WHO ARE WE?

Cottage Cooks is run by 35 year old Mum of two, Dani Khastgir - that's me! I started Cottage Cooks in 2004 when I couldn't find a cooking course for my then 10 year old daughter, Chloe. We wanted something that was easy to get to and affordable, not the easiest of things living in the heart of Devon. Since then, we've expanded massively and are now based on the beautiful Gower, in Wales.

I've always been a keen cook and one of my earliest memories is of sitting at my Nan's kitchen table, picking the stalks out of blackcurrants. If I could spend all day cooking, I'd be extremely happy. So when my husband suggested that I set up a course of my own, I decided to! Since then, the cooking courses have expanded and as you'll see from this site, I now provide lots of other things to make cooking fun.

I feel passionately about getting children cooking from an early age - the more they cook and experiment with different foods, the less faddy kids are. It's amazing what they'll eat if they cooked it themselves. As a trained nurse, I really do appreciate the problems that kids can have if they have a poor diet - the media has highlighted the rise in childhood obesity and diabetes. But I also know that children want to eat cookies and cakes as well as the healthy stuff - it's all a matter of balance though.

The other Cottage Cooks team members are my husband Jay, daughters Chloe and Annabel and dogs Angus the Westie and Molly the Scottie.

WHAT ELSE DO WE CARE ABOUT?

As well as cooking, the Cottage Cooks team cares about the environment so we always try to reuse our packaging whenever we can. So if you receive your order in a secondhandbox, rest assured that your goods will all be first hand!! And if you can make use of our box again, even better!