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Food as Medicine Cooking Classes

A fabulous food adventure —  with Chef Karina Hines

What we eat every day directly impacts our health—for better or worse. Food is a powerful tool in healthcare, and cooking is self-care. Learn how to cook with everyday ingredients and follow an anti-inflammatory eating style to support your health in our fun and interactive cooking classes.

Casco Bay Seaweed Salad with Wild Pine Vinaigrette

Food as Medicine Cooking Classes

Anchored in Real Food — Designed for Real Life

Our classes are an invitation to connect with the food you eat, where it comes from, and how it impacts your health. We explore everyday ingredients and local food through a food-as-medicine lens and the simplicity of  bringing nourishing food to your table.

Together, we learn how to cook easy, flavourful meals while following an anti-inflammatory eating style— practical, simple, sensible dishes that support your health every day.

What we have for you…

  • Fabulous Local Food Fun + Interesting Insights
  • Introduction to Maine’s Coastal Seaweeds
  • Simple + Practical Recipes You Can Recreate
  • Everyday Food as Medicine Wisdom
  • Chef Tips — Functional + Nutritional
  • Lots of “Tasting the Magic of Maine”
  • Passionate People Who Truly Love Food + Care
    We are collaborative women-owned business change makers!
Chef Karina + Parsley + Herbs
Healthy Food Table
BK Super Seed Mix
Green Spark Pesto
Seaweeds - Kelp, Irish Moss + Rockweed + Bladderwrack
Nourishing Seaweed Bone Broth with Fresh Kelp
Smoothie Banana Mango & Blueberry
Root Vegetables Thumbnail
Parsnips & Spices on Roasting Sheet
Blueberry Oat Muffins
Crunchy Salad + Chickpea Quinoa
Seaweed Bread GF
Green Goblin with Snap Peas
Fresh Local Food
Fish Tacos with Tomato & Avocado
Chocolate Pumpkin Tahini Bliss Balls
Creamy Cacao Quinoa Tahini
Maine Food as Medicine Breakfast Parfaits
Spinach & Quinoa Frittata with Avocado
Ginger Tea with Honey

Book a class — Learn to cook anti-inflammatory food with confidence.

Healthy Food Table

Learn to Cook 

My Classes are Fun, Engaging + Practical

What’s Included in the Cooking Class

  • 2 hr class with Food as Medicine Chef Karina Hines.
  • Recipes using Anti-inflammatory in-season ingredients.

  • An immersion into the magical flavours of Maine

  • You will eat all the dishes prepared during the class.
  • Enjoy pairings with local drinks, infusions, brews, wild ferments, wine, beer, or spirits.
  • Recipe gift bags to help you cook seaweed with confidence.
  • Subscription to Botanical Kitchen’s healthy recipes.
  • Exclusive discounts from local businesses we love.
Chef Karina with Citrus

 

"Food is a powerful tool in healthcare,
and cooking is self-care.

The foundation for supporting vibrant health is following an anti-inflammatory eating style.
What we eat every day directly impacts our health—for better or worse."


Karina Hines​
An Australian food-as-medicine chef and functional nutrition practitioner living in Portland, Maine, guiding people how to cook to support their health and connect with seasonal, locally grown ingredients.

Chef + Botanical Kitchen Founder + CFNC

 

Food as Medicine Cooking Classes — choose your anti-inflammatory adventure!

We work with you to curate your experience based on your choice of flavour and spirit for adventure. You can choose an immersive demonstration workshop or roll up your sleeves and get cooking with chef Karina's guidance and the ingredients she gathers for you. We can easily accommodate gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, food allergies and therapeutic dietary restrictions.

 

Coastal Maine Seaweed Cooking Class
Explore coastal Maine seaweeds and learn their food-as-medicine benefits, along with practical ways to incorporate small amounts of seaweeds into everyday dishes while balancing flavours. We will make a seaweed-infused mocktail and a selection of recipes using local, in-season ingredients for you to try. You choose which protein you like — meat, poultry, fish or plant-based.

 

Fresh Catch — Healthy  Fish Cooking Class
Learn simple, healthy ways to cook three different local fish in this interactive demonstration-style cooking class.
We will explore simple techniques, flavour pairings, and practical methods you can use at home to prepare fish with confidence using local, in-season ingredients. 


Chef's Farmer’s Market Finds — Anti-inflammatory  Cooking Class
Learn to cook with the rhythm of the seasons and how to make fun and flavourful dishes with what's fresh from the farmers’ market, guided by an anti-inflammatory, food-as-medicine approach. We will make a selection of vibrant dishes from dips to salads and desserts, using what’s in season straight from local farms and markets, with a focus on ingredients that support digestion, energy and metabolic health. Sit back, sip herbal infusions and watch Karina create vibrant dishes or roll up your sleeves and hone your knife skills.

 

Learn to Cook to Meet Your Specific Needs, Health & Enjoy Eating Great Food - we tailor classes to meet your needs.

—   GPL-1  Clients — Healthy Clean Proteins + Low Carbs + Daily Practices to Support your Health

—   Gut Health + Digestion, Energy and Metabolic Health — Everything is Connected

—   Cook to Combat Chronic Illness, Recovery & Disease Management

—   Hormone Balance and Reproductive Health — Cook to Create Balance
 
—   Menopause — Support the Divine Feminine Journey through Menopause
 —   Living Vibrantly with Food Allergies + Therapeutic Dietary Needs — How to Plan + Cook + Eat Fabulous Food

 

 

Demonstration Cooking Classes

Hands-on Cooking Classes

Cooking Class Series
Wellness Programs

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ASK about our Cooking Series & Corporate Wellness Programs

 

Other Cooking Classes + Workshops + Wellness Programs We Offer