Plant-Based Gourmet Culinary Training.
A well paced, methodic dive into every aspect of healing with living foods, and the nutritional science to back it up.
From fermentation, to salads, creating amazing staples, entrees and desserts. All without using processed, unhealthy addictive ingredients. Includes interactive feedback, exams, live seasonal online sessions and a private community.
"Chef James’ course has totally changed my husband’s and my life for the better! His buckwheat mango granola, sun dried tomato crackers, buckwheat oat chia cereal, his almond cheese that tastes just like cream cheese, his cashew mayonnaise that my husband can make cole slaw with, his walnut brownies, are just a few of the wonderful recipes he provides. The culinary guidance he provides in the course is top notch! How to make sprouts. Making and eating foods that are alive. I have had rheumatoid arthritis 25 years and I feel better now. My inflammation is normal. I’m close to being half way through the course. It was money well spent, an investment in our future. My husband has liked everything I have made in the course. I have so much more confidence now, my knife skills have improved greatly, I use a dehydrator with confidence now. I don’t eat salt or oil, as I’m salt sensitive, re my blood pressure, and chef James has given me options to make recipes without those two ingredients.
It is just so worth it to take Chef James’ courses! Plus he is a wonderful, kind, patient human being. He has made our lives so much better. Thank you Chef James."
-Ellen
This course represents thousands of hours in researching, testing, filming, editing, and developing a new cutting-edge online platform designed to give a personalized experience to each participant. Over 114 detailed, interactive lessons and recipes.
Exclusively designed to take at your own pace (anywhere from 60 days-however long it takes).
Life is about relationships. Your relationship with food is perhaps the most important relationship in your entire life, second only to that with yourself. All healthy relationships in our life benefit from this core understanding. When living at your most optimal, healthy version imaginable, you cannot help but enhance every relationship in this life.
I've been instructing and coaching the power of living foods for over 10 years now and I've witnessed hundreds of incredible transformations along the way. It is amazing work and touches me deeply in witnessing amazing transformations as light bulbs of understanding awaken their relationship with food and open the pathway to optimal health. What I have created in this interactive course synthesizes everything I've experienced in the journey of training and certifying chefs and clients from around the world.
Take Control of Your Personal Health
There is an easier way to embrace the best of the food choices you make every single day and it's far easier than you think. It does take a commitment to waking up to the absolute dangers of all this overly processed commercial food and restructuring your kitchen. You will soon see it as a brilliant culinary studio in which you create beautiful, easy, tasty food that will initiate a journey to the best relationship with your body you may have ever experienced.
It is my mission to show you that learning delicious living foods is not complicated. It is, in fact, very easy to assimilate and by giving yourself 60 days (or longer if you like) we will burn new neuropathways which will reprogram your relationship to food, and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand how and why it works!
The approaches you will learn are affordable and easy to assimilate for everyone (professional chefs looking to expand their repertoire, as well as home cooks seeking to heal through food as medicine).
The course unfolds gently, starting with core concepts in optimizing your daily and morning routines and gradually builds upon this foundation utilizing new conversion techniques for replacing the most common condiments and staples with new living foods recipes.
You will shatter outdated misconceptions as we discover new flavors and textures devoid of the unhealthy processed oils and sugars (and discover healthy alternatives for sodium). All without compromising the flavors that make food enjoyable.
From quick and easy snacks to conversion techniques for any meal, you'll find out just how easy optimal food preparation can be, and why many times less equals more in creating healing foods. We will clear out the dead over processed ingredients and discover the core of exactly what comes into play in creating delicious efficient meals everyone will love.
The science of why and how a living foods diet will transform your life completely will be presented and interwoven as we learn amazing recipes, from simple morning routines to elegant entrees to the most amazing desserts you can imagine.
I will be there every step of the way through the nutrition and science lectures, detailed educational food demonstrations, and on paper with interactive assignments including one on one feedback.
We will have live check-ins via Zoom meetups throughout the course and a private community where we all interact, share ideas, and ask questions to get deeper understandings. Best of all, the community is not on social media platforms. It is a private community embedded exclusively into this academy.
You don't need to have a background in culinary arts to learn the science and techniques that will synch together in the most brilliant ways. Even if you are a chef trained in classic cooking methods, you will experience the most cutting-edge conversion techniques which transform standard culinary techniques into new more brilliant and healthy methods.
This course is designed to meet each student where they are, from the home cook to the culinary professional and each will walk away with a whole new understanding of how to create the most optimal food imaginable.
A chef with previous experience could complete this in 60-90 days, while someone taking it for personal growth can pace it to fit their own lifestyle. Note that to receive a certificate of completion, you must also have the Knife and Equipment Mastery course (see the Culinary Bundle to save on the full-meal deal).
You will experience comprehensive, enlightening nutrition lessons paired with life-changing recipes and plant-based culinary mastery (over 115 lessons!).
Ask yourself, what is the price of investing in my own personal health?
If each of these power-packed, life changing lessons were valued at a bargain price of only $20 each:
This would be collectively valued at a minimum of $2000.00.
One-on-one feedback with a personal culinary instructor for 30 days would be valued at anywhere from $1000.00 up to $5,000.00.
Open invitation to live, interactive, zoom classes involving seasonal favorites, and live feedback? Typically valued at $500/month.
Confidential community student forum.
When I set out upon the journey of creating a new academy 2 years ago, I made a commitment to create something absolutely new in online culinary training. It had to include interaction, both academically and socially, with the chef instructor. I think we have achieved it (and frankly, this level of accomplishment could not have been created even 3 years ago).
We are riding the cutting edge of new technologies in the wake of the pandemic lockdowns and the innovations have exploded into great new tools which bring live, interactive teaching to new heights.
The community group is private and integrated into the course platform (no jumping platform to platform to interact) and the only eyes to ever experience it are the students going through the course -- period. This community will be ongoing for all graduates and will include exclusive early notifications of upcoming workshops and events.
Given all the thousands of hours I put into this, I know it could easily command the same or higher price than we charged at the culinary academy, but one thing holds me back from doing so.
I think this information is so life changing and so necessary for the entire planet, that I have kept the price at a very affordable level and will even offer to split up the payment to help anyone find the path to experience this powerful teaching.
The platform is totally intuitive and will always return to the exact spot where you left off the last time you logged in. If a family event takes you away for a few weeks, no problem! Want to take a break during the holidays? No problem!
You most certainly do not have to wait for a perfect window in your schedule to take this amazing course. It is a journey of transformation and has been designed to accommodate your needs.
Everyone that enrolls is welcome to take part in the seasonal live sessions, even upon completion!
This module brings many of the components and techniques together in creating delicious, easy meals for your everyday lifestyle. From spectacular wraps and amazing sandwiches to burgers, soups and pastas, we continue the journey of mastering the most innovative conversion techniques. Understand all of these and you are on the way to becoming a living foods plant-based chef!
Who said you couldn't enjoy some great desserts and stay healthy? Certainly not me, and I will show you how to do it in living foods techniques that retain all the fantastic vitamins, phytonutrients and enzymes while stepping away from processed sugars! New techniques in achieving sweetness through whole foods is the key and I will show you how to master them.
The program is designed to meet the student where they are at. All the basic necessary skills are covered in the comprehensive Knife and Equipment Mastery for the Plant-based Kitchen, then put into practice in the Living Foods Mastery course. Both are necessary for a certificate of completion (it is recommended to sign up for the Culinary Bundle in order to get a discounted price).
A high school diploma or equivalent is highly recommended, but not mandatory.
The Plant-based Kitchen and Lifestyle Transformation is suggested for creating the kitchen studio needed for this program. It is completely optional but recommended.
The first step is the Knife & Equipment Mastery for the Plant-based Kitchen. This course covers the techniques we will be using throughout the Living Foods culinary series. Those seeking a certificate must include this course in their journey. If you have previously taken culinary level knife skills, contact Chef James to evaluate your path. There will be bundled prices for those on the path to a certificate.
Yes. There is a discounted bundle package for those seeking certification:
Living Food Mastery
Knife and Equipment Mastery for the Plant-based Kitchen
Transform Your Kitchen, Transform Your Life
As a bonus, you will also receive Vibrant Vegan for Every Season
The courses are designed to be self-paced. Each is designed with a certain timeframe in the release of modules, but you can take each module at your own pace for up-to 1 year. For example, the 30 day Living Foods course can be stretched anywhere from 60 days to whatever fits your schedule..
Each is designed to be intuitive and easy to navigate. You can pause at anytime, and upon logging back in the site will return you to where you left off.