The Practicum Exam

The diploma course is for those interested to practice and teach nutritional wisdom in community kitchens or in their homes as a holistic culinary instructor, or as a personal holistic chef for weathly families with special needs. 

An outline of our expectations are sent to you before your practicum exam. Create your menu plan, shop for organic foods, and do the three hour video, or, travel to see me on an appointment basis. We can arange for a sous chef for you if you come here. 

The practicum exam is three hours. You may make arrangements to come to our head office in the Ottawa River Valley, or arrange a video taping session with a friend in your own kitchen. If you could arrange with a chef in your area to hold your video camera for three hours, or a friend, or a famiy member to hold that camera, then we can process an assessment of your performance skills for $75,00 when you register for this exam. As a culinary instructor, you will express what you have learned. To create a classroom environment for yourself, have a few friends attend your practicum exam to create a realistic classroom atmosphere. They will help you magnify your message into your community to get your first classes started. During the taping, you will share seven selected recipes from the course and convey their special messages. Address how to reverse diabeties, or how a certain recipe helps to prevent heart disease or anemia, or cancer. Share your pleasant learning experiences with the food selected. Convey the importance of balanced nutrition for a balanced body and brain for a balanced life. 

Your sous chef

Arrange to have a sous chef with you. they help you to stay organized and on time. You will have the tape running while you set up, and then tape for two hours while you demo, and then tape while you pack up too, for a total of three hours on tape. Send this tape to our head office. We mark your persentation skills. 

Diploma DVD's

An additional seven seminars are sent to you, that wiill take up to four hours to view, but one is only twenty minutes to view. Your homework may take you one to two hours from this assignment on nutritional analysis. These qualified instructors are paid through the Academy. Please send $75,00 each one. This is over and above the basic certificate course. They include

A tape on making sour dough starter and buns.

"Live Blood Analysis and Hair Analysis" by Anna Midolo, RNC,

"Food Safety: (an Academic point of view,)"  by Dr. Larry McCuaig, Ph.D. nutrtion, 

"Marketing is 95% of Your Success" by Josephine Zappone, RNC, 

"Nutritional Analysis" by Lori Nichols Davies.  This twenty-minute DVD is on how to process the analysis of ingredients in your chosen recipe. As you learn the math to create a balanced recipe or a balanced meal, we expect that you will take an hour to complete the analysis and do adjustments for balance. Please test the recipe with the changes you have recommended. Your presentation report is marked by the originality of the title of the recipe, the neatness of your work, and your comments as to why you chose that recipe..  

A five-hour tape on Health Beauty and Strength with Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation ordered from NewTrendsPublishing.coml

Menu-Planning to Prevent or Treat Cancer - Chef Marni Wasserman - completed Feb 15 2010. This includes comments of safe cookware by Sandy Clubb of Salad Master cookware, and comments from Liala Ackerman on alkaline, ionized, restructured photonic water. This water has passed through a vortex of sacred geometry and has acquired the frequencies of truly healing water, similar to Lourdes, See www.photonicwater.com and Earthcalm.com to order two most reasonably priced protective device against electrical pollutions that disfigure our electrical or etheric body.   

Three-hour Seminar on Live Blood by Anna Midolo, RHN BLT, DHom 

The Body Talk Seminar

Attend a six hour Body Talk Access seminar to complete our diploma program. The Access Program was first developed in 2009 by John Veltheirm DC of Sarasota, FL.  We assign a teacher closest to you, as certified teachers are all over the world. You will learn how to help students assess whether a food will weaken or strengthen them. We prevent unpleasant reactive experiences with certain new foods in classrooms.  The nearest certified trainer near to you is found by Cherie Carpenter, RN of www.bodytalkcentral.com. This seminar is a wonderful and profound experience.  You pay the instructor, not the Academy, whatever the current fee is. Please confirm with us when this seminar is taken.  

Getting hair analysis and live blood work is also required of our culinary instructors for graduation

The Final Written Exam

The final written exam is based on fourteen of the books listed and six seminars in the diploma program. Please write in ink and mail the exam for written comments back.  students@holistic-cooking.com - or feel free to phone between 8 AM to 9 PM to 1-877-303-2085  to tell me your registration fee of $100.00 to have your exam marked is enclosed with the exam..

Please send your exam by special delivery with a tracer, as some exams have not arrived at their  correct destiny. .