Grande Diploma in Culinary Studies & Wine

With 16 years experience in culinary training, Prue Leith Chefs Academy offers this full time intensive course to prepare you for a career as a professional chef.

City & Guilds examinations are written alongside our internal examinations so that the student can achieve national framework qualifications which allow for easier travel work experiences.

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Italian Cuisine and Culture

The Prue Leith Chefs Academy is very proud to offer a joint-program in partnership with Italy’s premiere Culinary Academy, ALMA – La Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana, in Colorno (Parma - Italy).

ALMA has indentified Prue Leith Chefs Academy as the benchmark Academy in Southern Africa, and has opened its doors to South African Culinary students now for the first time.

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Find us on Facebook!

The Prue Leith Chefs Academy now officially has a home on Facebook!

Visit our group and stay up to date with all the latest events & happenings at Prue Leith Chefs Academy. Like our page, and you just might be in for treat at the Prue Leith Restaurant.

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Our Patron

Prue Leith is largely known in South Africa as the founder patron of the Prue Leith Chefs Academy, the daughter of the once famous actress Margaret Inglis, or the Johannesburg girl made good who made her name in London as a restauraneur, television cook and writer.

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Diploma in Patisserie

This course will prepare you for an entry level position into a career as a Pastry Chef. The course offers classical French training and modern techniques.

The course is long enough to have confident skills and short enough for the student to move into employment directly thereafter.

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Chefs Academy

Regularly rated as the finest chefs training institution in South Africa by top chefs and industry professionals, the Prue Leith Chefs Academy continues to go from strength to strength.

Passion, excellence, creativity, expertise, leading edge and tradition make for an exceptional combination and are some of the core values the Prue Leith Chefs Academy believes in.

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Tried & Tested Recipes

There are not many cookbooks whose recipes have been tested over and over again by 100 students and 15 teachers. However, Leith's Cookery Bible has evoled over the last 30 years and can probably claim to include the most tried, tested and true set of instructions ever offered to the keen cook, greedy gourmet o or addicted recipe reader.

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