Food & lifestyle bloggers are all ears as Lucas Glanville, executive chef at Grand Hyatt Singapore, gives pointers on gourmet cuisine with sustainable seafood.
Photo from WWF Singapore
Photos by Chong Yap, unless otherwise indicated
As we pursue modern lifestyles, we use 50% more natural resources than is environmentally sustainable. We are cutting trees faster than they grow, putting waste into the environment quicker than they are recycled and emptying ocean waters of marine life quicker than seafood is reproduced.
Food critic Chong Yap of Make Your Calories Count recently attended a sustainable seafood cooking class organized by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore.
In conjunction with "World Oceans Day" on 8 June 2014, WWF-Singapore is partnering Marine Stewardship Council ("MSC") and Aquaculture Stewardship Council ("ASC") to launch the Sustainable Seafood Festival ("SSF"), a first of its kind in Singapore which runs for a week from 8 - 15 June 2014!
This campaign encourages people to eat seafood from the right sources.
We were more than privileged to be invited to a cooking workshop where we learnt more about whipping up sumptuous dishes with sustainable seafood under the guidance of Chef Lucas Glanville, Executive Chef of Grand Hyatt Singapore.
With more than 28 years of culinary experience, Lucas has been sharpening his knives at restaurants such as Mayfair's Le Gavroche in UK and The Point on Albert Park Lake in Australia.
We have always been huge fans of reality cooking TV shows such as Masterchef Australia and we were really excited when we finally settled at our work station!
Preparing our tom yum broth!
Pan-frying the salmon steaks.
For 3 gourmet recipes by Chef Lucas, click here.
Chef Lucas slicing the fennel with complete ease without even looking!
We can make a difference by embarking on sensible choices and start by choosing sustainable seafood in your grocery shopping!
You may wish to download this printable guide or check out the online interactive guide which categorises the types of common seafood.
Please help to spread the word to make sure that everyone can do a small part for the environment!
P.S: Special thanks to Chenyze and WWF Singapore for the invitation!
