Cookery Schools and Demos

Farm to Fork in Northern Ireland

Food is a key ingredient in Northern Ireland’s culture. Our lush landscape supports strong agricultural traditions and in recent years our local produce has gained international recognition for its quality and uniqueness.

You can also pick up the traditional artisan skills required to make authentic sausages in evening classes with Fermanagh butcher Pat O’Doherty. Using outdoor-reared pork, fresh herbs, and natural casings, one workshop will teach you to master the basics for delicious, hand-linked Irish sausages.

Alternatively you can follow the well-beaten track to Ditty’s Home Bakery and Coffee Shop, Castledawson, where master baker Robert Ditty holds popular evening classes in bread-making and cake decorating. He now also indulges his love of chocolate with truffle making classes in a specially converted workshop, Shanemullagh.

Or how about treating a friend or loved one to the perfect gift for foodies!  A short break at the Portferry Hotel,  Spend an afternoon working with renowned Chef Gary Bell in his kitchen, as you learn how to select flavours and seasonings and work with some of the finest seasonal ingredients available, then enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.   

Northern Ireland’s Cookery Schools

No ‘foodie’ should leave our shores without exercising their culinary skills and using our local produce at one of Northern Ireland’s cookery schools. Spread across the region the cookery schools all have their individual specialities from seafood caught metres away from where it will be prepared to classes in traditional home baking.