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Isn't It About Time You
Turn Your Boring Dishes Into a
Healthy Culinary Adventure?

 Then Join
The Seasoned Chef
Home Study Program

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"Eating is a major source of pleasure. This course comes with 'bragging rights'. Your guests won't be sure how you've done it, but they will know that they'd rather eat your food than anybody else's."

This practical, fun filled, interactive home study course gives you the knowledge and basic skills to turn your ordinary meals into healthy gastronomic delights.

Best of all is that you don't need to spend a small fortune on this e-learning program. Because your material is delivered via the internet this course is extremely affordable, and you can do it from anywhere in the world.

From day one, you'll be able to elevate your cooking from boring to extraordinary...

"The difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between good and brilliant, tasty and heavenly, hearty and unhealthy, can be summarized in one concept: HERBS and SPICES." - Michèlle van Breda, editor of 'Sarie' Magazine

This course is intended for people who want to learn how to use herbs and spices to add bigger and bolder flavour, freshness and flair to their dishes.

Upon completion of the Seasoned Chef you will be able to:

• Wow your guests with your mouth-watering culinary creations.

• Turn your ordinary, everyday dishes into flavourful, healthy meals.

• Add bigger and bolder flavour, freshness, and flair to your dishes.

• Stock your herb and spice pantry with a selection of popular herbs and spices. And discover how to store them in the correct way.

• Grow a few herbs of your own. It's the ultimate in culinary adventure. Fresh from the garden to the table.

• Avoid the 7 disasters waiting to happen when cooking with herbs and spices. Never again will you ruin a dish with herbs and spices.

• Make a selection of popular gourmet herb pantry products to spice up your cooking. These can easily be turned into a small home-based venture or given away as gifts. Where applicable, our detailed step-by-step guides even show you what can go wrong and why.

• Use our in-depth culinary profiles of a handful of the most popular and flavoursome herbs to lift your daily cooking to a new level.

• Use our extensive listings of 'flavour pals' and 'matches made in heaven' to mix and match herb and spices with each other and with your dishes.

• Explore the 6 levels of the flavour experience and use them to create an extraordinary sensory eating experience.

• Expand your culinary boundaries with two of South Africa's mouth-watering mother cuisines.

• Use our more than 300 herb-inspired recipes to wow your guests and to develop your own signature dishes.

• Develop your own healthy eating plan modelled after one of the healthiest diets available anywhere.

• Show that food that is healthy and food that gives pleasure are not mutually exclusive.

• Give your existing boring menu a complete make-over.

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You'll cover five subject areas

This is a practical course. Even the 'theory' part of the course needs to be taken into the kitchen and applied to your cooking. To bring this point home, we do not present the material in one big course workbook. We present it in subject specific mini-workbooks, and we call them mini-cookbooks, not workbooks.

Culinary Arts - In the five mini-cookbooks in this series we share the same cooking skills that students learn in professional culinary schools and how they can be applied to cooking for health and flavour. But we also go beyond that with in-depth material about using herbs and spices to add flavour and a healthy spin to your dishes.

Herb Profiles - In each mini-cookbook in this series an individual herb becomes your teacher. You'll discover important principles of using herbs in general and you'll learn the specifics of how and when to use the specific herb: good herbal partners; matches made in heaven; how to grow your own and how it can add vitality to your diet. The mini-cookbook also feature a collection of recipes that showcase the many facets of using the herb to create culinary masterpieces.

Pantry Products - There is a whole range of products like seasoning salts, splash & dash vinegars and herb infused oils that feature herbs and spices as a main ingredient. These gourmet pantry products are typically found in the deli-section of the supermarket and they bring a totally new dimension to any chef's cooking. Most can be likened to fresh herbs. Once you have learnt how to use them, they become an indispensable tool in your kitchen. In the five mini-cookbooks in this series you'll learn how to add eight of these to your repertoire.

Principles of a Healthy Diet - In the three mini-cookbooks in this series we share tips, techniques and ideas dealing with the principles of a healthy diet and how to develop you own healthy eating plan. We also share a model diet to help you develop your own healthy eating plan and herb-inspired healthy recipes to add to your own repertoire.

Popular Cuisines - In the two mini-cookbooks in this short series we explore the culinary profiles and classic recipes of two popular international cuisines. One is renowned for its use of herb and spices and the other for helping cooks develop their savoir faire. They both add a wonderful new dimension to your cooking. What's more, they are both mother cuisines of true South African cuisine.

For a description of each mini-cookbook please download the detailed course outline.

Choose a Format to Suit You!

The unique mini-cookbook (mini-workbook) format allows us to offer participants a full course or modular format study option.

The full course option is for those who like a structured approach to learning and it also offer a substantial cost saving. If you want to obtain the certificate you have to complete all five modules within 25 weeks of enrolling.

The modular study option is ideal for those who cannot commit to a 25 week course, preferring to order each of the five successive modules as and when they have time or the funds available. The biggest disadvantage of this option is that it costs slightly more than the full-time option. If you want to obtain the certificate you have to complete all five modules within one year of enrolling in the the first module.

How much time do you need?

To get the most value from this course plan to spend more time in the kitchen cooking with herbs and spices, than sitting on the couch reading.

If you opt for the full-time option you will be enrolled in the program for 25 weeks. During this period you will receive five special emails with instructions to download your five modules.

You will need to devote an average of about 2 hours per week to this course. Fifteen to thirty minutes reading through the mini-cookbook, selecting recipes, and typing up and emailing your short assignment. And about one and a half hours, doing what you do anyway, cooking for yourself and your guests. (So there is no huge additional demand on your time.)

But here's the great part. We know that you have other demands on your time and sometimes things don't go as planned. Therefore every fifth week in the full course option is a 'rest week' which gives you time to play catch-up if you've fallen behind.

You are not alone...

Even though this is a home study course you will not be all on your own. You get an experienced course facilitator, a real person with a real love for cooking with herbs, who is only an email or phone call away should you experience any problems with the program material.

Proudly Display Your Seasoned Chef Certificate.

If you successfully complete all the assignments within the time allowed for your study option, you will qualify for the Seasoned Chef Certificate. Don't look so worried. It's a lot easier than you think. And your facilitator is there to help you every step of the way.

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What does it cost?

The full course participation fees, which include all twenty mini-cookbooks, delivered in five modules of four mini-cookbooks each, amounts to a once-off amount of R595.

The part-time facilitation fee amounts to R150 per module. Each module consists of four mini-cookbooks.

When can you start?

Because this is a home study course there are no fixed start dates. Which means you can start right now.

What happens if you've paid and the course is not to your liking?

All our products and services are guaranteed. For the full-time option, there's a conditional guarantee. You will need to opt-out before starting with the second learning material package if you are not satisfied.

If you find that after you have received the first module, that this course is not what you expected simply email us, we'll be happy to give you your money back.

Important: There will be no refund after you have accessed and downloaded the second module in the full course option.

It's that simple. No questions asked. No hassles. No delays. We'll send your money back to you just as quickly as you sent it to us. That seems only fair.  And you may keep the first learning package.

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