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Learn How To ‘En Papillote’

Learn how to ‘en papillote’, a unique cooking technique from our Cooking with Confidence course that wraps and cooks food in a sealed parchment paper package.

Recipe: Sea Bass en Papillote & Hasselback Potatoes

Transform Your Cooking: What You'll Learn in a Culinary Nutrition Course

Discover how a Culinary Nutrition Course can transform your approach to healthy eating. From mastering balanced diets to crafting bespoke meal plans, we explain the essential skills you'll gain to elevate your culinary and nutritional expertise.

Student Story: Fenella on her Teen's Kitchen experience

Now that school’s out for Summer we caught up with one of our Teens' Kitchen Students, Fenella, and asked her about her experience learning with Leiths Online. ‍‍‍‍

Recipe: Green Bean, Courgette and Artichoke Salad

Career Spotlight: How to Become a Private Chef

Working as a private chef is just one option of many open to people with a cooking qualification. To help you decide if it’s the career route for you, read our guide to everything you need to know about becoming a private chef.

Our Mentors’ Favourite Gadgets

What are the kitchen tools or appliances you simply could not live without? We put the question to our mentors and got quite an insight into how they manage their kitchens, both at home and even when they’re on holiday. We promise they aren’t on Microplane’s payroll!

Student Story: Nisha of Bollywood Bites

Nisha Riat enrolled on Leiths Online’s Essential Cooking in order to broaden her skillset. Her online studies reignited a passion for cooking that she has parlayed into her brand-new street food business Bollywood Bites. This is her story.

Leiths Mentors’ Food Heaven and Food Hell

It’s a question they famously ask on Saturday Kitchen: what’s your idea of food heaven and food hell? We asked our mentors and got some very surprising results.

Book Review: A Student’s Verdict on Verdura by Theo Randall

For our first book review, here’s former essential student Jenny on Theo Randall’s vegetarian Italian book Verdura.

La Vie en France: Heather’s Story, Part II

Leiths Online alumna Heather Lusardi and her partner Sam quit their jobs to pursue their dream of opening a gastronomic getaway in rural France.

Recipe: Thai Prawn Salad

When it’s so hot you don’t want to turn the oven on, spicy Asian salads come into their own. This Thai prawn salad from our Essential Cooking course asks you to do quite a bit of chopping but is the work of seconds to assemble on the plate.