In Great Company for Cooking
Our team is small but dedicated. We’re proud of our cookery school and committed to providing you with a memorable stay.
Our team is efficient, polite and friendly. We always try to accommodate our guest’s requests no matter how unusual!
Ali Bilton
Head Tutor
Ali Bilton, has enjoyed an interesting and varied career before joining us as Head Tutor at Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School. She has set up her own business and has worked in private catering and restaurants in London, Spain and Hong Kong.
• Your guilty pleasure?...Dulce de leche
• How many cookery books?...Too many to count!
• Food Heaven?...Wild mushroom risotto
• Food Hell?...Sweetbreads
Linda Latus
Tutor
Linda first discovered her passion for food as a student at Bishop Burton College. Mastering the skills to produce good, flavourful food was inspirational to her and this lead to second passion, teaching. Linda returned to Bishop Burton College as a lecturer where she taught for 26 years.
• Favourite Celebrity Chef?...Michel Roux Jnr
• Favourite Food?...Real Italian
• Guilty pleasure?...Good red wine
• Food heaven?...Husband John cooking supper
Rachel Kirkwood
Tutor
Rachel’s love of cooking began as a child helping her mother make a range of delicious cakes and pastries for the family. Before teaching at Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School, Rachel completed Pru Leith's short advanced course and Bishop Burton's "School of Food and Wine" and the City and Guilds courses where she was taught by Linda Latus!
• Favourite Celebrity Chef?...Heston Blumenthal
• Your guilty pleasure?...Aperol
• How many cookery books?...168, maybe its time to shed a few!
• Food Hell?...Gristly meat
Sali Herman
Tutor
We are delighted to be joined by tutor Sali Herman. Sali, originally from Wales, lives in York. Before joining us Sali worked as a Teacher of Food Technology at a number of schools in North Yorkshire’. She regularly assists our guest chef, Steph Moon at shows and events around Yorkshire as well as working with her on recipe development.
• Favourite Celebrity Chef?.... Nigel Slater
• Food Heaven?.... Just baked Welsh cakes
• Store cupboard ingredient?... Smoked Garlic
• Guilty Pleasure?... Kettle crisps
Sally Gardner
Tutor
Sally is the newest member of the team.
In addition to working as a cook for private clients in lodges and houses around the country, she also works as a chef in an Edinburgh-based catering company. She works as a freelance cookery teacher at the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School, which is where she trained in 2015.
Prior to embarking on her cooking career, she worked as a secondary English teacher for ten years, so teaching is very much part of who she is and something she loves doing.
Alison Johnson
Business Development Manager
Alison has been part Yorkshire Wolds Cookery School since opening in 2010. Although having no previous experience in the catering or food industry she has always held a passion for fine food and is delighted to be helping run this increasingly popular venue for families, friends and business colleagues.
• Favourite Celebrity Chef?.... Mary Berry of course!
• Favourite Food?.... Thai
• How many cookery books do you own?... 57
• Food Hell?... Capers, Mustard and Horseradish – yuk!
