Culinary Institute of Barcelona
PEC·H
For individuals, chefs and nutritional professionals who want to integrate health into the 21st century gastronomy.
Beyond integrative and healthy cooking
We will show you how to create, innovate and take the lead in healthy cuisine in the 21st century
Preparing for healthy cooking in the 21st century
Putting vegetables in the spotlight
80% of this program is a plant based cooking course in vegetarian and vegan cuisine. You will learn how to prepare a plant based gastronomic proposal, learn about gastrobotany, vegetarian cooking and different vegetable proteins, discover alternatives to eggs and dairy for vegan cooking, prepare healthy vegan desserts.
Mastering culinary trends focused on health and wellness
Know and merge the culinary currents of healthy and therapeutic eating such as anti-inflammatory diet, fasting, ketogenic diet, raw food and ayurvedic cuisine.
Adapt healthy cuisine for each consumer
Creating, adjusting, rethinking and planning nutrition for different physiological and hormonal stages, diseases and nutritional needs.
Scientific knowledge and its culinary application
Learn the basic concepts of food and nutrition and apply PNI psychoneuroimmunology to gastronomy in a personalized way. To know the main food intolerances, the role of the intestinal microbiota in health and to identify hormonal or metabolic alterations that require food adaptation.
Introduction to cooking for athletes
Knowing the basic principles of sports nutrition and its practical application in the kitchen to achieve menus focused on meeting the energy and nutritional needs of athletes, improve their performance and recovery.
To create and innovate in the service of healthy cooking
Discover vacuum and low-temperature cooking, work on optimal cooking techniques to preserve the nutritional properties of food while enhancing its gastronomic flavor.
Living the product
To value the origin of food, the concept of sustainability and proximity cuisine, to claim the importance of seasonality and to be inspired by the environment as the main pantry betting on the use of sustainable raw materials.
Attitude and skills
Encourage creativity to learn from individual experience and teamwork to create and develop new gastronomic proposals that add value and competitive advantages.
230 hours designed to transform
every day of your learning into a show
20+
TEACHERS
THE BEST IN THEIR FIELD
30+
HOURS
OF CHALLENGES & WORKSHOP THAT
WILL PUT YOU TO THE TEST
4
WORKSHOPS
MORE THAN 20 HOURS TO PUSH YOUR LEARNING TO THE LIMIT
3
FIELD TRIPS
DISCOVER AND EXPERIENCE
ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS
3
CHALLENGES
OUR ASSESSMENT IS YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE
We don't teach you recipes, that would be teaching you how to copy
Here we teach you to create and lead the way in the 21st century
Being a chef in healthy cooking also means discovering raw materials and how they are consumed and transformed responsibly and sustainably
For individuals, chefs and healthcare professionals
who want to positively impact the health and well-being of others
I want to specialize as a healthy cooking chef
For professional chefs who want to focus on the field of plant based and healthy cooking.
I want to expand my culinary knowledge
For doctors, nutritionists and dieticians who want to apply culinary knowledge to their professional background in various fields such as macrobiotics, Ayurveda, hormonal changes or improving the gut microbiota.
I want to be a coach and chef specialized in healthy eating
For chefs or nutrition experts who want to offer integrated nutrition solutions through cooking intended for consumer's wellness plans.
I want to be able to understand my body
and generate a diet adapted to my dietary needs or those of my environment. My health is my top priority.
I want to apply psychoneuroimmunology to personalized gastronomy
For PNIE experts who want to apply culinary techniques and technologies to their knowledge of psychoneuroimmunology in 360 degrees.
I want to improve the physical and mental performance of my patients
For professionals in the sports sector who want to integrate integrative medicine to gastronomy to improve the personalized nutrition system of their patients.
I want to discover the impact of food on health
and how to get into therapeutic cooking.
Visionary people from around the world who want to
revolutionize healthy and integrative cooking
75%+
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
You will live with entrepreneurial students from all over the world.
28.7
AVERAGE AGE
Experiences from all ages that will enrich your learning.
70%
PROFESSIONALS
From the culinary, health and nutrition sectors who have been adding value for years.
100%
AWARE
That healthy cooking is a necessity. For us and for the planet.
50%
ARE CHEFS
Your peers are pursuing a professional career in gastronomy.
70%+
WANT TO START A BUSINESS
Professional friendships with like-minded entrepreneurs.
YOU BELIEVE THAT
Education in healthy cooking offered today is outdated
Education is an investment in your future
Education today is not aligned with 21st century life
Education in healthy cooking must be international
Education should allow for a positive work-life balance
Barcelona is a leading city in international gastronomic innovation
YOUR GOAL IS
To be an active player in new trends and frontiers
To become an expert in using cooking to benefit health and well-being
To take your career to the next level
To acquire the best education
To stand out from the crowd
YOU ARE
Entrepreneurial
Non-conformist
Passionate
Defiant
Creative
We hear from the CIBers, the future leaders
"I have evolved as a chef to improve others’ quality of life”
“Cooking challenge, from food to nutrition”
Your time is now
Early enrollment offer
The sooner you enrol, the less you pay
Upcoming admission calls
Absolutely everything
Uniform
All the uniform you will need for the 230 hours of the postgraduate course. You will only need to bring your knife set with you. In case you don't have one, you will be able to buy it at the school.
All raw ingredients
At no other school in the world will you get to handle and cook with as many raw ingredients as at the CIB, all included in the price of the course.
All the experiences
All program activities, both at the CIB and off campus are included in the price.
CIB Membership
You will become a CIBer for the rest of your life. You will have access to unique job offers, benefits and professional opportunities.
Graduation ceremony
You will remember this day as one of the most special and memorable days of your life.
The CIB is just the beginning
Attitude
CIBers
Being a CIBer means being ready for tomorrow. They are united by this forward-thinking attitude and their goal of impacting the future by enhancing their surroundings.
Job opportunities
CIB alumni have access to our job bank called "I want a CIBer". The CIB is a guarantee of talent for restaurants, hotels and food companies.
Entrepreneurship
We nurture the talent that comes from our classrooms. We are surrounded by great professionals who will know how to accompany you in the initial stages of your projects.
Events
The CIB organizes and hosts many events, and you, as a student or alumnus, will always be more than welcome.
Networking
When you finish your course, besides the knowledge you will have acquired, you’ll also have gained countless contacts of talented students from across the world, as well as your teachers. It will be up to you to make the most of them.
The next generation of teachers
We keep an eye out for talent and nurture that which emerges from our classrooms. Sometimes we have the honor of incorporating this talent into our team.
Your continuous education
CIBers will always have privileged access to our continuous education programs under the best conditions, including our postgraduate programs.
Use of the facilities
The CIB will be available for you to accelerate your ideas, give your presentations or propose an activity whenever you need it.
Whatever your future holds
We teach you how to stand out
Careers:
Specialist chef in healthy cooking
Cooking professionals in hospitals, schools and communities
R&D leaders for healthy cooking projects
Healthy cooking consultant and adviser
Monitoring healthy cooking in schools
Expanding nutrition services applied to cooking
Health coach
Entrepreneurial business in healthy gastronomy
Your competitive advantages:
You will have an exceptional level of knowledge of the ingredients, their nutritional content and the individual cooking techniques needed to prepare medicinal dishes.
You will have a holistic vision of different types of diseases and conditions and their nutritional and dietary requirements.
You will obtain broad and comprehensive knowledge to develop alternatives and solutions that benefit people’s health and well-being
Your vision and training will be suitable for providing solutions to food problems and restrictions.
You will obtain a well-rounded understanding of gastronomy that will make you rethink the dishes you prepare in the future.
You will be able to create meal plans and culinary solutions to help others with specific problems.
Our admissions team will walk you through each of these simple steps
Step 1
The first step is as simple as filling out the contact form for one of our advisors to contact you.
Step 2
We will assign you a personal advisor who will call you as soon as possible and will guide and support you throughout the process to answer all your questions.
Step 3
It is time to complete the admission form. This step is crucial to successfully reaching the next stage of the application process.
Step 4
If your admission form impressed us, you will move on to the interview phase with the Admissions Committee. This online interview will be set at a specific time depending on availability.
Step 5
If you pass our evaluation interview, our Admissions Committee will send you an email with the exciting news that you have been accepted into the Culinary Institute of Barcelona.
Step 6
You will have to reserve your place the same week you receive the acceptance email, and pay the rest of the registration fee within 15 days (30% of the total amount of the course you have chosen).
Step 1
The first step is as simple as filling out the contact form for one of our advisors to contact you.
Step 2
We will assign you a personal advisor who will call you as soon as possible and will guide and support you throughout the process to answer all your questions.
Step 3
It is time to complete the admission form. This step is crucial to successfully reaching the next stage of the application process.
Step 4
If your admission form impressed us, you will move on to the interview phase with the Admissions Committee. This online interview will be set at a specific time depending on availability.
Step 5
If you pass our evaluation interview, our Admissions Committee will send you an email with the exciting news that you have been accepted into the Culinary Institute of Barcelona.
Step 6
You will have to reserve your place the same week you receive the acceptance email, and pay the rest of the registration fee within 15 days (30% of the total amount of the course you have chosen).
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