Inside the Plant-Forward Kitchen is a new video education series from The Culinary Institute of America and Unilever Food Solutions, a first-of-its-kind video reference library documenting the best of plant-forward cuisine.
Plant-forward eating is one of the most significant culinary mega-trends underway in America and in global foodservice. It’s changing how chefs think about menus, flavor development, creativity, and their customers. Chefs around the world are in a unique and pivotal position to help lead the transformation to sustainable, healthy and delicious plant-based dining. Through video recipe demonstrations, market tours, and interviews, Inside the Plant-Forward Kitchen offers inspiration, advice, and insights from chefs who are on the leading edge of this movement.
At the end of each documentary, chefs from Unilever Food Solutions show us how to make recipes inspired by the dishes featured in each series. These videos include practical plant-based flavor building strategies, and step-by-step recipe demonstrations that you can adapt for your own menu.
These videos were made thanks to the generous support and sponsorship of Unilever Food Solutions.
Inside the Plant-Forward Kitchen: New York and the Northeast
In this volume, we visit the restaurants and kitchens of the northeast, including New York, Brooklyn, and Massachusetts. We talk to Chef Amanda Cohen, a pioneer in the plant-forward movement at her restaurant Dirt Candy. We meet Chef Daniel Humm, who discusses how he transformed his world-famous restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, into a fully vegan establishment. We’ll experience the Middle Eastern creations of Shukette, traditional Iranian and Persian food at Sofreh, organic Queens diner fare at Golden Diner, and Southern Soul Food cooking at Cadence. We visit two Mexican restaurants, Cosme and Oxomoco, where the chefs combine Mexican gastronomy with locally grown New York produce. Finally, we leave New York to see how plant-forward principles can be scaled at high volume foodservice, when we head to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with Chef Alexander Ong.
Inside the Plant-Forward Kitchen: California
In this volume, we explore the markets and farms, kitchens and restaurants of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. We begin in Los Angeles, and talk to Wolfgang Puck, who was at the vanguard of bringing plant-forward cuisine to American foodservice in the 1980s. Chef Suzanne Goin of A.O.C., talks about embracing rustic farm-to-table cuisine. Also in southern California, we visit the kitchens of Kismet, Cafe Gratitude, and Malibu Farm Restaurant. Heading north to California’s Bay Area, we meet with three-Michelin-star Chef Kyle Connaughton of SingleThread Farm in Healdsburg, and Chef Heena Patel of Besharam in San Francisco.
Watch Plant-Forward Recipe Demonstrations by our Sponsor, Unilever Food Solutions
