Fiona Hamilton-Fairley is the founder and CEO of The Kids' Cookery School

The Kids' Cookery School

The Kids' Cookery School is a cookery school for children aged 3-16 which has charitable status. Children aged 3-16 years old go to KCS for practical cookery lessons, where they learn to cook healthy food from fresh ingredients....

 in Acton, West London

Acton, London

Acton is a district of west London, England, located in the London Borough of Ealing. It is situated west of Charing Cross.At the time of the 2001 census, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people...

. She founded the cookery school for children in 1995 and continues to teach children and young people there.

Career

Hamilton-Fairley has many years of experience in the food industry. After completing a Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu

Le Cordon Bleu is the world's largest hospitality education institution, with 35 schools on five continents serving 20,000 students annually. Its primary education focus is on hospitality management and the culinary arts...

course she founded and managed her own catering company, Corporate Catering Company, in Berlin and London from 1981-1987. Hamilton-Fairley’s vocation for teaching cookery was sparked in 1987 when she began to teach adult how to cook in a number of adult educational centres in London boroughs. Hamilton-Fairley founded KCS in 1995, when she began to teach children in her own home following the realisation that her own children would not learn to cook at school.

Publications

Hamilton-Fairley has published three cookery books, I Can’t Cook, which was aimed at adults with little knowledge of cookery and I Can’t Cook: Entertaining. Both were published by Bloomsbury Press. Under Hamilton-Fairley’s leadership, KCS self published The Kids' Cook Book in 2005.