Stirring Stuff was set in Autumn 2005 to provide imaginative contemporary cookery courses and demonstrations taught by enthusiastic and committed professionals . Whatever your ability ( perceived or otherwise ) we aim to build confidence and inspire creativity. Belinda Hill taught professional cookery for a number of years and set up Henley’s cookery school in stylish , purpose built kitchens in an attractive C17th farm building around which she has planted a charming fragrant herb garden (all 1.5 miles from the centre of Henley on Thames).