauliflower Kimcheese, and Chicken Wings with Fermented Honey sauce.

In the demonstration Nick will be making:

  • Super-beet Kimchi Pancakes with purple sriracha 
  • Pea & pickle soup 
  • Kale, apricot & curried kraut salad with almonds & feta 
  • Grilled pineapple & broccoli salad with pickled red onions

What's included:

  • Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class

  • Nibbles consisting of tasters from all of the demonstrated recipes & tasters of all the delicious Vadasz range with a glass of wine to accompany

We will have copies of the brand new book available for purchase and signing, and you will have a chance to ask The Picklesman all the questions you may have about how to start your own journey into pickle making. 

Nick Vadasz

Nick Vadasz is better known as The Picklesman. Inspired by his Hungarian heritage, he founded Vadasz in 2011 in a shipping container in Hackney, East London. He began selling his range of both fermented and vinegar brined pickles, sauerkraut and kimchi at markets across London. Vadasz soon became the first UK based producer of cold brined pickles and chilled live ferments and is now stocked in all major supermarkets and a variety of restaurants nationwide.

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.



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