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The Beauty of Bitter | Cookery Masterclass with Alexina Anatole

8 Feb 2026, 10:45am - 2pm

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8 Feb 2026, 10:45am - 2pm

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£100 The Beauty of Bitter Cookery Masterclass with Alexina Anatole

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Join food writer, chef and presenter Alexina Anatole in this cookery masterclass on flavour and understanding how to harness bitterness to make your food delicious and moreish.

In the masterclass you will have the opportunity to work out if you’re a super super taster, take part in some experiments to understand how the five tastes (bitter, sour, salty, sweet, umami) interact with each other and then get into making a range of vegetarian recipes that incorporate bitter flavours such as coffee, grapefruit, bitter leaves and tea. By the end of the class you’ll have a better understanding of your own palate and will have learnt some skills that you can take forwards with you into the kitchen.

Sample recipes
Mushroom, three cheese & coffee quesadillas
Burrata, radicchio & pangratatta
Curried corn fritters with grapefruit dipping sauce
Bitter greens borek
Winter tomato & lapsang souchong salad

Open to all levels of skills and interests. This class is suitable for Adults 18 and over.

*This class is part of our hands-on monthly masterclass cooking sessions, which focus on specialist topics or advanced cooking techniques. Sessions are usually on Sunday and held in the Garden Museum’s new food learning studio. Each class is 3 hours, and will include tastings or a full meal eaten together depending on the course

Workshop Leader

Alexina Anatole

Alexina is a writer, chef, presenter and host based in London. After reaching the final of MasterChef in 2021 she made a brave career change from the trading floor to food. Her debut cookbook, Bitter, was released by Penguin in September 2023 and was one of Waterstone’s top Food and Drink Books of the year. Her second book, Sweet, was released in February 2025. She has received critical acclaim from the likes of Nigella Lawson, Rukmini Iyer and Benjamina Ebuehi.

Alexina writes Small Wins, a Substack newsletter that enhances your cooking and your life in small, manageable ways, and which counts Ben Lippett, Zena Kampaing and India Knight as fans. Alexina is a regular on Saturday Kitchen, and has written for numerous outlets including Waitrose Magazine, Ocado, Delicious and Guardian Feast. She runs sell-out events including Sel, London’s most intimate supper club, and Cocoa POP, a chocolate-themed pop-up with chocolatier Octavia Lamb, as well as private events for corporates, celebrities and HNWIs.

Alexina is of mixed heritage: the granddaughter of chicken farmers from Cambridgeshire and Saint Lucian grandparents who arrived in London during the Windrush movement.

@alexinaanatole