RICE! Malaysian Cooking Demo, Book Signing & tasting!

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RICE! Malaysian Cooking Demo, Book Signing & tasting!

Name: RICE! Malaysian Cooking Demo, Book Signing & tasting!
Brand: Ping Coombes
Price: 45.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Ping Coombes

£45

Tuesday 24th
February 26

18:30-20:30
(2hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Let Ping transport you to Malaysia via the wealth of variety of recipes based around the stable ingredient of RICE.

A stunning celebration of rice with over 100 recipes from Malaysia and her neighbours, from Ping Coombes, guest judge on MasterChef.

Rice is a symbol of life, prosperity and abundance in many Southeast Asian countries and a staple food all across the world. For Ping, growing up in Malaysia rice was always the sun around which all other dishes revolved.

In this beautiful homage to rice, Ping offers advice and timeless recipes that will make this a book for every rice-loving cook to treasure. She explains whether to wash rice, the different ways to cook it perfectly, how to reheat it safely, why sticky rice isn't simply overcooked rice and how to elevate your rice-eating experience.

What’s included:
- A welcome cocktail or something sparkly 🥂
- A chance to buy a copy of RICE & have it signed by Ping
- Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
- Tasters of the demonstrated dishes enjoy together as a class accompanied by a glass of wine or soft refreshments
- 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

Ping Coombes

Ping Coombes first won MasterChef in 2014, stunning the judges with food inspired by her Malaysian heritage and once again did so when she won BBC MasterChef Champion of Champions in 2022 where she competed with the previous champions making her the first double MasterChef Champion. She was also named as one of Asia’s Most Influential Person by Tatler in 2022. Born and raised in the town of Ipoh in Malaysia, which is famous for its pomelo fruit, chicken noodles and Ipoh white coffee, Ping grew up with amazing food around her and was inspired by her mother’s cookery. She began to inherit traditional skills, starting with the basics - how to hold the ‘wok chan’ (the ladle). Perhaps most inspiring to Ping was her mother’s way of showing love and passion through cooking, something which is hugely important in Ping’s food ethos. Having lived in the UK and travelled around Europe, she draws inspiration from her heritage but delivers her food with modern twists adapting to ingredients that can be found locally.

She champions Malaysian cuisine in the UK and is a proud ambassador for Malaysian food and flavours. Her recipes are frequently featured in various prominent food magazines and newspapers including Delicious, BBC Good Food Magazine, Waitrose Weekend as well as their Waitrose At Home series online. She has given talks on TED and the world stage such as The World Economic Forum.

Ping is a regular judge on MasterChef UK and also appeared in The Good Food Channel’s John Torode’s Malaysian Adventure, Nadiya’s Simple spices on BBC2 and hosted a few cooking videos on Waitrose Youtube Channel. She has guest cheffed on popular daytime talk shows such as ITV This Morning and Sunday Brunch.

Ping’s first book MALAYSIA has topped the Best Seller list on Amazon and regularly features in the movers and shakers list. MALAYSIA is also published in America and has been translated into Dutch. MALAYSIA won the Asia category in the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Ping is also a contributor to three other MasterChef Cookbooks, MasterChef Streetfood and MasterChef Kitchen Bible, MasterChef The Classics with a Twist and recently a charity cookbook These Delicious Things aim to raise funds for Magic Brekky.

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.