Food as Medicine
Where Chinese medicine enters the kitchen.
Medicinal Cooking is where Chinese medicine enters the kitchen. In this session, food is not treated as separate from healing, but as one of its most familiar forms. Ingredients are chosen not only for flavour, but for their traditional qualities — warming or cooling, moistening or drying, strengthening or moving. You will learn how herbs and everyday foods can be paired with intention, creating dishes that nourish while responding to the body’s needs. This is practical knowledge designed for real life. Each bowl becomes more than a meal: it becomes a quiet act of care, seasonality, and balance.