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THE COOKERY SCHOOL
WHERE Malton Cookery School, Malton, Yorkshire (maltoncookeryschool.co.uk) THE COURSE Game (£99 for a half-day course, including lunch with wine) TESTED BY Phoebe Stone|
WHAT IT’S LIKE Malton Cookery School is a good place to be on a dark autumn afternoon. Set in a refurbished chapel in the centre of town, the school is the latest addition (and a welcome one) to the blossoming Yorkshire food scene. Walking into the open-plan kitchen, the atmosphere is immediately cosy, with scrubbed-wood countertops, white range cookers and bottles of Malton ale lining the shelves with the pots and pans.
Head tutor Gilly Robinson put the kettle on and we sat down with a mug of tea and biscuits to discuss the afternoon’s cooking – it was like being in an aunty’s country kitchen. This was to be a lesson in game cookery but Gilly explained she’d swapped out venison for beef in one of the recipes – when she went to the local butcher first thing it was the pick of the day – and changed the planned blackberries for seasonal plums. I could hardly argue with that commitment to quality and seasonality.