Local support revives Cookery programme

Local support revives Cookery programme

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Photo caption: Celebrity chef Al Brown used UCOL’s purpose built kitchen facilities during his cooking demonstrations in October.

Aspiring top chefs from throughout the Wairarapa have ensured the revival of UCOL’s Professional Cookery programmes.

Late last year UCOL Wairarapa’s Campus Manager Angela Hewitt warned that the Cookery programmes would only go ahead if there was sufficient community support, expressed in enrolments.

“We are delighted to say the class is full and there is a waiting list,” says Angela.
“The community obviously recognised the programme as an asset and have responded in the best possible way.”

The cookery programme was suspended a year ago because of steadily declining student numbers. “We really believed in the Cookery programme and have worked hard to promote it as a unique qualification that UCOL Wairarapa can offer and deliver at a local level,” says Angela.

Celebrity chef, Masterton-born Al Brown is “ecstatic” the Wairarapa community has got behind UCOL’s Professional Cookery programme.
Al presented a day of public cooking demonstrations in October as part of the promotion of the School of Cookery and its programme for 2010.
Al is co-owner of the famed Logan Brown Restaurant and Bar in Wellington, named Supreme Winner in the 2009 NZ Cuisine ‘Restaurant of the Year’ awards. He also co-presents the popular homegrown TV series Hunger for the Wild and recently launched his book Go Fish.

“The Wairarapa region grows great produce, now there will be more chefs to make good use of it,” says Al.

The Certificate in Professional Cookery gets underway on 1 March at the Masterton campus’s purpose built kitchen facilities.

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