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This fully comprehensive course is designed for established chefs, retreat chefs, both professional and passionate home cooks with a strong understanding of food. It’s aimed at those who want to master the art of creating exquisite plant-based dishes for professional and high standard retreat and remote kitchens. 

You’ll leave with developed menu plans covering at least two weeks of diverse savory dishes, along with the skills and confidence to run a European retreat kitchen independently—working with fresh ingredients, live food and creating food from scratch with ease.

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In the course you will be given the framework to meet all the needs of a retreat kitchen and cook explosive food; learning the guests patterns and tastes, and designing menus that flow with each week’s journey. You will master flavor switching to delight diverse palates and effortlessly adapt dishes to dietary needs. Craft classic naturally plant-based dishes as well as more unique flavour bombs. Hands-on, practical, and packed with ideas and skills so that you leave with the confidence to head chef retreat kitchens. 

Course Schedule: 2nd–9th April 2025

A 1-week training experience at Yoga Rocks on the rural coast of Crete, Greece, with accommodation, all meals, and materials included. 

€1690

Payment plans available

How to book:

cheftrainingcrete@gmail.com

Facilitated by:

BB’s Kitchen and Yoga Rocks

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Testimonials:

‘Let’s do a Yoga Rocks cookbook together’  PAUL RANKIN, MICHELIN STARRED UK T.V CHEF

“I’d go on your cooking course”  SEVERAL YOGA ROCKS CHEFS ON TRAINING IN DAYS AT THE RETREAT

“Every time I eat Bryony’s food, it’s like a different party in my mouth” MAYLIS SITA PARISOT – CHEF AND OWNER OF AWARD WINNING VEGAN RESTAURANT SAVVY, PARIS

‘This is better than antikristo! (A traditional way meat is grilled on Crete for special occasions.) If I ate this all the time I’d be bigger than I am now’ YANNI MILIDAKIS, Meat loving Cretan chef. Experience at Myknos Number 5 hotel restaurant and 5 star hotels round Greece, Aquablu (Kos), Grecotel Creta Palace (Crete) and Aquagrand (Rhodes).