Written by Executive Vegan Chef Ron Pickarski, The Classical Vegetarian Cookbook For Professional Chefs and Inspired Cooks is a modified version of the professional Certified Vegetarian Cook (CVC) certification program.  Upon reading this book, a novice vegetarian cook will have a comprehensive basic understanding of vegan and vegetarian cuisine.

Learn how to take what we like in meat and translate that into classical French and modern American vegan-vegetarian cuisine in ways that professional chefs and inspired cooks can integrate into their daily cuisine. 

Chef Ron Pickarski

Chef Ron Pickarski is an Executive Chef and founder of Eco-Cuisine. Health issues prompted Ron's discovery of the medicinal benefits of a vegetarian diet over 40 years ago, and since then, Chef Ron has spent his life creating classical and Modern American plant-based recipes as a cuisine and developing and perfecting plant-based mixes for use in the home and in professional kitchens.

Chef Ron has received many awards and honors in his career, including leading his team to a Gold Medal in the Culinary Olympics, being the sole chef chosen by the UN FAO to represent North America in the 2016 International Year of the Pulse, and presenting at the United Nations World Soil Conference.

Chef Ron spends a significant amount of time developing recipes, recipe concepts, and products in Eco-Cuisine’s kitchen and lab as well as educating others about vegetarian and vegan cooking techniques.  He recently published the most comprehensive instructional cookbook developed to teach chefs and inspired cooks how to prepare plant-based and vegetarian cuisine, titled The Classical Vegetarian Cookbook for Professional Chefs & Inspired Cooks.  It is available on Eco-Cuisine’s website in 134 countries with a 30% discount.