The Society Culinary Academy

Academy

The Society Culinary's paid school, led by chef Luis Lobato Giménez: digital collections, courses and, later on, a members' community. Plus training and licences for schools and businesses.

Start for free

Two complete Academy courses to start without paying anything.

100% free

The Botanical Codex

From seed to sustainable haute cuisine: botany and fine dining in practical and theory modules. In Spanish.

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100% free

Botanical Alchemy

Sustainable and medicinal avant-garde cooking in 25 recipes, with the basics of phytochemistry and ethical foraging. In Spanish.

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Botanical cooking

Gastrobotany, from the fundamentals to practice.

€29

Introduction to gastrobotany

The Academy's teaching material, revised and turned into a learning path of its own.

With equipment

Get more out of what is already in your kitchen.

Coming soon

The air fryer class

Recipes you assemble on their outline, without measuring, that work in any air fryer.

Coming soon

Vegetables sous vide

Temperatures and times so every vegetable concentrates its flavour.

Avant-garde

The Gastro Botanical techniques, one by one.

Coming soon

Spherification

Direct and reverse, from small pearls to large spheres.

Coming soon

Gels and textures

Agar, gellan and serving temperature.

Gastro Botanical

First collection

Gastro Botanical

Cooking with flowers, leaves or roots is not a decorative act. It is an exercise in listening.

  1. IFirst contacts: roots and submerged textures
  2. IIThe aerial realm: foams and elevated aromas
  3. IIIThe skin of the earth: crisps and mineral veils
  4. IVThe chromatic burst: caviar and botanical pigments

€14.90

Gastro Botanical · Extended edition. Tested recipes, techniques, ingredient sheets and extra material. With a free sample to start. In Spanish first.

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Members Later

€5.90 / month

We will open it once there is enough content to make it worth it every month.

  • Full technique library
  • New collections
  • Classes and structured training
  • Advanced AI tools

Schools and businesses

Licensed teaching materials, training for kitchen teams and content for hospitality schools, training centres and equipment makers. Every proposal is made to measure.

  • Hospitality schools and training centres
  • Restaurants and kitchen teams
  • Equipment makers