Fifteen London's head baker joins forces with Real Bread Campaign

1st February 2010, 12:29pm

Fifteen London's head baker Kenny Rankin has teamed up with the Real Bread Campaign to highlight the importance of bakery apprenticeships this week (1-5 February).

Chris Young, project officer for the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food programme-supported Real Bread Campaign, will be learning about the art of baking high quality bread, learning the same knowledge and developing the same skills as the Fifteen trainees during National Apprenticeship Week.

As part of Fifteen's 12 month chef apprenticeship scheme, each apprentice learns basic breadmaking as part of the NVQ 2 qualifications they take at Lewisham College. 

This knowledge is enhanced in the Fifteen kitchens when apprentices can opt to spend three weeks building their experience and knowledge with Rankin. The group of apprentices start working with Rankin on February 8th.

Rankin said: "Fifteen is great because everything is cooked with integrity – you can always trace where the ingredients are from and that's important to me. Also there's so much you can do with the apprentices. You can teach them the basics but there's also the Swiss and French style bakery that's invaluable learning. Baking is such a dying art and is one of the oldest and most important skills we can teach the apprentices."

Related Articles:

• 16 Jan 2012 - Teachers and cooks invited to attend Real Bread workshop
• 27 Sep 2010 - Flagship Fifteen restaurant gets a light makeover
• 28 Jun 2010 - FIFTEEN CORNWALL RESTAURANT HAS A NEW HEAD CHEF
• 28 Aug 2009 - Real Bread Campaign launches new scheme for bakers

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