Article: Biggest cook school in the country on menu for city

SCOTLAND'S biggest food and wine school is to open in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town - bankrolled by one of the nation's richest men.

The head of the Salvesen business dynasty, whose roots in the capital date back to 1872, is behind the multi-million-pound venture, which is expected to open before Christmas.

Food industry tycoon Alastair Salvesen has joined Fiona Burrell, a veteran food writer, to transform a former Queen Street townhouse in a project believed to be worth at least GBP 2 million.

The five-storey cookery school is being created in former insurance firm offices, just yards away from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Jam House ...

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