he New Living Foods Professional Kitchen Created By Matthew Kenney. This chef is pleased to announce the opening of the newest location of its esteemed Culinary Academy, in partnership with the Evason Resort, in Hua Hin Thailand. Located within the resorts 20 acres of tropical gardens, the new living foods professional kitchen is the first classically structured plant-based culinary academy in Asia.
He states: our academy meets the growing demand for culinary tourism by offering an unmatched experience in one of the worlds most beautiful destinations says Founder Matthew Kenney. The Evason resort offers the quintessential stage for plant-based culinary instruction, with access to Thailands incredible local ingredients, flavors and customs.
Recognized by Food & Wine Magazine as one of the worlds best cooking classes, Matthew Kenney Culinary is centered on the use of whole, organic plant-based foods to achieve healthy, aesthetically refined and flavorful cuisine. Curriculum focuses on the Fundamentals of Raw Cuisine to offer students comprehensive training in the principles behind the art of raw food, as well as cooked plant-based cuisine classes that further the modern, creative approach to preparing nutritious foods. Programs are structured to provide students with heightened skills and technique enabling them to execute plant-based cuisine at the highest level. Matthew Kenney Culinary Thailand offers month long courses, shorter workshops will be introduced later this year. As part of an exclusive enrollment package, students will be provided with accommodations at the resort.
Matthew Kenney Culinary Thailand joins already operating online, Venice CA, and Belfast, ME locations. More information on Matthew Kenney Culinary can be found online: www.matthewkenneycuisine.com/education/overview/
About Matthew Kenney
Matthew Kenney is the worlds leading raw food chef, the writer of several best-selling cookbooks, a culinary educator, speaker, and an entrepreneur specializing in the plant-based lifestyle. He has authored 12 cookbooks, including his memoir Cooked Raw: How One Celebrity Chef Risked Everything to Change the Way We Eat, released in January, 2015. Kenney has been honored with a James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef nomination and was named Food and Wine Magazine’s 1994 Best New Chef.
In 2012 Matthew Kenny founded the integrated California-based lifestyle brand, Matthew Kenney Cuisine to provide innovative, high-quality products and services in the culinary arts, health and wellness industries. Matthew Kenney Cuisine owns and operates multiple plant-based restaurants in the US including: Plant Food and Wine (Venice, CA) The Gothic (Belfast, ME) MAKE OUT (Culver City, CA) and forthcoming White Lotus (Miami, FL). Aligned with a world rapidly embracing the need for a healthier diet and an increase in plant-based food consumption, Matthew Kenney Cuisine is crafting the future of food®.
Kenneys success lies within his innate understanding of seasonal and local ingredients, his classical training and extensive travel background. His application of contemporary methods and techniques along with a firm commitment to innovative recipes and food aesthetics is leading the raw food industry to the mainstream. Kenney is involved in raw food and plant-based projects around the world, and travels extensively to forward his mission to show others that food can be delicious and vibrant, while still healthful. More information can be found online: matthewkenneycuisine.com
