Leiths’ Essential Cooking Certificate is designed to suit both aspiring professional chefs as well as keen amateurs. Two recent students – current home cook student Justin Lande and Dominique Woolf, owner of The Woolf’s Kitchen and winner of Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge – share what the course has meant to them. Read more

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This recipe is a great vegan alternative to the traditional Burns Supper... Read more

Chris Rowley left behind a career in banking to enrol on the Leiths Diploma. The risk paid off. He was Student of the Year 2015, and a year later opened Ballintaggart Farm and Cook School in Perthshire. We caught up with him ahead of Burns Night, the annual celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns, on January 25th. Read more

Food stylist, recipe writer and Leiths alumna Saskia Sidey (Diploma class of 2018) wrote her first cookbook Broke Vegan during the 2020 lockdown with her newborn baby strapped to her chest, while her wife and co-creative Jo took care of photography. The follow-up Broke Vegan: Speedy is out now, providing heaps more plant-based, planet-friendly inspiration for dishes that can be on the table in under half an hour. We caught up with Saskia to find out more. Read more

Born in London, raised in Venice, cook, author and Leiths food-writing alumna Skye McAlpine has made an art of entertaining at home. Her style shines through in her line of tableware Skye McAlpine Tavola, in her collaborations with the likes of Anthropologie and chic stationery brand Papier, but above all in her cookery writing which exudes the grace, and confidence we all aspire to. Her book A Table For Friends subtitled ‘The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty’, feels particularly pertinent this festive season, as we stay in and enjoy intimate soirées. Read more

It’s Great British Game Week. Leiths alumnus Joshua Hunter, now head chef at Holland & Holland, shares his top tips to up your game game. Read more

What does life after Leiths look like in a pandemic? Read more

The kids classic – but with a twist! A nutritious sweet treat shared by... Read more