Meet The Chef Tutor: Abinger Chef Jake Pinn

Meet The Chef Tutor: Abinger Chef Jake Pinn

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] ICSA Cookery Schools are selected and ‘Accredited’ for their consistent quality teaching standards and cookery facilities. Providing reassurance to cooks and students of all levels,...
Choosing Your Accredited Cookery School

Choosing Your Accredited Cookery School

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since the COVID pandemic, many of us fell back in love with home cookery, seeking methods to improve cookery skills firstly on-line via YouTube lessons, and more recently in person across the UK’s cookery schools. But how do...
Sustainability

Sustainability

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sustainability is a multi-layered opportunity for meaningful change. It can be personal, local, national, multi-national and global, says Stella West-Harling MBE, president of Independent Cookery Schools Association...
ICSA Supports #CookForUkraine

ICSA Supports #CookForUkraine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] SUPPORT #COOKFORUKRAINE WITH ICSA COOKERY SCHOOLS As Russia invaded Ukraine, the world watched on with, initially, horror. Devastation that this could be happening, pain at the horrific imagery rolling in and deep, distressing...
Gourmet Britain Consumer Survey Results

Gourmet Britain Consumer Survey Results

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] GOURMET BRITAIN | POST-PANDEMIC DINING AND LEISURE TRENDS 2021 A recent industry annual Gourmet Britain Food & Lifestyle Survey, which asked over 1000 consumer members of a dining club and the wider public to share their plans...
British Food Fortnight

British Food Fortnight

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] British Food Fortnight [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] British Food Fortnight was launched on 18th September and will run until 3rd October. It’s a chance to celebrate everything that’s wonderful about British-grown produce, from...
ICSA Expands In Scotland

ICSA Expands In Scotland

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] New ICSA Member In Scotland: Station House Cookery School [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Scotland’s ‘Station House Cookery School’ Awarded Kite-mark of Quality by  ‘ICSA’...
New Entry Level Category for New Members

New Entry Level Category for New Members

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] COOKERY SCHOOL ‘ASSOCIATE’ This year ICSA has launched a new level of membership for cookery schools who aspire to accreditation, but are perhaps not quiet ready and may need a little more support and guidance prior to assessment....
ICSA Partnernship with CTH

ICSA Partnernship with CTH

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Independent Cookery Schools Association (ICSA) is pleased to announce a formal partnership with The Confederation of Tourism and Hospitality (CTH). ICSA is the only independent, not-for-profit, regulatory body for cookery...
ICSA PPE Assurance

ICSA PPE Assurance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]All ICSA Accredited cookery Schools who display our ‘ICSA Assurance’ Kite Mark have agreed to adhere to the below minimum standards. Support All PPE will be Hospital Grade All member schools have the option to temperature check...
ICSA Assessment Process

ICSA Assessment Process

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Accreditation Assessment Process and Procedures By Andrew Maxwell, ICSA Founder Member and Accreditation Inspector[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]ICSA was founded in 2014 by industry leaders,...