Residential Training Programme on What's Cooking

The food we eat is directly linked to our environment and biodiversity. For generations, our ancestors have used local and seasonal ingredients to prepare wholesome recipes. But this knowledge -- about how India’s biodiversity can be used sustainably on our plates -- has slowly disappeared.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of South Asia’s leading think tanks, invites applications for its two-day specially designed course for young chefs who are not afraid to be inventive and innovative in their creations and recipes. Who believe that each one of us can contribute in our own unique ways to conserve and help regenerate our biodiversity. And who are passionately in love with food and cooking and hungry to learn more…

Essentially, the course will provide an in-depth understanding of our biodiversity-rich world and how to use local biodiversity and forgotten ingredients in our recipes and our cooking. Through interactive lectures from some of the best known names in the industry; classroom discussions, group activities and fireside chats; and THE NOURISHER recipe-and-cooking contest.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

• The linkages between food, biodiversity and nature
• History, tradition and culture of food in India
• Creating unique recipes using locally available biodiversity
• How to source biodiverse ingredients

WHAT ARE YOUR TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS COURSE?

• A unique perspective on using local biodiversity in your cooking
• A career-moulding opportunity to share the table with your peers and stalwarts in the profession
• A Certificate of Participation from CSE
• An opportunity to be a part of a growing community of food-and culinary craftspeople who believe that our biodiversity can be a mouth-watering and sustainable ingredient in what we eat

 AAETI – Anil Agarwal Environment Training Institute – is CSE’s fully residential training facility located at the foothills of the famed Aravalli mountains in Nimli in Tijara, near Alwar in Rajasthan: it is less than three hours away from Delhi by road. AAETI is designed as a campus that exemplifies the principles and practices of sustainable living – from water conservation and harvesting and waste management to energy-efficient lifestyle and thermally comfortable building designs. Course participants will be housed in comfortable double-sharing accommodations, and will be served meals cooked fresh in the campus canteen.

NOTE: Application/registration is not a guarantee of acceptance of admission in the course. We have limited seats, hence interested candidates are advised to apply well in time. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their statement of purpose, and subject to complete filling of the application form. Only the shortlisted candidates will be intimated about their selection and asked to pay the course fee.

To know more, you can write to the

COURSE COORDINATOR

DR VIBHA VARSHNEY
Consultant, Biodiversity and Food, CSE
E-mail: vibha@cseindia.org