Cooking Practical: Cooking for Summer

This course is designed to explore the taste and textures of different summer seasonal foods, through preparing and cooking different foods and dishes associated with the summer months, both in Britain and around the rest of the world. Each week you will get a chance to prepare and cook. You will be encouraged to work in pairs, as a group, or individually to prepare and cook the foods and dishes. You will also research and learn about what is meant by seasonal summer foods. You will research what foods and dishes are associated with summer. You will have the opportunity to try the different textures and flavours of the foods and dishes you have prepared. For example, dishes made from vegetables and fruit that are grown and harvested in the summer months will be used in cooking. You will take part in researching what foods are grown and eaten during the summer months both in Britain and other countries around the world and to discuss the type of food and dishes you like to eat at this time of year and why you enjoy them. You will be encouraged to suggest different dishes to be prepared.