Want to HOST...
A Magical
FALL HARVEST
DINNER PARTY...
That gets a
Standing Ovation?
All levels of plant-based cooks and food artists are welcome...
even if you have never cooked (or hosted) a plant-based dinner party!
This Fall...
Impress Your Guests...
with the latest farmers market...
and plant-based dinner trends...
at your Dinner Party!
In the 3-Day LIVE Virtual Interactive Culinary Experience...
You will learn and experience
the proven plant-based skills...
To Shop, Cook and Create...
Your Plant-Based Fall Harvest Dinner Party...
That is so beautiful your friends will almost not want to eat it...
And, you will be the talk of the town!
P.S. Even if you don't have a lot of time
& think you are not creative...
P.P.S. And, even if you have never created
a beautiful plant-based dinner in your life!
P.P.P.S. No worries if you don't have a farmers market now, Melanie will give you shopping options.
During the extremely interactive online virtual 3-day experience, Melanie Albert will demonstrate creating beautiful farm-to-table appetizers, entrees, and desserts.
Plus, you will have the opportunity to share your ideas with others in the event and ask your questions.
During the 3-Day LIVE Interactive Online Virtual
Plant-Based Food Art Experience we will...
DAY 1: Get Inspired
THE FOOD
from farm
Discover the 3 Essential Keys to create your "standing ovation" dinner party.
- Learn how to Shop the Farmers Market with the insider tips from plant-based chefs for the "best" freshest food, even if you don't have time to shop.
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Embrace the proven essential foundation techniques to easily create beautiful eye-catching dishes, even if your dishes are usually quite boring.
- Be inspired and all set to create your own beautiful plant-based Avocado Tartare Appetizer and showcase the beauty of local, seasonal produce, herbs, and edible flowers.
DAY 2: Get Excited
THE CULINARY
to kitchen
Embrace "No Recipe Cooking" to create amazing meals. Get excited to WOW!
- Explore an exciting new way to think about Plant-Based Cooking (Culinary) that will give you all you need to easily cook great plant-based meals with local farmers goodies.
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Learn the "no recipe way" of plant-based cooking, instead of trying to cook with those complicated recipes!
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Discover the top 3 ways to elevate your own beautiful Raw Carrot Cake to WOW...so your friends give you that standing ovation.
DAY 3: Get Creative
THE FOOD ART
to table
Get Creative by creating your own Signature food presentation style.
- Get clear on the food art process to create your own beautiful plant-based "art on a plate"...from the basics to creating your own signature style.
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Discover the most important thing to do (that might surprise you) to create your own signature appetizers, entrees, and desserts with local farmers produce, herbs, and edible flowers.
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Embrace your creativity as you begin to visualize your own Signature Style by experiencing a brand new Signature Fall Veggie Dish.
Are YOU Ready to Create A Fall Harvest Dinner Party that WOWS so much that you'll get that Standing Ovation?
You'll Learn what you need...
From Farm to Kitchen to Table...
- Get clear on the 6 ways to easily cook veggies, so you don't cook the same old boring meals all the time.
- Embrace intuitive cooking. Learn how to easily create tasty meals without recipes.
- Discover the one thing most home chefs get wrong. (And, what to do to make sure every meal tastes great.)
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Embrace creativity as Melanie demos her incredible Signature Raw Carrot Cake to WOW!
- Learn how the "power of 3" elevates your beautiful desserts, and veggie dishes, too.
- Embrace flower power. Learn which flowers you really can eat. (And, a novel idea for edible flowers!)
- Learn the absolute best way to know when your "food art" is just right.
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Discover the 3 important phases of food presentation to create your own signature style (even if you think you are not creative.)
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Get inspired as Melanie intuitively creates a brand new Signature Fall Veggie Food Art dish with local farmers' produce, herbs, and edible flowers.
Getting set for Big Game
Plant-Based Food Art Challenge!
Fun Zoom LIVE Interaction!
Farmers Market Shopping for 20 years!
Started in Santa Fe in 2003.
Now enjoy our many Arizona farmers markets.
Farm-to-Table Earth Day Experience
at The Farm at South Mountain
Creating beautiful farm-to-table Avocado Tartare
at our Sedona Retreat
Meet Your Host
MELANIE ALBERT
Creator of the Plant-Based Food Art Movement
Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC, Phoenix, Arizona
Melanie has hosted fun, interactive plant-based farm-to-table culinary experiences since 2008.
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Events, corporate wellness, media events, team building, non-profits, classes, and Sedona weekend retreats.
- 4 Super Bowls and 2011 Official Health & Wellness Partner of the NFL Alumni Association
- Live in-person, cooking videos, and virtual online Challenges and Experiences.
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On location at urban farms and farmers markets, along with client venues.
Whole Foods Expert for nearly 20 years.
- She brings a wealth of integrative nutrition and medicine knowledge around food to her plant-based culinary.
- For 9 years served as a marketing, branding, and licensing consultant to integrative medicine pioneer, Andrew Weil, MD / Weil Lifestyle.
- 2007 graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Plant-Based Culinary Training & Teaching since 2015.
- 610 hours of Professional Plant-Based Culinary Training. Cooked, Raw, Superfoods.
- Culinary Instructor for 6 years: On campus classroom and online course creator, on-camera chef and instructor at healing arts institute.
Published Author and In the Media
- Award-winning published cookbook author, "A New View of Healthy Eating"
- In the Media: Natural Awakenings Arizona, Edible Phoenix, The List TV national lifestyle show.
- Food Photography Award: 3rd place "Best Food Photo," 2019 Association of Food Journalists.
Melanie lives the lifestyle!
- No meat for 35 years!
- Organic for 30 years!
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Farmers market shopping for 20 years!
Raw Carrot Cake Created
in Plant-Based Food Art Challenge
Clients & Collaborations
What Leaders are Saying...
"Melanie’s knowledge of seasonal cooking shines at our Taste of the Market cooking demonstrations. She blends her passion for intuitive cooking with mindfulness as she shares simple culinary techniques to make healthy dishes at home. Melanie’s natural cooking helps shoppers eat seasonal while supporting local produce and slow food. After enjoying a taste of her dishes, customers enjoy chatting with Melanie and learning nutritional tips and other cooking ideas. She’s definitely become a part of the Market family!"
Sara Matlin
Former Executive Director
"Melanie Albert and EXPERIENCE NUTRITION are the leaders in healthy cooking ideas. Mel is detail oriented and her culinary knowledge offers expert insights. She engages her audiences with charm and authentic take away tips. I would recommend her for any cooking classes or food demonstrations."
Douglas Mackenzie
Former Director of Media Relations Visit Phoenix
"The EXPERIENCE NUTRITION and the Health & Wellness hands-on nutrition and healthy eating educational programs and cookbook have inspired and changed many of the HOF Players lives for the better by assisting them to strive for healthier lives through simple eating and life style changes.
The Hall of Fame Players Classic is honored to be associated with the EXPERIENCE NUTRITION program and with such an amazing woman and strongly recommend her and EXPERIENCE NUTRITION."
Megan Holland
President/Founder Hall of Fame Players Golf Classic / Foundation
Honored to be Featured in the Media...
What an honor for one of my food art photos to be featured on the cover of "Natural Awakenings", highlighting my recipe article in the January 2019 issue.
Another honor...this food art photo was honored as Third Place for "Best Food Photo" in the Association of Food Journalists 2019 national competition.
What an honor to be featured on "The List", national syndicated lifestyle tv show. One of my favorites was our Banana Skin segment with banana bread and beet burgers.
See what others have created...
Plant-Based Food Art with Melanie Albert
