Events
BB’s workshops and events are experiences more than dining and learning. She creates spaces that invite you to find pleasure, curiosity, celebration be challenged and play – often building community, deep connections to each other, to nature, queerness and to food itself. From intimate banquets, multi-sensory interactive curated spaces to unique training and residency programs, there is always something exciting and powerful about these events.
contact.bbskitchen@gmail.com for all events, as most are not publicly listed
Next Events:
Anti-faScist valentines feast
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FEAST FOR HEBA
This online workshop and dinner party gathering is an invitation to gather in resistance and hope, to meet and cook across lands &
break bread together.
This space will be in three parts:
The first hour is a workshop offering space to shift the way you cook and your relationship to food. This will have reflective writing questions and ideas for how to cook your dish/s
Then there will be a break for an hour to cook your food.
The last part we eat together with invitations to share stories and experiences.
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This virtual dinner party invites us to meet as strangers and eat as friends.
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You will need to be in a space where you can access a kitchen and have some food in. Don’t try to plan what you will cook as you will be invited to cook intuitively and experimentally in this session with whatever you have in your cupboards.
SLIDING SCALE DONATIONS:
This space is to raise funds for Heba and her children Malak, Malik and Amir who are all struggling with serious health conditions and chronic illness. They live in Gaza and have no income to support their basic needs. Let’s honor Heba and have a feast that brings the material support she desperately needs right now. It’s time to show up.
Monday 23rd February 6.330 – 9pm
Online
£5 – £80
How to book
COOKERY COURSE FLAVOUR EXPLOSIONS: PLANT-BASED RETREAT CHEF TRAINING
This fully comprehensive course is designed for established chefs, retreat chefs, both professional and passionate home cooks with a strong understanding of food. It’s aimed at those who want to master the art of creating exquisite plant-based dishes for professional and high standard European retreat and remote kitchens.
You’ll leave with developed menu plans covering at least two weeks of diverse savory dishes, along with the skills and confidence to run a kitchen independently—working with fresh ingredients, live food and creating food from scratch with ease.
In the course you will be given the framework to meet all the needs of a retreat kitchen and cook explosive food; learning the guests patterns and tastes, and designing menus that flow with each week’s journey. You will master flavor switching to delight diverse palates and effortlessly adapt dishes to dietary needs. Craft classic naturally plant-based dishes as well as more unique flavour bombs. Hands-on, practical, experimental and packed with ideas and skills so that you leave with the confidence and inspiration to head chef retreat kitchens.
Course Schedule: 2nd–9th April
A 1-week training experience on the rural coast of Crete, Greece, at Yoga Rocks Retreat, with accommodation, all meals, and materials included.
€1690
Payment plans available
How to book
cheftrainingcrete@gmail.com
Testimonials
“Every time I eat Bryony’s food, it’s like a different party in my mouth.”
— Maylis Sita Parisot, Chef and owner of award winning vegan restaurant Savvy, Paris
“This is better than Antikristo! (A traditional way meat is grilled in Crete for special occasions.) If I ate this all the time, I’d be bigger than I am now!”
— Yanni Milidakis, meat-loving Cretan chef with experience at Mykonos No. 5 Hotel Restaurant and five-star hotels across Greece, including Aqua Blu (Kos), Grecotel Creta Palace (Crete), and AquaGrand (Rhodes).
“I’d go on your cooking course”
— Several Chefs on training in days at the Yoga Rocks Retreat
“Let’s do a Yoga Rocks cookbook together”
— Paul Rankin, Michelin Starred Chef
PAST Events
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Winter Feast
Coexist Kitchen, Bristol, UK
19th December, 7pm – 10pm
An explosive small plates banquet to excite all food lovers,
bringing extra celebration and sparkle to the festive period. All plant-based, mostly wild.
This event is all about pleasure, indulgence and sensory explosions.
The Food:
This specially selected sharing feast is designed to give you an abundance of different dishes and treats to try.
Ingredients include foraged mountain and forest herbs, hand gathered Cretan sea salt and single estate Cretan virgin Koroneiki olive oil.
Sample of menu:
Greek aubergines slow roasted with tomatoes, olive oil, cinnamon, roast orange peel, fig leaf, crumbled fermented cashew feta
Lemon roast potatoes with pine and olive leaves
Rock samphire pesto
Roasted mushroom caps with chestnut cheese and pickled grape hyacinth bulbs
Greek olives with preserved rock samphire
Sea water fermented red cabbage with sunflower seed cream and poppyseed and olive puree.
Fresh rocket and wild greens with roasted beetroot, grape molasses and fermented beet stems.
Filo pies with cultured blue pine nut cheese and caramelised shallots in fig syrup
There will be more dishes, drinks included and surprises! – But feel free to BYOB
£34 per person – Profit to Esims For Gaza
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Radical Healing Feast: For Survivors of Sexual Violence
A mini course and feast celebrating healing foods, plants and processes that support our resilience
This day will introduce you to plants and foods that help take care of our bodies and mental health (especially if we have been through trauma).
We will look at:
Basic plant properties and medicinal herbal teas for mental health and nervous system Introduction to wild food/foraging plant identification (including a short walk)
Making a ferment to take home
Cooking and preparing food and learning about flavour combinations (including making different pestos and flatbreads)
Thinking about what food or plants our bodies need
A shared feast
All food is plant-based
Sometimes we can feel powerless in recovering and responding to trauma and chaos but gaining knowledge about and relationship to plants can give us more power, grounding and control in our recovery.
In times of many injustices, suffering and oppression we will gather to explore where we can find trust, connection and healing in plants and food around us.
3.30pm to 8.30pm Coexist Community Kitchen, Easton
This event is specifically for survivors of sexual violence
£ Free – (Recovery Shouldn’t Be A Luxury)
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Secret Autumn Celebration Feast
A very small and intimate feast in Paris, celebrating the beginning of Autumn, transitions and queerness
Paris, France
5th October, 8pm
This specially selected plates menu is designed to give you an abundance of different dishes and treats to try.
Ingredients include foraged mountain, coastal and forest herbs, hand gathered Cretan sea salt and single estate Cretan virgin Koroneiki olive oil. Below are some of the tastes to expect on the night. There will be some surprises too.
€27 per person, very limited places
To request booking email contact.bbskitchen@gmail.com
Details of venue given after booking
Vegan Cookery Course: Flavour Explosions
This course will explore the different elements of curating flavour combinations and textures to build exciting plates though play and intuition.
We will look at different processes and cooking bases to fuel ideas and inspiration and encourage experimentation. It hopes to challenge you to move you away from set recipes and into intuitive cooking and play; a different kind of cooking course.
8th January 4pm- 9.30pm | Coexist Kitchen, Bristol, UK
Covering:
Nut and plant cheese (and cream sauce bases)
Pestos (including sun-dried tomato, sage and walnut pesto)
Rich and deep sauces (including greek and mexican influences)
Simple ways to flavour and prepare vegetables (and fresh herbs)
We will learn about different ways to prepare and cook food and then eat a shared feast from all the different dishes we have prepared.
Course level: This course is suitable for any lover of food and all level of skill and knowledge (including passionate home cooks , chefs and professionals looking for new inspiration and those with little or no experience in cooking)
If buying this for a Xmas gift please specify so you can receive a gift voucher version of the ticket.
£64 per person
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ANTI / DOOMED FEAST
This feast invites you to think about the food itself and its origins, culture, history and links to magic and medicine
UGLY DUCK 13.10.23
7pm – 9.30pm
An intimate feast designed to feed you with vitality, connection, power and resilience. Offerings of different dishes and treats intuitively prepared with foraged ingredients, ferments and medicinal plants that are connected to healing, resistance and queerness – An antidote to doom. All plant-based. .
Ingredients include foraged mountain, coastal, medow and forest herbs from the UK and Crete and hand gathered Cretan sea salt. Below are some of the tastes to expect on the night. There will be some suprises too.
£25 per person, limited places
To Book: https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/anti-doomed-feast/
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Autumn Celebration Feast
An intimate feast in Bristol, celebrating the beginning of Autumn
Coexist Kitchen, Bristol, UK
16th October, 7pm
This specially selected menu is designed to give you an abundance of different dishes and treats to try.
Eight main dishes and some surprise canapés and treats. Invitations for curious conversations.
Ingredients include foraged mountain, coastal and forest herbs from the UK and Crete and hand gathered Cretan sea salt. Below are some of the tastes to expect on the night. There will be some suprises too.
£43 per person, limited places
To request booking email contact.bbskitchen@gmail.com