York Evening Press

CORDON bleu cook, Hilary Finney, set up her venture to teach people better cooking skills in 2006 to address what she thought was snobbery in cooking, with celebrity chefs making complicated dishes with expensive ingredients.

Hilary, who developed her love of cooking from her mother, Beris, set up in Harmony House, the 17th and 18th century home in The Green, Stillingfleet, which she also converted into a bed and breakfast.

Word spread and now about 1,000 people a year take advantage of Hilary’s cooking courses, with a fifth of them booking to stay in the B&B too.

Hilary, who has previously managed corporate events, run staff restaurants and run her own outside catering business, is now hoping her achievements at Harmony House Cookery School will be recognised at The Press Business Awards 2012, in which she has entered Small Business Of The Year and Tourism and Hospitality Business Of The Year.
 

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