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Fermentation Masterclass & Lunch

with Fermary - Elena Deminska

£95
Friday 20th
February 2026
11:00-14:30
(3.5hrs)
Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

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New Year, New Rituals: Everyday Fermentation for Gut Health & Energy

Start the year with vibrant energy, digestive support, and everyday flavour through the transformative power of fermentation.
This hands-on workshop is designed for anyone curious about gut health, fermented condiments, and bringing more intention (and joy) to how we eat.

Alongside Elena, the founder of FERMARY, you’ll learn how to make three beautiful and bold ferments -  a fermented hot sauce, a zingy probiotic salsa, and a crunchy water-based Giardiniera - all created with accessible seasonal ingredients and time-honoured methods. These everyday staples are designed to slot easily into your meals and rituals, helping you feel better without overhauling your life.

Together, you’ll gain confidence and practical skills for home fermentation beyond kimchi or kraut, understand the role of living foods in supporting digestion, and spark your creativity in the kitchen. 

The class ends with a fresh and flavourful tasting table, where you’ll experience how to use FERMARY ferments in real-life dishes: from fibre-rich salads and plant-based bowls to dips, toast toppers, and quick weeknight upgrades.

This class is the second in Elena’s Seasonal Fermentation Series at Divertimenti, each session bringing new recipes, new rituals, and a deeper connection to your gut and your food.


What’s included:

  • Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
  • Apron and all of the equipment required
  • A recipe pack for you to take home after your class
  • Take home two of your own ferments made in the class 
  • All ingredients provided and weighed out in advance for you
  • Delicious grazing lunch - created together as a class using Elena's recipes 
  • Goody bag with Fermary ferments to take home 
  • A discount code for future orders from the Fermary website 
  • 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items
  • We do all the washing up!

About Elena Deminska 

When Elena began turning leftover vegetables from their London fruit & vegetable shop into preserves, her husband said, “Why don’t you ferment them?” Knowing she had grown up with those traditions, it lit a spark. Combining inherited knowledge with deep food expertise, she began creating small-batch ferments that quickly went viral and grew into a widely loved fermentation brand. Later, this journey became FERMARY, a modern fermentation brand rooted in gut health, beauty, and the timeless wisdom of nature.

FERMARY is a modern, female-led brand offering premium, London-made fermented food, 100% raw, flavourful, and full of functional benefits. Designed to support gut health and elevate everyday meals, it's more than a brand, it’s a movement. Backed by decades of expertise, FERMARY celebrates fermentation and better living. Sign up for this brilliant hands on  class where you will learn new skills and chat to the founder of this exciting brand. Follow FERMARY here

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

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Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.



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