Fiona Hamilton-Fairley

Fiona Hamilton-Fairley is the founder and CEO of The Kids' Cookery School in Acton, West London. She founded the cookery school for children in 1995 and continues to teach chidren and young people there.

Career

Fiona has many years of experience in the food industry. After completing a Cordon Bleu course she founded and managed her own catering company, Corporate Catering Company, in Berlin and London from 1981-1987. Fiona’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. Fiona 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

Fiona 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 Fiona’s leadership, KCS self published “The Kids’ Cook Book” in 2005.

Personal life

Fiona lives in London and has three children.