7 Secrets From the Pritikin Chefs

When you first begin to cook without butter, oils, salt, and sugar, you're apt to feel lost without these familiar culinary aids. Learning how to season with herbs, spices, and other condiments is the key to preparing tasty dishes! And it's a lot easier than you might think!

Join us for a special Hands-On Cooking and Dining Program starting April 19th and learn first-hand the secrets of professional chefs in a very personalized setting. You’ll actually prepare meals and learn how easy it can be to prepare tasty, healthy cuisine.

Hands-On Cooking & Dining - 04/19 to 5/3/08

You special program includes the Pritikin Health and Weight Loss Program PLUS:

• Hands-on cooking classes that include preparation of soups, stocks, salads, dressings, fish/seafood, and chicken.
• Workshop and four-course dinner led and prepared by guest chef Allen Susser from Miami's renowned Chef Allen's Restaurant
• Trip to produce company
• Trip to seafood/fish company
• Shopping trip to supermarket
• Beach BBQ
• Gourmet restaurant evening trip to savor the best local cuisine prepared the Pritikin way
• Your own custom Pritikin Chef's jacket

Pritikin Guests enjoyed a similar personalized cooking program at Pritikin this summer, “and it was spectacular,” says Alum Ron Gerhart of Virginia, who attended. “The whole experience was fun and informative, and very hands on.”

“I went because I needed new recipes. I was getting bored with the 5 or 10 I’d been making at home,” explains Ron. What he also got – and really appreciated – were field trips, an enlightening lecture on herbs, a class with guest chef Allen Susser of Chef Allen’s Restaurant, and “a lot of great chefs’ tips that I’m now using every day.”

Here are 7 of our chefs’ tips for healthy, flavorful cooking!

1. Searing

To get a good sear on your food, from seafood to veggies, don’t cook a lot of servings at once. “You don’t want to overcrowd the pan,” explains Chef Anthony. Also, make sure your pan is very hot. Once hot, put your servings in. Then leave them alone. Do not turn them or stir them until you see some browning about one-quarter of the way up.

2. Cutting Veggies and Herbs

Once vegetables and herbs are cut, they start to lose their flavor. So don’t cut them too long in advance. The closer to cooking time, the better.

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Specialty Weeks

1. The Pritikin Adventure
2. Women’s Health Getaway
3. Hands-On Cooking & Dining
4. Conquering Food Addictions
5. Pritikin Golf Clinic

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