Gap Year Cookery
Gain valuable skills and have fun on our four week cookery course
Gap year ideas don’t come more enjoyable or delicious than this. Are you young, adventurous and seeking gap year opportunities before or after university, planning a mid-career break, or a young-at-heart grandparent or recently retired person keen to see the world?
Make the most of your gap year
Whatever your dreams, if you aspire to Gordon Ramsey’s, or Nigella Lawson’s, culinary skills, this is your head-start to making the most of those precious 12 months:
- Boosting confidence and empowering your initiative
- Providing the cookery skills to make the most of your gap year experience
- Increase your appeal to employers
- Opening new opportunities
Where will your gap year course take you?
Our intensive course which is ideal for Gap Years is a professional four-week cookery course. Working hands-on with other motivated cookery students in our stunning purpose-built kitchen, you’ll learn all the skills you’ll need to work as a cook during your gap year.
And after you graduate? As many people’s gap year projects have an international element, how about imagining yourself catering for ski-groups in a French ski resort, preparing flying fish and cous cous on a yacht in the Caribbean, or delighting dinner guests on the terrace of a centuries-old Tuscan villa...
And that’s just for starters...
Make your gap year dreams come true
Above all, imagine seeing the world, getting paid while you do it and coming away with skills and experiences that your friends, family and colleagues will envy.
Now, let us help you turn your dreams into reality.
Our approach to your Cookery Training
The Gables School of Cookery has an excellent teacher/student ratio, with one to one help for students experiencing difficulty. We are a small personal school and get to know our students well. We help students on the cookery courses with development of their CV’s and discuss career options. We also provide follow up support once students have left our cookery school, offering advice and help with job seeking and circulating incoming vacancies.
Our students develop good practical cookery skills, which they can apply confidently in a range of environments. In addition to clear practical tuition we provide close support with the development of their cooking skills to the standard that you would expect to find in a good restaurant.
Our four week cookery courses are multi-disciplinary and typically have a mixture of yacht, ski chalet, gap year, people wanting to work in hotels/restaurants and those planning to run their own catering businesses. The beauty of this arrangement is that you will be exposed to a wide range of influences.
You may well come on a course intending to work in ski chalet cookery and end up going into yacht cookery. In summary in addition to teaching you to cook to a very high standard the four week cookery course also offers an invaluable way to re-assess your career or business plans.
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