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Started 2 years ago, The Time Travelling Cook brought together people with over 25 years of experience, to bring to life the food and every day life of the ordinary person (and sometimes Kings and Queens!) , with our tag line being -
"Travelling Through History From The Kitchen Table"
Working with museums, historic buildings, and schools, we provide talks, interactive displays and workshops
We have also taken part in large scale events such as Bannockburn Live, Pirates at Culross and The Mary Queen of Scots Festival, to provide working historical kitchens.
We have experience in working in the Film and TV industry giving consultations, advice, preparing historical food for filming and appearing in front of camera to portray authentic cooks and kitchens. We have worked on BBCs "Rise of the Clans" and "Gudrun the Viking Princess", American History programmes and provided advice to various programmes including Norwegian programme " Vikingane"
Don't think it is all about food though. All our talks, displays and workshops incorporate everyday life, medicine, clothes, and weapons of the chosen era.
Most of our work is between the eras of the Vikings through to Jacobites, however we also provide talks and displays on Romans, Victorians and Pirates!
Meet The Team
Denise
Denise
Denise
Head Cook, Photographer and weird recipe finder
Owner and founder of The Time Travelling Cook, Denise has over 10 years experience working in historic food teaching everything from the Picts to WWII and has even been known to dress as an Orc to teach about fantasy food!
Nothing Pleases Denise more than to find a weird and wonderful recipe
Head Cook, Photographer and weird recipe finder
Owner and founder of The Time Travelling Cook, Denise has over 10 years experience working in historic food teaching everything from the Picts to WWII and has even been known to dress as an Orc to teach about fantasy food!
Nothing Pleases Denise more than to find a weird and wonderful recipe from history with her favourite so far being Fish Custard.
Pep
Denise
Denise
Head of Props, Weapons and Obscure Facts
Pep, co-owner of The Time Travelling Cook, has over 25 years working in the History sector.
Peps speciality is maritime history and powder weapons ( think canons and muskets!) but is a wealth of information on all our subjects!
Before working with Time Travelling Cook, you could find Pep beating people up as a combat stuntman for TV and Film.
Kirsty
Denise
Kirsty
Child Wrangling Specialist
Kirsty is currently in University and works for us part time as a workshop helper.
Kirsty has over 5 years experience working with children helping them bring their art and food creations to life and we have debated who has more fun decorating cakes - the children or Kirsty!
Heather
Education Team Member Extraordinaire
Heather is also at University and is part of our Education Team visiting schools.
30 Children on a Monday morning wielding medieval weapons are no match for Heather!
Heather has also appeared in a few BBC History documentaries and has helped out behind the scenes of various TV programmes and Films that Time Travelling Cook have been involved in.