Tante Marie
Tante Marie Culinary Academy is a cookery school in Woking, Surrey, England. It is the United Kingdom's oldest independent cookery school, established in 1954 by the cookery writer Iris Syrett becoming the earliest Tante Marie Cooking School.
It was the first school in the UK to offer a Cordon Bleu Diploma, which forms the backbone of Tante Marie’s courses. Courses range in length from one day workshops in a particular sub-set of an area of cooking to the full-time one-year professional Cordon Bleu Diploma.
Iris Syrett died in 1964, after which Wendy Majerowicz became Principal. In 1967 the school moved to Woodham House, Carlton Road. John and Beryl Childs, who owned the school (1982-1999), continued the development of courses and curriculum into a programme that has become recognised as one of the world's leading independent providers of culinary training.
Marcella O’Donovan, one of the school's teachers, bought the school with the backing of her family in 1999. The O’Donovans oversaw the introduction of new courses to cater for the gap year and the amateur cook market, while at the same time maintaining the school's professional emphasis.
In April 2008, the school was bought by its then Deputy Principal, Andrew Maxwel with Gordon Ramsay Holdings and Lyndy Redding, a former graduate of the Intensive Cordon Bleu Diploma course who now owns Absolute Taste, a catering and events planning business based in London.
In May 2014 it was announced the school would be moving to a site in Woking town centre. The new base opened in the refurbished Alexander House, Commercial Way in early 2015. Two floors of the building housing the cookery school with training theatre kitchen, student kitchens and lectures rooms, plus a teaching restaurant with open-air seating along Commercial Way.[1]
References
- ↑ Stanton, Jenny (2 May 2014). "Tante Marie Culinary Academy moving to Woking town centre". getSURREY.
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