Nothing beats a home-cooked meal shared with family! And this is what inspires our Family Style Cookery Classes, a fun, laid-back homestyle cooking experience. Here, you will learn to prepare different dishes and then enjoy them with people who, like you, fuel our mission of supporting refugee and migrant chefs on their journey to integration. It’s a cookery class with a conscience, like they say!

Your class will be led by our wonderful Chef Michelle from Trinidad and Tobago at Holdspace in Angel, London.

At our Family Style Cookery Classes, you will be grouped with other participants and prepare dishes together as a team. Think of Chef Michelle as the head of the family! She will take care of dividing the class into groups, and each group will be responsible for creating one of the dishes. Of course, you are welcome and encouraged to move around during the class to learn about the other dishes being prepared. Throughout the evening, Chef Michelle will share stories about their food and culture, and explain how to prepare each of the dishes so you come away with some new cooking tricks and inspiration from Trinidad. You will also be emailed the recipes after the class.

Menu, subject to change:

Trini Bake and Shark | Fish (Pollock); Fish, Gluten, Milk
Dhal Puri Roti (Roti with Split Pea, Spinach and Potato Filling)| Vegetarian; Gluten

Pigeon Pea Pelau | Vegetarian; Celery
Stewed Chicken | Meat (Chicken); None
Corn Vegetable Soup | Vegan; `Celery
Michelle’s Coleslaw, Mango Chutney and Sauces| Vegetarian; Eggs
Coconut Sugar Cake | Vegan; None

This menu contains meat (chicken) and fish but is vegetarian friendly (5/7 dishes are meat-free). Allergens include: eggs, fish, gluten, milk, celery.

Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements so our team is aware ahead of the class, but kindly note that we will not be substituting any ingredients to accommodate dietary needs, so please only book into classes that suit your dietary requirements. Please see our Food and Allergen Policy when booking into the class for more information.

A message from our Chef Michelle:

“My name is Michelle. I am from the lovely island nation of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean and I am the mother of two daughters. My cooking journey started over 25 years ago when I was just 10. My mother had to go to work, leaving me to cook for my two younger siblings. At first, I made some pretty awful dishes but with my mother’s help and encouragement, I got better. At her suggestion, I started cooking school and soon I was creating new dishes on my own. I then trained at the Trinidad and Tobago International Hilton Hotel and worked as a sous chef at the Carlton Savannah Hotel when Queen E stayed there in 2009. When the hotel closed, I first started cooking for homeless people and then for children with additional needs. I became a mother figure for many of the kids and some of the older people. I have been volunteering for Praxis charity for the last year, a charity that helps support people on their immigration journey.

In addition to cooking, I am passionate about music, dancing and laughing! Come to my class and experience a bit of T and T culture, the flavours of Trinidad and have some fun!”

We’re excited to have you in the class! Please take note of a few final reminders:

We will send you a reminder email 3 days before the class takes place.
We require a certain number of participants to run this class and reserve the right to cancel it due to insufficient enrolment. If this occurs, we will, at your convenience, transfer you to another class of your choice of the same value. If this option does not suit you, you will have the choice to receive either a gift voucher for the class or a full refund. In the case of insufficient enrolment, we will inform you at least 6 days before the class.
Payments made through Paypal can take up to 48 hours to have the order confirmed. To guarantee your spot in a cookery class we recommend using a debit or credit card.
We only process refunds and ticket transfers if we are notified 7 days before the class takes place. No changes are allowed if the class is missed. When you register for this event, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. If you are not able to attend the class, you can pass on your tickets so someone else can attend on your behalf.
Ingredients used in our classes contain, may contain, or may have been manufactured/prepared on shared equipment with the 14 allergens listed above. We cannot guarantee that any food or drink prepared or consumed in any of the Migrateful Cookery Classes are free from any of the 14 allergens, or any other ingredient. Migrateful’s Cookery Classes are hosted in our busy cookery school or in external venues that handle allergens. Even in classes where allergens are not used, the ingredients for the class may have been stored in close proximity to allergens and other ingredients, and/or equipment and surfaces may have previously come into contact with allergens and other ingredients. Participants attend classes at their own risk.

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