Private Mauritian Cooking Class with Chef Parvine Toorawa

Join Sanctuary Kitchen for a cooking class led by Mauritian chef Parvine! Learn how to make Mauritian potato and chickpea curry and Indian Roti bread. Get to know Parvine, her culinary background, and Sanctuary Kitchen. 

One of my great things about cooking is that it is infinitely adaptable and you can add your own unique flair to it. Don’t have a yellow onion, but have a red one? Use what you have. Can’t find curry leaves? Omit them. The same recipe can yield different results depending on who is cooking it, but at the end of the day, it’ll still be delicious and we hope you have fun making it with us! 

Parvine Toorawa - Sanctuary Kitchen Chef 

Parvine grew up in Port Louis, Mauritius, a small island in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Parvine speaks three languages (Creole, French, and English) and taught cooking classes at Cornell for six years. She started cooking at the age of 14, not knowing anything about cooking, but eventually found her own way of mixing ingredients and grew to love it. Parvine’s cuisine is Creole and has influences from France and India. Parvine’s specialty is her curry with pumpkin and pineapple, her very own tasty invention.

Parvine started as a Sanctuary Kitchen volunteer to share her cuisine and meet new people. She believes cooking connects her to other people and forms unbreakable bonds. She says that all of the chefs look out for each other, and she finds a second family at Sanctuary Kitchen. She says that this is her dream job, but she has always had the dream to make her own food and sell it to others.

About Sanctuary Kitchen

Sanctuary Kitchen, a program of CitySeed, partners with immigrant and refugee chefs to build economic opportunity and authentic connections through food. We facilitate refugee and immigrant-led culinary events, such as cooking classes, dinners and other cultural events. Our social enterprise features authentic, multicultural dishes and food products that provide employment and professional development for rising chefs and food entrepreneurs. Our vision is to enhance the culinary skills of refugees and immigrants in a supportive environment that honors story and diverse cultural traditions, fosters community and understanding, offers professional development, and generates economic success in the most delicious way possible. 

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