Important award for Wiltshire cookery school

By Barrie Hudson - 3 October 2022

Business
  • James Day from ICSA, left, with Catherine Maxwell and Peter Vaughan from the school

    James Day from ICSA, left, with Catherine Maxwell and Peter Vaughan from the school

Vaughan’s Kitchen Cookery School has been awarded a prestigious kitemark of quality and accreditation.

The accolade was given by leading regulatory body the Independent Cookery School Association (ICSA).

The Devizes-based school runs a wide range of bespoke artisan cookery courses to train both novice cooks and aspiring chefs and professionals in a broad range of artisan skills and cuisines. 

ICSA accredited schools undergo rigorous assessments to ensure consistent delivery of excellence in cookery skills and training, as well as other criteria such as adhering to strict standards of environmental sustainability and continued support for British farmers and seasonal produce.

According to the organisation, accreditation from a recognised industry body such as ICSA is also vital for aspiring chefs to be able to further their professional careers within the hospitality industry and other related culinary professions. 

Aspiring domestic chefs can also gain new transferrable skills to improve their culinary knowledge and applications in their home kitchens including knife skills, world food courses and nutritional understandings for both young and old. 

James Day, Director of Operations at ICSA, said: “We’re thrilled to have awarded Vaughan's Kitchen Cookery School and team with the ICSA kite-mark and status accreditation. 

"It’s a mark of trust and quality that gives people complete assurance that the cookery school is operating to the highest standards of training. Additionally due to their overall high scoring and focus on professional courses, they also achieved our prestigious 'Academy' status for professional teaching standards.

“As well as being sustainable, seasonable and regionally sourced where possible, all our ICSA accredited cookery schools aim to teach zero waste principles in foods and packaging. Through ICSA, we aim to help shape Britain’s culinary landscape by championing chefs and schools who work to the highest standards, sharing professionally trained transferable skills to a wider market of food consumers. 

"Consumers seeking a professional cookery experience should aim to seek out an ICSA accredited cookery school, displaying our up to date kitemark as a seal of quality consistent teaching standards.”

Peter Vaughan, the school's Executive Chef/Director and Member of Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and Catherine Maxwell, Course Director were delighted to receive the commendation. 

They said in a joint statement: “Anybody can learn to cook and should never stop learning, however skilled they may be. It is paramount to learn solid foundation culinary skills and methods at a quality cookery school. 

"ICSA ensures that its members adhere to the same universal goals, making sure their guests are learning from skilled tutors, who put environmental awareness and sustainability at the forefront of their culinary teaching practices."

"Vaughan’s Kitchen Cookery School is proud to be an ‘Academy’ member of ICSA. We share its core principles with our customers and our fellow ICSA schools.”

Further information can be found at www.icsacookeryschools.org and www.vaughanskitchen.co.uk

 

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