Cooking up a profitable business

Tim and Vanessa Greenwood set up the Cook's Academy as a Dublin alternative to the Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork run by Darina Allen.

���There's no well-known cookery school in Dublin,” said Tim. “If you wanted to go to one, you had to go somewhere rural or residential. We wanted to offer something that was easy for commuters to get to.”

Based in Dun Laoghaire, the academy offers courses to cooks of all ...