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PICTURES: Cooking sustainably during Green Week at UHI Inverness


By Val Sweeney

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Lewis Stephens, Nikki Ilas, Hanna Thomson and Elizabeth Keddie put together a meal during a sustainable cookery class to mark Green Week at UHI Inverness. Picture: James Mackenzie.
Lewis Stephens, Nikki Ilas, Hanna Thomson and Elizabeth Keddie put together a meal during a sustainable cookery class to mark Green Week at UHI Inverness. Picture: James Mackenzie.

Casserole and toad-in-the-hole were on the menu at a sustainable cookery class to mark Green Week at UHI Inverness.

Events included a food waste workshop held by foundation apprenticeship business skills students as part of sustainable development project work.

Lecturer Saurav Kumar leads the class.
Lecturer Saurav Kumar leads the class.

They also teamed up with professional cookery lecturer Saurav Kumar to encourage sustainable cookery practices with the students cooking a casserole and turning the leftovers into a toad-in-the-hole.

Assessor/trainer in business, Angela Spence, joins students to sample some of the food.
Assessor/trainer in business, Angela Spence, joins students to sample some of the food.

“It was a fantastic event and went very well,” he said. “The students were really good and very much switched on to the sustainability side of things.

“I was very pleased to be a part of it.”

Students discuss sustainable cookery practices.
Students discuss sustainable cookery practices.

Green Week,organised by the UHI partnership and Highlands and Islands Students’ Association, also included a public screening of the feature-length documentary, Riverwoods, narrated by Peter Capaldi.

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The film event was hosted by Level 5 Applied Science students and included talks by guest speakers about positive environmental projects, career routes and the local opportunities.


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