Create and Cook 2010
Create and Cook is an innovative, new cookery competition for secondary schools across Hampshire. It was devised by Andy Mackenzie, Executive Chef at Lainston House Hotel near Winchester and fit2cook food education. We set up the competition because we wanted to engage the younger generation with really good local produce. We wanted to inspire young cooks to design creative menus using food grown locally.
Hampshire is a county that has some outstanding food producers and some of the best farm shops and farmers markets in the country. Our local food landscape includes crab and mackerel for the coast, lamb from the downland and watercress and trout in our chalk streams. Hampshire produces apple juice from the orchards and rapeseed oil from the arable land. We hope through Create and Cook young people will discover and enjoy cooking with some of these fantastic local ingredients and will start to support and cherish their local sustainable food economy. After all, eventually the future of local food will be in their hands.
Last year we discovered cooks Hayley Ward and Rachel Meadows from The Toynbee School in Chandler’s Ford who impressed the judges at the final at Newlyns Farm Cookery School near Hook. They cooked with confidence, showed great team work and used good local produce simply and effectively.
See the 2010 winners and their menus
(pdf files - right click & save)
2010 video coming soon
This year we have discovered some fantastic new cooks Jack Newbery and Kenan Pawley from Bay House School, Gosport who impressed the judges at the final at Newlyns Farm Cookery School near Hook. They cooked with skill and passion using an impressive array of locally produced Hampshire ingredients."
fit2cook is grateful for the sponsorship of The Southern Co-operative Co-op Stores.
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