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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

How do I transition to plant based and make the food taste good?

— Lavoyn Anger

Answer:

I think that that's part of, um, you know, just really getting used to the plant-based diet and, uh, exploring in the kitchen a little bit. Uh, you're able to, you know, play around a little bit with recipes to be able to get the best flavor for it. Um, recommendations I always give to people when they're first starting into this to be able to get big flavor is to be able to pick things that are in season. 'cause they have the most, uh, well-developed flavor. Um, the closer they're picked, um, you know, the closer you are to where they're picked off the vine or the tree or whatever it came from, the more flavor they're going to have. So, um, even if it's in the middle of winter, you can still get things that are hydroponically grown, which is great, and get them more local to you. And I highly recommend that, uh, using fresh herbs is great because it'll add a big potent flavor to it as well. Um, you know, so those are probably a couple ways to be able to start that out. And the more techniques and, um, the more you know cooking, you'll learn on that, the better you'll get and make the food taste great.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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