Welsh Cookery School

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Keep on Stirring. 

TV chef and author Margaret Rees of the Welsh Cookery School presents Judith McSwiney and each of the volunteers staffing the Myddfai Visitors’ Centre with a special spoon. The award marked their “graduation” after the completion of the Celebrating Culture Project. It involved a bilingual Heritage Cookery course and the creation of a new menu for the Myddfai Café, near Llandovery, and was designed to share traditional cooking skills, including ingredients that would have been used by the Physicians of Myddfai. It was supported by Menter Bro Dinefwr at the Myddfai Visitors’ Centre, near Llandovery. 

The project has provided access to Welsh cultural events to people of all ages in rural areas in Carmarthenshire. The course has been accompanied by a book written by Margaret Rees, Celebrating Culture in Myddfai, A Traveller’s Cook Book, available from the Myddfai Visitors’ Centre at £6.50. 

The course will be repeated as a series of day courses, starting on March 8th at the Myddfai Centre. It is becoming an important food destination for tourists visiting Llyn y fan in the Brecon Beacon National Park in Carmarthenshire. The other ‘graduates’ in the picture are Anne Williams, Monica Barlow, Sue Davies, Helen Salt, and Margaret Price.

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Cooking and Culture. 

Sharing some of the secrets of the Physicians of Myddfai with broadcaster and Carmarthenshire High Sheriff in Nomination, Elinor Jones, (right) is Margaret Rees of the Welsh Cookery School.Her book, Celebrating Culture in Myddfai, A Traveller’s Cook Book, was launched at the Myddfai Visitors’ Centre, near Llandovery. The book is based on the ancient food, herbal and cultural heritage of the village and accompanied a Celebrating Culture Project, involving a bilingual Heritage Cookery course and the creation of a new menu for the Myddfai Café. 

The project was supported by Menter Bro Dinefwr and has provided access to Welsh cultural events to people of all ages in rural areas in Carmarthenshire. Myddfai nestles in the Carmarthenshire Vans and is now the Welsh home of HRH the Prince of Wales. He opened the Myddfai Centre in 2011.Celebrating Culture in Myddfai, A Traveller’s Cook Book,is available from the Myddfai Visitors’ Centre at £6.50. 

The course will be repeated as a series of day courses, starting on March 15th at the Myddfai Visitors’ Centre. It is becoming an important food destination for tourists visiting Llyn y fan in the Brecon Beacon National Park in Carmarthenshire.Also in the picture, seated is Dilwen Davies of Llandybie.