Daniela Gattegno
After studying Developmental Biology at Edinburgh University and gaining a Masters and an MPhil, Daniela Gattegno spent three years as a research fellow at the Veterinary School at Edinburgh University. She realised that while the people and projects were all great, she just wasn’t happy in her day to day job. A bold and brave decision and a delve into the unknown, Daniela [...]
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Emma Louise McGettrick
Emma Louise McGettrick attended the Six Month Practical Cookery Diploma in September 2012. Since then she worked in an Edinburgh restaurant as their baker and then moved to a position with Edinburgh Chef Mark Greenaway. Emma Louise recently moved to London and is now working for chef Robin Gill. Here Emma Louise tells her story. Where did your passion for food start? I was lucky [...]
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Hannah Innes
Hannah Innes completed the Six Month Diploma at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School in 2014. Since then she has been working hard in the kitchens of fine dining establishments in Edinburgh to hone the skills she learnt at the Cookery School. She now runs her own business and works as a freelance chef. Here she explains how she turned her hobby into her career. If [...]
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Isla Cruickshank
Isla Cruickshank attended the Three Month Beginners Certificate at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School in September 2012. Since then she has used her qualification to find work during gap years and university holidays. We asked Isla to talk to us about herself, her training and what she has been doing since she left us. What encouraged you to undertake a cookery course? I grew up [...]
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Jenny Haigh
Jenny Haigh attended our Six-Month Diploma Course in 2014. Since she graduated, Jenny has been working as a freelance chef. She is very busy and always travelling but she managed to find time to answer some questions about her time at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School and to tell us what she has been doing since she left. To contact Jenny visit her website www.jennyhaigh.co.uk or Instagram [...]
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Kelley Terlip
Kelley Terlip came from the United States of America to attend our Three Month Beginners Certificate Course in September 2012. Since she left us she has been very busy building a successful career in food. We asked Kelley to tell us about her time at ENTCS and what she has done since. Where did your passion for food start? My passion for food started at [...]
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Lucy Harding
Lucy Harding attended our Six Month Practical Cookery Diploma in September 2013 after deciding that university wasn’t for her. She has been very busy since she left us and has formed a fascinating and exciting career. We asked Lucy to tell us why she decided to leave university and start a career in food and where this decision has taken her. Where did your passion [...]
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Maria Lima
Maria Lima, from Portugal, took the Six Month Practical Cookery Diploma in April 2015. She worked in Edinburgh for over a year before returning to Portugal. Her career is going from strength to strength. Maria told us why she chose the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School. Where did your passion for food start? My passion for food started when I was a little girl and [...]
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Nigel Stewart
Nigel Stewart attended our Three Month Intermediate Certificate Course in January 2014. Since graduating from the course Nigel has been busy as a freelance private chef based mainly in Suffolk and Essex but also travelling further afield to cook for clients. We asked Nigel some questions about his decision to change his career and how he has found life and work since he [...]
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Peter Gayford
Peter Gayford attended the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School (ENTCS) for the Three-Month Beginners Certificate Course between September and December 2020. Since leaving, Pete has set up a successful catering business FieldFireFork where he uses amazing Scottish produce and a very special barbecue. We caught up with him to find out how things were going and to ask him about his influences and [...]
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Peter Simpson
Peter Simpson attended the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School in September 2015 when he took the Six Month Practical Cookery Diploma. Peter owns and runs the Pennan Inn in Pennan, Aberdeenshire.This is what he said about his time at the cookery school and since he has left. Where did your passion for food start? My passion for food probably started on my first trip [...]
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Pippa Denton
Pippa Denton was a student on our One Month Practical Cookery Certificate Course in May 2012. She wanted to be able to earn money in her university holidays but it led to her deciding that cooking is what she wanted to do full time and she is now working in a game lodge in Zambia. Read her story. Where did your passion for food start? [...]
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Roly Simpson
Roly had a 12 year career in estate agency prior to coming to Edinburgh New Town Cookery School to undertake our 6 Month Diploma Course. He completed the course in early September 2016 and has been working in a central Edinburgh cafe since then. He then set up his own supper club and bespoke catering business called Toasted Radish cooking for dinner parties and other events [...]
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Rukmini Iyer, MasterChef contestant 2013
Rukmini Iyer, former student on Three Month Intermediate Certificate Course and MasterChef contestant 2013. Originally from Cambridgeshire, Rukmini studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and went to law school in London. After two years working as a trainee solicitor, she realised that cooking was her real passion and decided to pursue a career doing what she loved. Rukmini explains: “I’ve always loved cooking. As we [...]
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