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YOUTH CLUBBERS TAKE ON A SUPPER CLUB CHALLENGE AT CACTUS KITCHENS

Young chefs from Providence House Youth Club in Clapham Junction are getting busy at The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School at Cactus Kitchens in Clapham this week cooking up a big surprise for family and friends. The youngsters are taking part in a six-week afterschool supper club challenge served up...

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Cookery School of the Year serves up winning bowl of porridge

The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School’s winning streak continued yesterday when its bowl of “Autumn Smackdown Porridge” created by cookery school tutor, Roux Executive Chef Toby Stuart was declared runner-up in this year’s hotly contested Rude Health Porridge Championships. Judges, Rude Health...

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London Cookery School Shortlisted for Amazon Award

Cactus Kitchens has beaten off stiff competition to be one of eight finalists shortlisted for an Amazon Growing Business Award in the Micro Business category. The nomination comes only a few weeks after The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School at Cactus Kitchens was crowned Food & Travel Magazine Cookery...

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Clapham veterans’ charity enjoys spoils of War on Waste.

At one end of the street is the Michel Roux Jr Cookery School at Cactus Kitchens where top chefs teach students how to cook gourmet meals. At the other is veteran’s charity, the West Indian Association of Service Personnel (WASP). And although cookery school and charity are near neighbours in Clapham,...

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All female management team wins Cookery School of the Year

The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School in Clapham, London was honoured to be crowned 2016 Cookery School of the Year last night at the Food & Travel Magazine Reader awards celebrating the best in the worlds of food, drink and travel. Accepting the trophy at a ceremony at the RAC club on Pall Mall,...

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BREAD AND BUTTER WORK FOR BATTERSEA YOUNGSTERS AT THE MICHEL ROUX JR COOKERY SCHOOL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Girls and boys from the Providence House Youth Club in Clapham got their hands doughy recently when they visited their neighbourhood culinary hotspot, The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School to bake bread and make butter from scratch. Cookery School director Anna Ratcliffe is keen...

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Chinese New Year and the Original Wok Star

No one does Chinese food better than Ken Hom. It is 30 years since Ken set the nation wokking and our love affair with the wok doesn’t show any sign of cooling. Ken Hom is no flash in the pan. If you have a wok in your kitchen, chances are it’s got Ken Hom’s name on it. One in seven of us in...

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Clapham veterans’ charity enjoys spoils of War on Waste.

At one end of the street is the Michel Roux Jr Cookery School at Cactus Kitchens where top chefs teach students how to cook gourmet meals. At the other is veteran’s charity, the West Indian Association of Service Personnel (WASP). And although cookery school and charity are near neighbours in Clapham,...

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The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School Gives Celebrity Chef Experience to Battersea Youths in Summer Cookery Challenge

A leaflet through the door of the home of the cookery school’s Director, Anna Ratcliffe, asking for donations for a summer camp for the Battersea Summer Scheme, led the team to devise a summer challenge for youths to acquire culinary skills and food knowledge. The Michel Roux Jr Cookery School, located...