Kitchen Heaven came to King’s Girls’ as top chef Paul Smith served up a succession of tasty tit-bits at the end of a six week master class. The Area Executive Development Chef for Chartwells, the King's School’s caterers, set up in his own cookery school in the
A dozen fledgling Delia Smiths won a place on his life skills course, spending six weekly after school sessions learning the fundamental principles of nutrition, cookery, presentation and service. The end result was a fabulous feast of canapes enjoyed by parents, governors, teachers and friends.
On the menu were sesame seed and Stilton cookies, paprika cheese straws, chilli fennel and pineapple salad, frozen Swiss ice berries with white chocolate sauce, baby cottage pies and that British cultural icon, fish and chips. Paul, who manages 140 major contracts across the North and
“The girls turned up to the first session like scared rabbits in full beam headlights but after six weeks they had learned to treat their food with love and affection producing a fabulous feast worthy of restaurant service.” He added: “If you want to be a good cook you must enjoy cooking and not treat it as a chore, and I feel the girls loved every minute and will now not resort to ready meals when they get to university, but will cook sensibly, healthily and economically.”
Paul’s own role models were Gordon Ramsay and Delia Smith, but he added: “That's the Delia I grew up with not the new series which has been mystifying.”
Principal of King’s Girls' Liz Spence said: “The Master Chef course has been a wonderful experience and one we are aiming to repeat. Paul is an inspirational Chef and I am so proud of the way the girls have responded to the challenges he set them.”
