Wild Food & Foraging Coming to Hartingtons

We are so looking forward to the first Wild Food and Foraging Course by world renowned food forager Chris Bax. Chris is unusual in that he is also an accomplished chef. As well as his interest in the natural world and flora Chris looks to use his foraged food to add and enhance peoples everyday cooking. After a 3-4 hour forage in the glorious Peak District on the edge of Bakewell Chris will come back to Hartingtons School of Food and demonstrate how to make:

"Goats cheese, sweet cicely and pickled blackberry toast,  Pressed lamb shoulder with ground ivy and wild herb choux potato dumplings,  elder rob mousse crumble as well as a Hedge Jelly preserve to take home.

I for one can't wait.

For more details of the Foraging Course as well as many other innovative and exciting food based courses please check out our website.

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Award winning chef joins team of over 20 experts

Robert Stordy, multi award winning chef, is the latest expert tutor to join the team at Hartingtons School of Food in Bakewell, Derbyshire. Robert will be cooking up a French Autumn Feast for the second of the acclaimed Gourmet Supper Club, with people travelling from all over the country to attend this evening of exquisite food and wines.

Chris Horne, co-owner of Hartingtons School of Food, comments: "We are so pleased to have Robert working with us at Hartingons. Robert, a classically trained chef & expert on fine dining, will also be delivering a course on Canapes leading up to Christmas, which will be ideal for those looking at entertaining over the Festive Season".

A team of experts

Robert joins the team of over 20 artisan food and cookery experts delivering courses at Hartingtons School of Food in Bakewell.  Chris Horne of Hartingtons explains: "When Julie and I set up Hartingtons our vision was always to get in the leading experts in each of the areas we run courses.  We simply don't believe that one "in house" chef can be an expert in all areas of cooking and artisan food production. We are so delighted that we have been able to work with some of the leading food experts in their chosen area. This probably helps to explain why people are now travelling to us from all over the country to take part in our artisan food and cookery courses. We even had one couple fly over from Dublin to learn how to make an artisan pork pie!"

Hartingtons has been delivering artisan food and cookery courses since January and is rapidly gaining a national profile for the quality of its artisan food courses and cookery courses.  For more details visit www.hartingtons.com.

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The Gourmet Supper Club - are you in the know?

Hartingtons held its first ever Gourmet Supper Club (GSC) in our converted saw mill in Bakewell on Friday. For those NOT in the know there seemed nothing special about the dimmed lights and flamenco beats coming from the first floor of the historic Rutland Mill on the banks of the River Wye but for a small group of enthusiastic foodies who were in the know....what a way to start the weekend! Fantastic food, sumptuous wine & inspiring company all in a beautiful setting. As our Facebook page shows our School of Food could have almost be mistaken for a little part of Catalonia just for the evening.

Authentic tapas were provided by El Toro courtesy of their Spanish Chef Eddie Morales and each of the fantastic six food courses were carefully matched with a scintillating wine selected especially by John Hattersely Wines to provide the perfect accompaniment to each dish.

For those that have missed out on the first Gourmet Supper Club our next one is on the theme of a French Autumn Feast and will take place on the 26th October.  The food will be created by multi-award winning chef Robert Stordy who will also demo how he created several of the dishes.  Again a tutored wine tasting, this time of French wines. will take place.  Places are limited so please if you do read this blog keep it to yourself - it's our little secret!

For more details email:  gsc@hartingtons.com

World First Bakewell Pudding Cup Cake launches in Bakewell

The World's first Bakewell Pudding Cupcake premieres at Hartingtons School of Food this Saturday the 21st July.  For lovers of the Bakewell Pudding this modern twist of the classic Bakewell dish will be an interesting addition.  Not only will visitors to Hartingtons School of Food be able to sample this World first but they will also be treated to a 'pop up gallery' featuring the antics of Sheffield cartoon character 'Pearl'. Pearl has pretensions to be the "New Tart in Bakewell" and will guarantee to shock and amuse visitors to the converted Rutland Mill in Bakewell.

So why not pop in to our 'pop up' in Bakewell and feast yourself on Bakewell Tart and Cupcakes and check out Hartingtons latest cookery and artisan food courses (with show offers available only on the day!)

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Food foraging course in the Peak District

Food foraging has become incredibly popular.  Foraging for food involves people using the natural world as their own larder finding edible, nuts, berries, plants, fungi and even tree sap.  In our case students will venture into the fabulous Peak District to look for unique natural foods growing wild and which most of us would just ignore.  With some expert guidance from Chris Bax who has become one of the countries foremost experts in food foraging you will be shown how to forage food safely and harvest some of natures most interesting natural flavours.  Chris regularly appears on TV and in the media as an expert on food foraging.  Originally a chef, Chris will then demonstrate his culinary skills to show you how to use the foraged food to make distinctive but easy to create dishes.



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Artisan bread making courses - MORE experts

Hartingtons of Bakewell prides itself on getting in experts to deliver its artisan food and cookery courses.  We think this way we get real experts who are passionate about the courses they are delivering and we can give our students greater variety in terms of tutor styles and backgrounds.

Take for example our artisan bread courses.  Hartingtons are fast gaining a national reputation for our artisan bread making courses.  I don't think that there is any other School of Food in the country that has four different artisan bakers delivering artisan bread making courses at the same time.  We think variety, choice and expertise is good.  From a glance at the reviews on Tripadvisor it seems that our students agree.

Have a look at our range of expert tutors and find an artisan bread making course that suits you.  Bread making will never be so much fun and your bread will never have tasted so good!


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Cup cake making in Bakewell

Great baking and Bakewell are made to go together -  it's in the name!

It's no surprise that the first ever cup cake making class at Hartingtons School of Food SOLD OUT within days of being announced.  The cup cake making course will be taken by Emma Mitchell who provides the cup cakes for the world famous Chatsworth House Farm Shop. Emma will take aspiring cup cake makers through the steps of decorating your cup cakes with fondant and butter cream. You will also be treated to a tutored cup cake tasting and will take away four beautifully decorated cup cakes at the end.

Due to the phenomenal demand for places on this cup caking making course Hartingtons has just announced an additional date of the 19th August so why not treat yourself to a fun Sunday morning out in Bakewell learning about the intricacies of cup cake making.