Open your eyes back to nature

[The Great Big Story]

Culinary Artist, James Gop, has dedicated his life to embracing local foods, open fires and the vast beauty of the Berkshire Mountains. Mother Nature, to Gop, is a giant grocery store full of endless possibility. To celebrate the chef’s refreshing take on what it means to be an artist/explorer/chef in today’s world, Coors Light is enabling James’ next masterpiece: a sumptuous feast that showcases his top dishes, using hand-picked ingredients from the surrounding flora and fauna.

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Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video

• Walk around in the woods
• Curious nature
• Culinary artist
• More often than not
• Later this week
• Building a menu
• Native species
• The growing seasons are short
• He never stops
• It’s very inspiring
• Continue to be better
• My artistic expression
• A seventeen-hour day
• Sauté them in a lot of butter and a lot of salt
• Little red berries
• To forever change your lives today
• Being here, present
• Weeds and grasses
• An edible grocery store
• Exposing them to something they’ve never seen
• Foraged pine bark
• Whole-wheat flour
• Making time
• Be part of this experience
• Open your eyes back to nature
• Giving us the opportunity to tell our story

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Farm to Fork

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Vocabulary to learn after watching the video :

• He has set up a self sustainable farm
• I try to find a lot of hippie chefs
• With two restaurants on the property and a lodge
• How is it going?
• Beautiful surroundings
• I know everything that’s happened to these plants from day one
• We are not certified yet
• When I first came here as a customer
• I was just blown away
• One of the best days in my life
• I planted strawberries
• Pick strawberries
• We pick in the morning, because everything has more flavor in the morning
• A veggie patch
• You don’t need to stock pile
• I think the whole concept is awesome
• One of the newest dishes on the menu
• A side salad
• It’s good, it’s tasty, it’s fresh
• Caring so much about what they’re doing
• Congratulations, I wish you all the best for the future 

Jovi explores the Hunter Valley in Australia  and talks to an amazing chef George Francisco. George has a unique approach to sustainability and the restaurant game. [foraged]

Read more about Farm to Fork Dining @ Peppers Covent Hunter Valley    Talk & Spoon

Jovi explores the Hunter Valley and talks to an amazing chef George Francisco. Who has a unique approach to sustainability and the restaurant game!