‘Denise’s Kitchen’ is brought to you by Denise Phillips, the UK’s leading Jewish chef and cookery writer. Denise offers a wide range of cookery classes and an array of mouth-watering modern stylish recipes through this website, her famous classes, her books and in the media.

This website is dedicated to enjoying modern Jewish cookery with style and is full of Denise’s new and classic kosher recipes, ‘hands-on’ cooking class information and upcoming culinary events. It is the perfect destination for those who love to indulge in food that happens to be kosher.

And don’t let Covid 19 hold you back. Denise has successfully combined her regular face to face live cookery events, with weekly cookery demonstrations on Facebook (free) as well as cookery classes on Zoom (just £25) and also her Date On A Plate format for Jewish singles is now available on Zoom every Sunday.

Who is Denise?

Denise has over 25 years experience having initially trained with renowned restaurateur Prue Leith before setting up her own successful catering business. Her quest has always been to create Jewish cooking with style, taste and a rich visual look.

Denise has showcased her modern approach to kosher cookery on a range of radio and TV shows including appearances on BBC1, ITV  and DKW Channel.  She also writes a weekly food column in the Jewish Weekly and is a regular contributor for the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jewish Recorder and Jewish Vegetarian Society magazine.

To help share her cookery ideas Denise provides cookery demonstrations all over the country including Date on a Plate and Cooking with Steam. She also hosts corporate client events and frequently runs cookery demonstrations for charities such as Chai Cancer Care, Jewish Blind & Disabled, WIZO and Jewish Care. The aim is to share her passion for modern Jewish cookery whilst raising money for good causes.

Denise has published several books of her recipes and cooking tips. Her acclaimed cookery books include:

• The Gourmet Jewish Cookbook (UK and USA editions)

• Flavours of the Jewish Table

• New Flavours of the Jewish Table published by Ebury Press

• Celebrate Every Day with Denise Phillips

Denise says…

I love to share my latest discoveries of new ingredients

I enjoy experimenting with new recipes and sharing them in my cookery columns

Allergies and special food requests are no issue. I have endless variations of suggestions to suit specialist diets

Learn to master knife skills, pipe meringues and plait bread in my cookery classes

Leftover ingredients can make some great dishes. Find some in my recipes section

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Stuck for cooking ideas? Take a look at Denise’s latest recipes from starters and soups, to mains and desserts.
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