Cook. Demo. Teach.
How to Deliver a Successful Cooking Demonstration
Learn How to Deliver Successful Cooking Demonstrations
Are you ready to take the stage and share your love of cooking with confidence? ‘Cook. Demo. Teach.’ is your step-by-step guide to planning and delivering successful cooking demonstrations that will leave a lasting impression.
Whether you’re a passionate chef, home cook, nutrition professional, or a passionate foodie, this course will provide you with the key skills needed to make your cooking demonstrations truly memorable.
Why Choose 'Cook. Demo. Teach.'?
With over 20 years of expertise packed into one course, Maggie Lynch, Director of Cooking at the International Institute of Nutrition and Health, brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Specialising in crafting and adapting recipes for all dietary needs, including food intolerances, Maggie has been delivering live cookery demonstrations for two decades and online classes for the past five years.
Maggie has created ‘Cook. Demo. Teach.’ in response to the numerous requests from IINH students and external parties looking for practical advice and guidance.
Drawing on her own journey, Maggie shares key insights into what it takes to prepare and deliver effective, innovative and well-structured cooking demonstrations. She covers the important steps and learning points, whilst offering practical tips and techniques to ensure success at every stage of the process.
Maggie’s passion infuses this course, which will equip you with the knowledge and guidance needed to deliver truly memorable cooking demonstrations.
Key Benefits:
- Practical Techniques: Step-by-step guidance on planning, delivering, and refining your cooking demonstrations.
- Audience Connection: Learn how to engage and inspire your audience, whether in-person or online.
- Expert Insights: Unlock Maggie’s proven tips and strategies for successful culinary presentations.
Who is 'Cook. Demo. Teach.' for?
This course is designed for a wide range of professionals and enthusiasts eager to share their love for cooking:
- Nutrition & Health Coaches and Nutritional Therapists: Build practical skills to transform nutritional knowledge into engaging cooking demos.
- Chefs & Home Cooks: Master the art of teaching and showcasing recipes.
- Health Store Managers and Staff learn how to host in-store or community-based cooking demonstrations to promote wholesome ingredients and educate others on the benefits of healthy eating.
- Healthcare Professionals & Personal Trainers: Empower clients with cooking skills for healthier living.
- Teachers & Community Workers: Inspire and educate through dynamic, food-focused demonstrations.
- Food Bloggers & Enthusiasts: Elevate your content by adding cooking demonstrations to your repertoire.
No formal nutrition background is required—just a passion for sharing your culinary expertise.
Course Launching: March 13th
Course length and cost:
You will have access to the content for 6 months to learn in your own time.
Cost: €349/£305
Delivery
The ‘Cook. Demo. Teach.’ course material is presented on our online platform, Brightspace.
The content is available 24/7 in bite-size modules, and can be downloaded in comprehensive PDFs for you to keep.
Awards
IINH Certificate of Completion.
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Cost: €349/£305
Discount codes can be added at checkout
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Speak with our admissions team, with no obligation, by clicking the links below.
- Irish Admissions Team
Course Delivery
The ‘Cook. Demo. Teach.’ course material is presented on our online platform, Brightspace.
You will have access to the content for 6 months to learn in your own time.
The content is available 24/7 in bite-size modules, and can be downloaded in comprehensive PDFs for you to keep.
Course Outline
- What is a cooking demonstration?
- Connecting with your audience
- Demonstration levels
- Understanding how people learn
- Adult learners
- Type of demonstration
- Venue options
- Facility and equipment list
- Defining your USP
- The secret of becoming an expert
- Creating the class
- The real costs
- Refining your brand
- Three-month countdown to the demo
- Wrapping up
- Evaluating and improving
- Follow up
- Understanding recipe development
- Finding your inner chef -intuition and cooking
- Recipe testing
- Adapting recipes
- Food sensitives and allergies
- Scaling recipes – up and down
- Principles of recipe writing
- The recipe dissected:
- Title
- Servings
- Recipe introduction
- Ingredient list
- Method
- Tip box and extras
- Plus a few sample recipes.
- Navigating legal and insurance protocols
- Fundamentals of food safety and hygiene
- Food allergens and cross contamination
- Optimising the shopping process
- Safe food storage guidelines
- Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI): Starting a food business.
- Elevate your virtual cooking game with top tips for successful online demonstrations
- Practical advice for choosing the right recipes
- Selecting delivery platforms
- Catering to different age demographics
- Organising mise-en-place
- Facial expressions and what they convey, mastering your voice – and much more
- Includes exclusive video footage, photography and additional resources to enhance the learning experience.
Course Creator
MAGGIE LYNCH
Director of Cooking
Maggie Lynch is Director of Cooking Studies at IINH. She is a qualified chef with over 30 years experience in high-end catering.
Maggie also founded The Soul Food Company, a boutique catering business based in Dublin.
After graduating from IINH in 2005, Maggie blended her twin passions of cooking and nutrition into demonstration classes themed around health issues.
