The cooking lab under the Millet Revival Project will be engaged in exploring, sourcing, and documenting different methods of cooking millets and millet-based recipes. The primary outcome of these engagements will be recipes on The Locavore and MRP website, the Millet Cookbook, and a Know Your Millets section on The Locavore & MRP website. These recipes will also be used for events and other engagements and collaborations that will showcase the work of the project to a broader audience.
Cooking Lab Lead
Employment Type: Part Time
Location: Candidate should ideally be based in Mumbai, but might be required to travel to other cities for short durations.
Open Positions: 1
Duration of Engagement: 12 months
Salary: 20,000/month
About the Role
As the Lead Chef Volunteer, your culinary expertise will contribute to the exploration of millets’ culinary potential and promote its nutritional and sustainable benefits. You will oversee recipe development and testing, and inspire a team of culinary enthusiasts.
Your responsibilities will include leading the creation and development of a wide range of millet-based recipes that showcase the versatility and culinary appeal of millets, ranging from traditional recipes, to newer dishes, while maintaining their nutritional benefits as well as their accessibility to an everyday consumer. You will also conduct recipe testing to ensure precision in measurements, and documenting the process.
As a lead chef, you will provide guidance to the team of culinary volunteers. This will involve evaluating prepared dishes, and offering detailed feedback on taste, texture, visual appeal, and overall quality. You will keep track of the team’s progress, discussing and mitigating their challenges as they arise, and mapping the strategy for the team moving forward.
Through your assistance in organizing workshops, culinary events, and community engagement, we will work to raise awareness about millet and its culinary applications. Our Cooking Lab Lead ideally holds a culinary degree or has formal culinary education with substantial professional cooking experience. The Lead should also demonstrate leadership experience, including mentoring and guiding culinary teams or volunteers. Your openness to experiment, willingness to adapt recipes based on feedback, and ability to effectively communicate with multiple teams while streamlining the efforts of your own team will be crucial to the success of the Millet Revival Project.
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Cooking Lab Chef Volunteers
Employment Type: Part Time
Location: Candidate should ideally be based in India.
Open Positions: 6
Duration of Engagement: 4 month engagement which may be extended contingent on performance and participation
Stipend: 2,000/month
About the Role
As a chef volunteer for the cooking lab, you will play a crucial role in developing and refining millet-based recipes, testing their feasibility, and contributing to culinary knowledge surrounding millets.
Your knowledge of innovative culinary techniques and research skills will allow us to develop millet-based recipes that showcase the versatility, taste, and nutritional benefits of millet, as well as document traditional millet-based recipes. You will have to plan and execute recipe testing sessions in your kitchen, ensuring that you document accurate measurements and share your insights and learnings with the team on the weekly update calls.
You will test recipes prepared by fellow team members, evaluating their dishes and providing detailed feedback on taste, texture, appearance, and overall quality. Your attention to detail, organizational skills, and effective record-keeping will contribute to the development of a millet cookbook and recipes on our digital platforms.
You will also assist in organizing workshops, demonstrations, and community events to promote millet consumption and their nutritional value. As a part of the project, we aim to hold events in multiple cities across the country, and would need your assistance if organizing an event in your city.
While culinary training or formal culinary education is preferred, it is not mandatory. So even if you are a home chef, you are welcome to join our team, as long as you are passionate about cooking and exploring new ingredients. Your love for cooking sustainably and experimenting with food practices will help us realize our goal of promoting easy and exciting millet cooking!
To learn more about our work, click here.
To apply for this position, fill out this form.
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