The interest in health-conscious lifestyles and diet has spurred the demand for wholesome, tasty, nutritious and visually appealing alternative menu choices in an expanding arena of dining experiences. Restaurants, resorts, adventure tour companies are among those who are rapidly diversifying and developing to cater to the growing demand for vegetarian menu choices. Selkirk College now offers the only professional vegetarian cooking program in western Canada. Combining traditions, recipes and ingredients from the world's cuisines, students prepare a variety of breakfast items, soups, sauces, salads, appetizers, wraps, tarts, timbales, entrees, casseroles, stews and more.
Students learn to convert recipes from traditional to natural and vegan ingredients.
Consideration will also be given to applicants who posses valid Food Safe Level I certification and demonstrate evidence of prior experience in the culinary industry as a cook. All applicants are required to compete a personal interview with the program instructor and exhibit standards of personal hygiene and sanitation required by the Department of Health and Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia. Applicants are required to complete pre-admission tests in reading, writing and math. An examination of the history of vegetarian traditions together with the theoretical approaches to diet and health. The identification and comparison of the main vegetarian diets is undertaken.