Core Essentials – Certificate

The Natural Cook Essentials Certificate provides the foundation for cooking without recipes using the structure of the Language of Intuitive Cooking.This class will meet for 12 weeks for 2.5 hours starting with their teacher and other students in their group. Included is access to the Natural Cook Core Essentials classroom. The classroom contains reference materials including demonstration videos, e-books, workbook. cooking exercises, question forum and optional weekly Tuesday Talks.Please allocate 15 hours each week to study the material, complete the cooking exercises and meet with you group in your weekly class meetings for the12 week period.

The Core Essentials has everything one needs to build mastery with plant-based cooking skills.  The course material focuses on the transformation whole, original seeds.  Processing food is what we do as cooks.  Learning to start with whole ingredients helps master a budget, a kitchen’s flow, and the environment of bodily health. When a need or choice comes to refine a whole ingredient, you will have knowledge on how to bring the freshest, most energetic value into your cooking.

Cooking is simple. Understanding the infinite possibilities is complex.  The Natural Cook training begins simply, with a map on how to manage infinite possibilities.   An artist masters ingredients and techniques; then applies their soul to their creations.  This is what The Core Essentials offers you. 

– Gain a deep understanding of ingredients and cooking methods for plant-based dishes
– Learn to create a dish with ingredients at hand and how to how to troubleshoot problems
– Study the art and technique of whole dish grain: non-gluten grains as main dishes
– Visual rhythm: the art of cutting vegetables with Japanese vegetable knife
– Principles of designing dishes and balanced meal composition
– Study 28 cooking methods that are specific to plant-based cookery
– Study the art and technique for vegetable proteins: beans
– Learn the subtle and distinctive art of plant-based soups and sauces
– Observe and integrate principles of energetic nutrition and using whole food for health