The Ireland's best cookery courses

                The UK has produced generations of excellent chefs and cooks, So the presence of a strong culinary arts education system is a testament to Britain's enduring gastronomic traditions. TV food culture has elevated some accomplished English chefs to celebrity status recently. Among them are Jamie Oliver, formerly known as The Naked Chef, and recent author of the Ministry of Food, and quick-tempered Gordon Ramsay of Hell's Kitchen fame. However, Food TV should not diminish the accomplishments of so many UK educated chefs who have left their marks on England's epicurean landscape. The land of noon tea and crumpets, bangers and mash, and Yorkshire pudding hosts a handful of excellent culinary arts schools, each amply equipped to lanch your international culinary career. The staples of a Londoners diet are present, including fish and chips and baked meat pies, but curries and other Asian interpretations challenge the blend perception of old-school English fare.

• Mini chefs, Masham, North Yorkshire

                                      If your children like cooking and are at a loose end over October half term, head to Masham. Book in to one of Bivouac's yurts or shacks and spend a few days enjoying the Yorkshire Dales and expanding your campfire cooking repertoire before signing your fledling chef up for a half-day cooking course at neighbouring Swinton Park.

• Indian cookery masterclass,Wakefield, West Yorkshire

                                Prett Tejura's Wakefield-based but Gujarati-influenced cookery courses have won a wide following. Students on her regular one-day masterclasses are encouraged to steer away from jars of jalfrezi sauce- and the takeaway- and pick up the skills to cook a curry from scratch. All Tejura's masterclasses cover essential herbs and spices, masala sauce or paste, side dishes and Indian breads.

• Cookery essentials, Edinburgh

                              For upping your culinary game in a short time, this intensive three-day course covers most bases. Award-winning Edinburgh New Town Cookery School aims the course at novices, teaching everything from knife skills and meat browning to cakes, bread, pastry, fish and veg.

• Dinner party weekend, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh

                                In a world of supper clubs,niche diets, social media,and restaurant cultism, hosting friends for supper had become outmoded it argued. Tell that to cookery schools such as Belle Isle, in country Fermanagh on the historic Belle Isle estate. Its dinner-party cooking classes are its most popular and its next , one is at the end of November, focusing on pratical but inspiring recipes and techniques using local, seasonal produce and adapting these for different seasons and ingredients.