Daryln Brewer Hoffstot, Post Gazette, USA, 16 July 2000

Seven of us, amateur but enthusiastic cooks from Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Sates attended the five-day course... We were met at the front door by Shrager and the charming Bridget Miller Mundy, who oversees the course. They welcomed us like returning family... Six to seven hours a day of cooking was a lot, but Shrager believed cooking should be fun and made it so.

Her enthusiasm pervaded the kitchen. At some point during every lesson, she'd take our pulse: Did you enjoy that? Wasn't that wonderful? We did and it was... Shrager's course is old-fashioned cooking at its best with no regard to calorie counting...

Jonathan Bulmer coordinates each meal with numerous fine wines and students have the unusual opportunity of living in one of Scotland's great houses as guests of the owner. Indeed, Bulmer treated us like old friends, eating meals with us, popping champagne at the least excuse, and participating in rousing games of postprandial Ping-Pong...

When we had a chance to retire to our rooms we were in luxurious surroundings. Many of the eight bedrooms, all elegantly decorated, had a view of the sea and each had its own bath. The service was better than the best hotel...

In addition to the cookery classes, Bulmer opens his home several times a year for painting courses, chamber music weeks and fishing and deer stalking holidays. Perhaps I'm a better watercolorist than a cook; at least I have a reason to go back.