Wickedfood Cooking School is an ideal venue for corporate entertaining, whether it be team building, a relaxing way of rewarding staff, building relationships with customers, or getting to know colleagues. In anticipation of the world cup, for those who are not particularly interested in soccer, but still want to get into the spirit of things, from now until the end of July Wickedfood Cooking School has developed a unique competition cooking concept, the 2010 Wickedfood Culinary World Cup Challenge.

2010 Wickedfood Culinary World Cup Challenge

Wickedfood Cooking School has identified the 10 participating soccer teams with the most interesting cuisine and drawn up a representative 6-dish menu for each national team. The class is divided into two groups, each representing one of these national teams, and cooks the relevant menu. We supply the ingredients and recipes for each team. Apart from the fun aspect, this is also a novel way of entertaining clients, a great form of teambuilding, or ideal opportunity of assessing various staff members’ abilities to work together and solve common problems. Once all the dishes are cooked, our judging panel, will choose the winning team and then the participants sit down and enjoy the 2 respective meals they have prepared.

What is included in the price?

• A set of recipes for each participant to take home;
• All ingredients and the use of aprons to wear while cooking (we also have branded aprons for sale and with enough lead-in time can have these embroidered with company logos);
• Teas, coffees (on request) and soft drinks in the morning classes; limited white and red house wine by the glass, and soft drinks in the evening classes;
• The meal at the end. Bring only your enthusiasm.

About Wickedfood Cooking Schools

(see our website for more information)

Wickedfood Cooking School is an educational facility, offering tuition in a wide range of culinary skills to the public and corporate world in a fun, safe environment. We run classes (subject to a minimum of 12 people) throughout the year at our purpose-built cooking studios, in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week. The venue is also available for corporate and private functions – birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

Our first classes were run from restaurant premises in Illovo in October 2001. In May 2002, the school was moved to a purpose-built kitchen in Fourways. Our newest school opened in Sunninghill in August 2007. The school can accommodate up to 60, in hands-on classes in state-of-the-art, purpose-built, teaching kitchens and offer over 30 classes (including special halaal options) specifically for the corporate and group market.

See the Programme section on our website for a list of the wide variety of classes available.

For more information on the 2010 Wickedfood Culinary World Cup Challenge, please contact Wickedfood Cooking School - Tel: 011 234-3252.

When Wickedfood Cooking School hosted the 2nd team building cooking class for Discovery, we were slightly concerned when only a handful of people arrived instead of the full number who had confirmed. But as everyone started to put their aprons on, without any help required, I felt a little more re-assured and hopeful that there were a couple of keen cooks in the mix. I wasn’t disappointed, as everyone dived into the Portuguese dishes with enthusiasm and a willingness to soak up all the information on hand. Mino being the “rose amougst the thorns” decided to be in charge of the grilled salad and the Creme Caramel and did a fantastic job in showing the ladies that men can do two things at once. We started with Rhoda’s excellent Kale soup followed by the main course of Lolly’s fragrent Bay Leaf Potatoes, Maria’s excellent Chicken Peri-Peri and Vivian’s Chicken Livers which were amazing with just the right amount of chilies accourding to Mino (which I have to agree with). All those who partisipated in this Portuguese cooking class had a great time and despite the limited number of hands everyone worked really well as a team and therefore the proof was in the pudding.

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Boksburg – (011) 823-5365 boksburg@wickedfood.co.za

Runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

Wickedfood Cooking School had a fabulous time with the 1st teambuilding group of many from Discocovey. Our Spanish cooking class was chosen and to the delight of eveyone, the 7 dishes prepared all came out fantastic. Special mention must go out to the team that baked the Orange and Almond cake as it happens to be a firm favourite at Wickedfood and it didnt dissapoint at all. Not to take anything away from the rest of the group who all agreed that with a little bit of guidence and practice practice practice, anything is possible. Now armed with a few Spanish dishes, I wish you all the best of luck in your future culinary expeditions in the kitchen.

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Boksburg – (011) 823-5365 boksburg@wickedfood.co.za

Runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.