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). For ICSA cookery school members, signing up…
ICSA member schools focus on sourcing not only regionally where possible but also seasonally; ingredients are chosen to reflect the seasons, to ensure relevance. Buying seasonally is also far better value for money, as regional, seasonal ingredients are…
Championing Animal Welfare & Responsible Farming is one of the core values of ICSA member cookery schools. During World Wars I and II, those who were not out fighting in the trenches or on the beaches,…
ICSA has long focused on sustainability as one of their core values, and this year made it a core mission for their accredited cookery schools to move to teaching about and aspiring to minimal or zero single…
ICSA schools are committed to using the best ingredients and some ICSA cookery schools even grow their own food; it doesn’t come more local than that! The wonderful renaissance in British food, helped along by TV chefs, pioneering restaurants,…