Perrys Field to Fork artisan butchery and cookery school
Perrys Field to Fork is an Artisan Butchery and Cookery School delivering the ultimate cooking class. You’ll find us in the historic Grade ll listed market town of Eccleshall, in rural Staffordshire. The Cookery School is based in the grounds of the national award-winning Perrys of Eccleshall, Master Butcher and Game Dealer.
Together with the support of our tutors you will create authentic handmade, delicious high-quality food. Moreover, you will develop the skills to reproduce at home what you learn in your cooking class.
We’re proud to deliver a friendly, relaxed and fun cookery experience. Our courses are a great way to spend quality time with friends, family and colleagues.
You’ll improve your culinary knowledge and skills to create top quality food using the best ingredients… from Field to Fork.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Why choose a Perrys Field to Fork cooking class?
At Perrys Field to Fork there’s lots of different kinds of cooking class to choose from. From smoking and curing meat to mastering the perfect pizza, there’s an experience for everyone.
You can immerse yourself in traditional bread-making and create show-stopping sweet and savoury baked goods.
Most importantly, you’ll take your sense of smell and taste buds on a culinary journey to create and enjoy great food. Browse our full range of evening cookery courses, half day cooking experiences and full day cookery courses.
Perrys Field to Fork cooking class tutors
Our seasoned professionals take pride in delivering great experiences on our cookery courses and butchery courses. Furthermore, our tutors have gained their knowledge in the most prestigious culinary schools and honed their skills in the UKs top eateries.
Our experts will ensure you have the skills and know-how to replicate what you learn on the day and re-use those skills when cooking at home.
BBQ courses at Perrys Field to Fork
If you’d expected a host of BBQ courses located in the grounds of the award-winning Master Butcher Perrys of Eccleshall, you’d be right! We love BBQ and we love, smoking, grilling, firewood and charcoal cooking.
We enjoy slow cooking and fast cooking and we’re passionate about indirect and direct cooking. Most of all we love locally reared produce (within 5 miles) and cooking outdoors!
We use Weber, Kamado Joe and Kadai equipment and we BBQ food to create flavours from every continent.
Whether you enjoy a beer, a wine or something less boozy with your BBQ, you’ll feel right at home.
Our school is designed to be accessible to everyone including bathroom facilities suitable for the less able.
Contact us for more details or to make specific enquiries.
Our convenient location provides the perfect opportunity to extend your stay in our lovely market town.
We’re well served by a range of B&B accommodation from traditional rooms above the inns to boutique guest accommodation, all within walking distance of Perrys Field to Fork cookery school.
Follow the links below to find out more about the local accommodation.
The King’s Arms Bed & Breakfast – 1 Minute Walk
The Little George B&B – 3 minute Walk
Eccleshall B&B – 3 minute Walk
Eagle House Bed & Breakfast – 13 minute Walk
Copper Beach Glamping – 5 minute drive
Perrys Field to Fork Artisan Butchery & Cookery School was borne out of a need to preserve the heritage of traditional farming and food production techniques, in favour of mass food production.
By sharing artisan skills and knowledge and a “hearts and minds approach” to learning, we aim to share our passion for provenance with as many people as possible, while creating amazing food and memorable experiences that will last a lifetime.
At Perrys Field to Fork, Perrys of Eccleshall, Master Butcher Stephen Hill shares his 30-some years’ expertise in butchery from simple sausage-making courses, hand raised pies and scotch egg making courses to learning how to traditionally prepare a side of prime pork or lamb to a forequarter of beef all of which you’ll take home to cook in the comfort of your own home.
Perrys of Eccleshall Master Butcher and Game Dealer has traded in the heart of the historic market town of Eccleshall for almost a century and was crowned Britain’s Best Butcher by the Countryside Alliance in 2018.
The guaranteed provenance and traceability of produce, together with low food miles (stock is reared by our fabulous farmers within just 5 miles) ensures we produce sustainable award-winning quality meat every day.
Our artisan butchery and cookery courses are designed for everyone. We have a wide range of butchery courses and cookery courses to suit all abilities from beginner, to intermediate through to advanced skills.
The courses are designed to be fun and informative, to build knowledge and confidence and a love for quality ingredients that deliver great flavours.
Yes. Every course on our website can be purchased as a gift voucher and sent by email or post to the lucky recipient.
Alternatively, you can buy a butchery course or cookery course gift voucher to a specific amount and the recipient can use it to buy whichever cookery course or butchery course they wish.
Yes, our butchery courses and cookery courses are perfect for corporate team building and customer and staff reward programmes too.
Our team building cookery courses are a great way to remove barriers and help us explore new ideas and build stronger relationships.
Perrys Field to Fork brings people together for a shared educational and fun experience, facilitated by experts, using the highest quality local produce possible, in our professional cookery school.
Yes. We welcome groups for family celebrations, birthday parties and host hen and stag celebrations too.
Our facilities are available for exclusive hire with our signature cookery course packages or a course tailored specifically to your group.
Yes.
We deliver a range of modules for schools and college students and cookery courses to suit different age groups and curriculum models.
We’re based in Eccleshall, in the heart of rural Staffordshire. Our School is easily accessed from Derbyshire, Shropshire and Cheshire and we are only minutes from the M6 (north and south junctions), A51, A50 and the A34. More details can be found here
Eccleshall boasts a superb range of dining and drinking establishments (7 pubs, 6 restaurants and coffee shops, within less than a quarter square mile) and all within walking distance of Perrys Field to Fork.
There’s also a fab selection of independent shops selling everything from gifts, homewares, fashion and arts and crafts. Find out more about Eccleshall here
Perrys Field to Fork was part funded by the "European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development". Funding supported the building of the artisan butchery and cookery school.
