Sitting down to lunch
The last Sunday in October – ferociously hot and blowy and even more so high up on Coopers Shoot – saw a small group of eight people attend a cooking class whose theme was Three Course Italian Lunch. I took the group through demonstrations of Olive Tart with the world’s simplest olive oil pastry; beef in spicy red wine sauce; and beurre bosc pears poached in white wine, lemon, cinnamon and vanilla. Then they all cooked! Chilled Pinot Grigio flowed as did the conversation – six women and two men – before we all settled down at the long table set divinely by the so-stylish Anna Middleton, and ate lunch. Next cooking class in the same heavenly location will be the last Sunday in November, the 30th, with eight people already booked in so only four spots left…
