The Chefs

Stephen Bulmer

Stephen Bulmer joins the Swinton Park Cookery School in 2013 as Chef Director with over twenty years’ experience at Michelin level restaurants throughout Europe, and having been Chef Director of the Raymond Blanc Cookery School for ten years and run his own school at Brook Hall in Buckinghamshire. Stephen is running Two Day, One Day and Half Day Courses, along with the Chef’s Table and Pre-Dinner Canape Demonstration Experiences.

Stephen rose to prominence early in his career, reaching the national finals of the Young Chef of the Year in 1992 and 1993 and the semi-finals of the Roux Brothers’ Scholarship competition. Since then he has appeared on various TV programmes including Ready, Steady, Cook and Total Fishing.

He is also is widely acknowledged to be one the leading cookery school tutors in the UK. He combines his top-level cookery skills with a gregarious personality, a winning combination – ‘He is one of my most experienced chefs and a great craftsman – his enthusiasm is completely infectious’, commented Raymond Blanc.

Cooking has taken Stephen all over the world, and he has an extensive portfolio of skills and styles of cooking. During his cooking career he has cooked Italian cuisine at Zafferano, Knightsbridge; Thai cuisine at Nahm, London and Japanese cuisine at Nobu, London.

Rosemary Shrager

The celebrated TV chef will be returning to Swinton Park to run seasonal day courses during 2013, Summer and Autumn Entertaining Masterclasses.

Rosemary is a legendary teacher and has been teaching at Swinton Park for over 10 years. She has an infectious enthusiasm and passion for food.

Gilly Robinson

Gilly is Rosemary’s demonstration assistant during her courses and, as a working mother and a Girl Guide Leader, she has always championed nutritious wholesome family food.

Her Children’s Cookery Courses also inspire children to enjoy and experiment with cooking themselves. She also runs the Christmas in a Box afternoon course.

Prett Tejura

Prett is the brains behind the highly successful Curry Cuisine spice label, and now also runs our Friday night Curry Club and the Indian Masterclass Day Courses. With her roots in India, she draws on influences from different ingredients and styles of food throughout Asia.

Chris Bax

Chris is the instructor on our Wild About Food day courses, our Hunter Gatherer courses in the parkland and also our Back to Nature foraging and survival skills courses for private groups. Chris trained as a chef, before venturing into wild food. As recently seen on BBC’s Countryfile, Chris is passionate about living from the land and preserving rural skills.