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Rosie is cooking up a career as chef
Rosie Dunningham, aged 22, (pictured above) has recently graduated from the Ashburton Chefs Academy after achieving a Certificate in Professional Cookery. Here she talks about her motivation for taking the course and what she hopes to do next. “Cooking became a huge passion during my first year of university, where I had to learn to cook myself in order to eat well! “I discovered a love of baking, so started to write a baking blog that I still keep up now. “I love cooking meals for friends and family, especially anything Middle Eastern from Ottolenghi, and after everyone saying how I should pursue food properly and make a career out of it, I decided they were right. “I chose to do the course at the Ashburton Cookery School as it really appealed to me due to its professionalism and the fact that I could fit it in during a break from university. “It proved to be absolutely
fantastic. Everything in the kitchen is super modern, shiny and state of the art. I can’t express enough how impressed I was with the facilities. “The chef tutors were incredible and truly made the
course special; it was honestly the best thing I’ve ever done. It even enabled me to get my first cooking job, which was amazing. I feel ready to get a job in a kitchen after I’ve completed my degree. “After the course I signed up
with a number of catering job agencies and I and another girl from the course secured a two-week job as private chefs for a family in their holiday home in St Tropez. We prepared breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and a
two-course dinner every day for a family of five, with five guests, and one night we did a dinner party for 28 people. Before Ashburton I would never have thought I was capable of doing something like that.
“My plan is to try and get a job as a crew chef on a yacht and I might try and do some ski chalet chef work, or even look for an apprenticeship in a restaurant. My goal is to work in a fine dining establishment one day!”
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