The Courses - Swinton Park

The Chefs
Stephen Bulmer
Stephen Bulmer joined the Swinton Park Cookery School in January 2013
as Chef Director with over twenty years’ experience at Michelin level
restaurants throughout Europe, having been Chef Director of the Raymond
Blanc Cookery School for ten years and run his own school at Brook Hall in
Buckinghamshire.
Stephen rose to prominence early in his career, reaching the national finals of
the Young Chef of the Year in 1992 and 1993 and the semi-finals of the Roux
Brothers’ Scholarship competition. Since then he has appeared on various TV
programmes including Ready, Steady, Cook and Total Fishing.
He is also is widely
acknowledged to be one the
leading cookery school tutors
in the UK. He combines his
top-level cookery skills with a
gregarious personality, a winning
combination – ‘He is one of my
most experienced chefs and a
great craftsman – his enthusiasm
is completely infectious’,
commented Raymond Blanc.
Cooking has taken Stephen all
over the world, and he has an
extensive portfolio of skills and
styles of cooking. During his
cooking career he has cooked
Italian cuisine at Zafferano,
Knightsbridge; Thai cuisine at
Nahm, London and Japanese
cuisine at Nobu, London.
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