Adam Shaw is a Leiths Diploma alumnus and dad of three young boys. As the... Read more

After winning Best Pitch on our How to Start Up a Successful Business course, Tom Geoffrey went on to become the chef and founder of Barang Street Kitchen, a Cambodian street food concept and pop-up. Tom tells us about his love for Cambodian food, his plans for Barang, and how attending Leiths' food business course helped him achieve his dreams. Read more

Former Leiths student Maria Bradford was born and raised in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone in West Africa. She now lives in Kent, where she runs Shwen Shwen (meaning ‘fancy’ in her native Krio), a high-end catering company, supper club, and online stores specialising in Sierra Leonean cuisine. Her debut cookbook Sweet Salone (after the nickname locals use for Sierra Leone) will be published by Quadrille in 2023. Read more

Sam Pointon’s future was all mapped out: school, university, job. Then Covid struck, giving him a chance to press pause on his university studies and explore his passion for food. Now graduated from Leiths with a Diploma in Food and Wine, he tells his story. Read more

George Dyer is executive chef and area manager with Ski Famille, a family ski holiday specialist with chalets in the French Alps. Here he explains why a ski season is the perfect job opportunity for any chef at the start of their career and why a Leiths qualification puts candidates on the front of the queue. Read more

Caitlin Walsh knew early on that she wanted to be a chef. She chose not to go to university after A Levels in order to enrol at Leiths, where she was awarded Student of the Year in 2018. Now a chef de partie in pastry at Harrods, Caitlin was this year crowned Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Young Pastry Chef of the Year. Read more

When Louisa Matthews was planning her gap year she took the opportunity to enrol at Leiths and gain valuable hospitality experience. As she prepares to take up her deferred university place, she tells us what her culinary education and experience has done for her. Read more

​Tom Calver of Westcombe Dairy in Somerset did his professional diploma at Leiths before returning to his family’s farm and devoting himself to cheesemaking. His award-winning cheeses can now be found in fine food stores and Michelin star restaurants. Tom is a leading spokesperson for British artisan cheese and regenerative agriculture practices. Read more

​The time has come for us to say goodbye and good luck to the Class of ‘22, the brilliant students – now qualified chefs – who did their Three-Term Diploma in Food and Wine at Leiths this last year. Four of our recent graduates reflect on their experience. Read more

​Italian-born Sam Newman completed his Diploma in Food and Wine at Leiths in 2013 before setting up Hackney Gelato with Enrico Pavoncelli in 2015. Hackney Gelato’s award-winning gelati and sorbetti now sell everywhere from independent delis to Ocado, Harrods, and Michelin star restaurants. Read more