The Natural Chef
The Natural Chef – Diploma
The curriculum in this training supports the skills and thinking for anyone wanting to work in the food industry. Knowing how to troubleshoot, invent, and create a personal style with the simplest, cleanest, ingredients in the most efficient, cost productive way is useful for everyone who works with food.
This program prepares graduates to have a thorough experience of plant-based ingredients, beyond the usual dishes that are popular. They will have tools to up-grade well-known dishes and translating traditional recipes.
The Food Photography lesson prepares students to use quality images from their assignments for social media and their professional portfolios.
In addition, the training prepares a chef to know how healing food feels in their body and the rhythm of a professional kitchen. Over 9 months many graduates report health changes and more control over their lifestyle.
Lab Sessions & Weekly Meetings
Woven throughout the training 36 hours of scheduled, live, virtual labs clarify and challenge student’s techniques and understanding of the creative process.
These lab sessions are well designed to experience learning from your kitchen.
How to Enroll
Complete the application and enrollment agreement
before the due date
Although this training is online with a beginning and end date, it is important to be prepared having organized your life to meet the schedule, before the starting date. We collect applications and design the schedule that fits each participant.

Step One – Study the catalog
Step Two – Fill out and submit the online application
Step Three – Schedule and Interview
Step Four – Complete the enrollment agreement
There are 30 weekly lessons. This training begins by building a foundation of understanding.
Students learn to observe their dishes in their process of learning The Language of Intuitive Cooking.
Alumni Forum
Stay connected with successful graduates who speak the same cooking language
Access The School of Natural Cookery’s job board
Look for people to work with that have a similar training


Graduates demonstrate a level mastery and proficiency in plant based cooking
This program supports goals for the following work situations:
• Product development
• Food blogs and book writing
• Educator
• Professional continuing education
• Food service – trucks, restaurants, cafes
• Menu design
• More….
Full commitment from instructor/mentors throughout your training who will guide and grade your achievements. Our classes are small, and our standards for graduation are high.
SNC is one of the few state approved 100% online private occupational culinary schools in the United States.
When approved as a state department of higher education school, we are required to maintain standards of business, both fiscally and quality of professional instructors. We are required to have insurance for the location where we do hands-on training and to be able to reimburse students for any un-earned tuition due to business failure to deliver.
