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Nature’s Chef Academy – Online
Welcome to my weekly Zoom workshops! Every Friday 6-7pm and Sunday 12-1pm I’m here to support you in the kitchen or out in nature, enriching your diet with nature. Wild-foods brings great resilience, supporting our immune system and overall health. I’m here to help unlock your inner natures chef, sharing my wild culinary gift, helping you feel empowered and loving your time crafting your meals.I have a wide diverse of culinary skills to offer with over 25 years of professional cooking experience, and a life of growing up in the forest!
Each workshop will focus on something new. The advantage with online I can shoot whatever I am crafting, in my own time then to be sharing with you so you can ask all the questions. We’ll be using Zoom platform so it’s quite user friendly, you’ll be able to ask all the questions and you will receive a copy of our Zoom meeting. I aim to be offering intimate support.
What to Expect;
- Recipes
- Foraging wild-foods
- Processing tips
- Preserving methods
- Food Chi fermenting
- Fermented beverages
- Sourdough baking
- Wild-craft cooking
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Sunday February 7, 2021 12-1pm PST
Episode #002 – Sharpening your Knife Skills
Learn how to take care of your knifes, general care and use. Knowing how to use your knife will save you time and keep the stress levels down. Get comfortable in the kitchen, make the knife an extension of your hand.
In this workshop we will cover;
- Choosing your cutting boards and how to take care of it
- Choosing a knife that is right for you and the job
- Choosing a sharpening tool
- How to use a sharpening stone
- How to use a honing steel
- How to hold and use a knife
- What not to do to your knifes
- Cutting techniques
To register click on ticket link to proceed through Eventbrite. An exchange of $10 +gst gives you access to this valuable experience. Please feel free to send me any question you have about the event, or if you have any requests for future episodes.
About your host;
Nature’s Chef, Tom Kral
Over 25 years of professional cooking experience and a bloodline of cooks has evolved Tom Kral into Nature’s Chef. From a child growing up in a European deli and spending time at the family cottage, camping and foraging played a important role of his life that developed a deep connection with nature. Following his passion for cooking it led him down a path of being trained by some of the worlds best chefs, then to owner of a renowned restaurant and catering business in Toronto, ON. After a chef burn out and a awakening he finally came to settle in supernatural BC because of the irresistible call for the wild. His passion for putting medicine back into our food quickly grew into a whole new genre of dining experience, which he delivers to others through edutainment.
https://natureschef.ca