FOOD
The Good Web Guide Cookery Schools Directory
www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/cookery-schools-directory
If it’s the perfect cookery school you’re after, then our hand-picked assortment is the perfect place to start, with detailed reviews straight from the experienced hands of our food editor Emily Jenkinson - simple, straightforward advice at its best.
Delia Smith
www.deliaonline.com
If you’d rather stay in the comfort of your own kitchen, then it’s online tutorials you need - Delia has a vast selection on her domain; it’s packed with video techniques, such as layering and icing cakes, zesting and juicing as well as a myriad of other food preparation techniques.
Sorted Food
www.sortedfood.com
Is another domain well worth looking into, a newer site that’s nevertheless packed with ‘food, recipes, videos and banter.’ If it’s an informal approach you’re looking for then Sorted Food, the site that sports the largest cooking community on YouTube can’t fail to provide with its bounty of videos (from full on recipes to simple tips and tricks).
LANGUAGES
Languages GoLearnTo
www.golearnto.com/language-courses
If you’ve had enough of the conventional ‘je m’apelle’ approach to learning, then GoLearnTo is a site to behold. It’s all about immersing yourself in the language through the experiential trips of a lifetime - and what trips they are, from creative sojourns to more practical trips with a special focus on cookery, sports or wellbeing. It’s all there in abundance.
Rosetta Stone
www.rosettastone.co.uk
The legendary Rosetta Stone series is not without its strengths, and they certainly deserve a mention with years of experience speaks at their fingertips. Maximising your time online is what it’s all about, with free samples, special offers and the ability to learn at your own pace.
MISCELLANEOUS
The School of Life
‘Good ideas for everyday life’ is the tagline and this is the academy that more than delivers with its incredible rosta of life affirming, mind expanding courses on everything from How to Find a Job You Love to Philosophy Mind Games. If you yearn for the lost days of further education (no we weren’t concentrating either) – then this is the school where you can turn over a whole new leaf.
The Idler Academy
www.idler.co.uk/academy
‘Cultivated leisure’ are the buzzwords at Idler, and boy do they belie an informative, educational rosta of courses that will change the way you think about, well, almost anything. Lectures, supper clubs – there’s even a Ukelele Player of the Year competition. If you want to think outside the box, just idle away a few hours on this elegant domain.
The How To: Academy
A cornucopia of ‘compact courses for people who think big’, How To (the brainchild of eponymous entrepreneur John Gordon) is the newest academy on the block and boy is it causing a stir in the circles that matter – why? Primarily because the quality of tutors is first rate. Want to learn to write a thriller of a lifetime? Then book onto an eight-week course with New York Times Bestseller Charles Cumming, or alternatively get inside Wagner’s head with Simon Callow… They’re just two examples amongst a jam packed rosta of upcoming events designed to disrupt, delight and enlighten.
Faber Academy
If creative writing is where you’d love to excel, then the Faber Academy should be your first port of call. One of the most respected publishing houses (and for good reason) offers up its quite considerable expertise for the greater good, and a whole slew of authors are being discovered as a result. You could be one of them.
AND DON’T FORGET
The Goodlife Centre
Are you fed up with relying on others to tackle jobs in your home and want to do it yourself but just don't know how? Then The Goodlife Centre can help with its wide range of practical workshops from its HQ based in London's Waterloo. From DIY and home maintenance to high-end decorative arts classes, decorating and upholstery, furniture upcycling and handcrafts, there’s a course to suit everyone.
August 2013.