The aim of this course is for you to learn a range of basic cooking skills, enabling you to produce simple but tasty and healthy dishes from scratch. The main goals are for you to develop confidence in a variety of cooking skills, to recognise ingredients that work together and to master the use of kitchen equipment, including knife handling. You will also learn how to carry out best hygienic practices and understand food safety hazards that may occur in a kitchen.The course is largely student-led, with the dishes taught being chosen with the learners' wishes and tastes in mind, with the goals moving towards areas that are decided upon democratically.