Sushi Making Class with Chef Arti

Hi, my name is Chef Arti. I won the Yan-Kit So Award for Food Writers on Asia in November 2025. I am also a finalist for a South Asian Food Award by Be Inclusive Hospitality, 2024. In February 2026, I was nominated for the Women in Food and Drink Awards. I currently work three days a week as the cook school teaching chef at Borough Kitchen. I have worked full-time at the School of Wok, one of Europe's only award-winning Asian and Oriental cookery schools. I have also assisted in teaching apprentice chefs at the Wagamama chain of restaurants along with a company called Lifetime Training (the UK's leading apprenticeship training provider) for two years. Before that, I taught Parent and Children's Cookery Classes in West London for a company called 'Chefs in the Mix.' I am also a graduate of the Leiths School of Food and Wine, and I have a 'Level 3 Food Hygiene and Safety in Catering certificate, ' a 'Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety in Catering certificate, ' as well as a 'Food Allergen Awareness Certificate.'I have also worked at The Ivy restaurant. I have worked for Gully Indian Street Food, which is an award-winning producer of Indian food. And I have also taught Indian, Thai, Indo-Chinese, Indian street food, Chinese food, and Parent and Child Cookery Classes at the Lyric Hammersmith.I have also taught cookery at the Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Education College. Furthermore, I currently teach year 8, 9, and 10 students at the Channing School for Girls in London, and I also teach their sixth form students recipes that will help them when they move on to university. I have an enhanced DBS certificate and an 'Introduction to Safeguarding' certificate. I have also taught at Saint Aloysius College and Brampton Manor Academy.The types of food I love to teach are Indian, Sindhi, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indonesian, Singaporean, Malaysian, Korean, and Taiwanese food. I also teach healthy meal prep. I can also teach you knife skills. I can impart a knowledge of Indian spices and Chinese and Thai ingredients. I also cook meals for the health-conscious. I am particularly good at teaching secondary school teenagers how to cook independently so they can be ready for university.I look forward to inspiring you to cook and be creative with food.