Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) and Greener Kirkcaldy, both usually run regular face-to-face cooking courses. They now deliver these online and gave us some tips and ideas based on what they …
Ideas about developing and running cooking skills courses
On-line cooking sessions -Tips and ideas from Edinburgh Community Food and Greener Kirkcaldy
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Cooking skills blog 32: Practitioner guest blog: ‘the benefits of being forgetful and burning rice’
Chris Mantle ANutr, Senior Food and Health Development Worker, is our guest blogger this week. Chris is a member of our cooking skills study group and runs regular cooking courses …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 30: What are the best recipes to use on a cooking skills course? Part 2.
All the practitioners in our cooking skills study group hope that people on their courses will make the recipes they have learned on the course again at home. Most are …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 23: Guest blog by Jacqui McDowell – The social value of cooking and eating together
This week, my CFHS colleague Jacqui reflects on the social aspects of cooking and eating. ‘Who will you eat Christmas dinner with this year? Will you or someone else do …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking Skills Blog 17: What are the benefits of running a structured cooking skills course?
Earlier this week I attended the Community Cooking Network event at the Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre in Glasgow. It provided updates and ideas for those interested in, or delivering …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
Cooking skills blog 16: practitioner guest blog –Gail Hutchison: reflecting on two very different approaches to managing and evaluating cooking courses
Gail is a member of the CFHS cooking skills study group on behalf of both NHS Forth Valley and Edinburgh Community Food. Her role at both is to manage and …
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Cooking skills blog 14. What are the best recipes to use in a cooking skills course?
One of the topics that I would like to find out more about is: What are the most successful type of recipes for community cooking skills courses? ‘Success’ for members …
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Cooking skills blog 13: How can ‘significant others’ help (or hinder) the aims of your cooking skills course?
Our cooking skills study group recently met together and shared ideas about running effective cooking skills courses. One topic they discussed was the role of ‘significant others’ attending courses. That …
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Cooking skills blog 5: Does your group eat together at the end of a cooking skills session?
How do you decide what to do with the food that has been cooked? Should participants take the food home (to share with others, or eat later) or is it …
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Areas of Work: Cookery skills, Information provision
CFHS blog – online cooking skills courses: tips and ideas from REHIS
Since March last year, The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) has allowed REHIS course presenters to deliver the REHIS Elementary Cooking Skills course virtually, using platforms such as …