Food
New for 2010 is an exciting range of Food courses, lectures, demonstrations and feasting!
Building on West Dean's garden courses which features courses on growing your own food, here you can learn about preparing, storing and eating!
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The courses and events have been programmed by Rosemary Moon who will also being demonstrating at some of the sessions. A trained home economist, she is a champion of local food and eco-gastronomy, a much published author and is a regular demonstrator at West Dean events.In this first season, guest experts include:
Mary Berry trained as a home economist and then at the Paris Cordon Bleu. She became a trusted cookery writer to millions during her time at Family Circle magazine and has sold more than 5 million copies of her 60+ cookery books. She received the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Sheila Dillon has worked for 20 years on The Food Programme as reporter, producer and now presenter. Her investigative work has won many awards. In the late 1980s and 90s, she and Derek Cooper covered the breaking scandal of BSE, the rise of GM foods, the growth of the organic movement from muck and magic to multi-million pound business, the birth of the World Trade Organisation and irradiation at a time when those subjects were not even a gleam in a newshound’s eye. She is also the creator of Radio 4’s first interactive grocery show, Veg Talk.
Giles Thompson trained as a chef under Michel Bourdin at the Connaught, and was latterly Executive Chef at The Ritz. Before moving to Chichester he was Head of School at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Academy in Marylebone, teaching the disciplines of French regional and classical cookery. He now runs restaurants at the Earl of March and The Partridge, near West Dean.
Nik Westacott, chef and Chichester’s wild man of food, has shared his passion for mycology with some of the Mushroom Greats, including Roger Philips. A confident and knowledgeable wild food guide who combines foraging advice with cooking ideas from his many years as chef-patron of Platters restaurant and more recently, of 82 Fishbourne.
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West Dean College and Gardens are situated in South East England, six miles north of the historic city of Chichester and 12 miles from the south coast.
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