Classes in Raw Vegan Cuisine
for Individuals, Chefs & Instructors

Essentials of Raw Culinary Arts

This is a five-day hands-on course and is a requirement for Living Light Culinary Arts Associate Chef Training for anyone who is new to raw cuisine and/or weak in overall chef skills.

 

Class Schedule and Tuition

Please refer to our schedule of raw foods classes and workshops.

 

Class Location

Living Light Center, Fort Bragg, CA.

 

Length of Class

5 days

 

Pre-Requisites

FUNdamentals of Raw Living Foods is a prerequisite to this entry-level chef course and may be attended either separately or concurrently with it.

 

What You Will Learn

  • Essential techniques for healthy meal preparation
  • Setting-up and managing your raw food kitchen
  • Using basic equipment common in a raw food kitchen (food processors, juicers, and dehydrators, including proper temperature settings for different applications)
  • Basic knife technique -- which knives are used for which tasks (i.e. chopping, dicing, mincing, julienning, chiffonade)
  • Basic measures and equivalents (i.e. teaspoons to tablespoons, ounces to cups, quarts to gallons, etc.)
  • How to follow recipes and convert cooked recipes to raw recipes
  • Hands-on experience in making fruit smoothies and fresh garden soups, sauces, salad dressings, salads, simple entrees, wraps and rolls, patés, crackers, and desserts
  • Understanding flavor dynamics
  • Effective menu planning
  • Basic raw nutritional science, food combining, and healthy living principles

 

Additional Information

This class is hands on.