Keralas first Vegan Cooking Competition

 New York native, Vegan Celebrity Chef and wellness expert, Jacques Laventure, hosts Kerala’s first Vegan Cooking competition and launches Get Fit Eat Well Kerala, where he will fuse his trademark bold flavors with traditional authentic Kerala recipes. A fun cooking competition where local celebrities from different walks of life participate will be a highlight of the event. This will be Jacque’s first visit to India as part of The Get Fit Eat Well Movement* ™. During the event, the International Culinary Center Alum is excited to share some of fitness tips he used to make Hollywood celebrities in shape. Known as the ‘Fit Vegan Chef’, Chef Jacques’s mission is to design international flavors that change the way people think and feel about plant based foods. Chef Jacques Laventure is one of the New York’s hottest wellness experts, who has taught many boot camp and culinary classes throughout the NYC area for colleges and private institutions. He has developed a large fan base due to these workshops. Jacques has worked with several organizations like American Heart Association, MTV, American Diabetes Society, NYC Department of Health, DART, few schools in Shanghai etc. Jacques is passionate about helping people achieve a healthy body weight by adopting a regime of increased physical activity and healthy eating habits. Learn more at http://jacqueslaventure.com/

Chef Jacques founded Get Fit Eat Well along with his wife Dr. Shyno Mathew with the mission to promote the “eco-friendly Farm-to-Table” concept, where they mix culinary arts with the sciences to create healthy and tasty recipes. Learn more https://getfiteatwell.com/ Dr. Shyno Mathew is a native of Kerala, she grew up in Kottayam and went to US for her college studies at Drexel University. After graduation, she continued to her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University. Her speciality is in Epigenetics, in simple words, your environment can control your genes. She says “Let us use epigenetics to benefit us and our society!”

*Buffet style brunch prepared by Chefs are included in the ticket price