My career is not out of the book, but always focused on life and the joy of the vegan, organic and way of cooking. Born into an italia catering family, I discovered the stove and the kitchen as the best playground very early in my life.
An early experience at an arabian meat market confirmed what I already knew. I don't want and don't need to eat animals. Excursions on animal rights movements, the hardcore underground music scene and political activities brought me to India and opened up the world of meditation. Instead of an apprenticeship - which did not exist in Germany as a vegan - I bought plane tickets to study in places on planet earth where the knowledge that was a necessity to me was common knowledge.
Extensive training in Chi Kung and meditation shaped my cooking style, which I already practiced as a 19-year-old head chef in a meditation center. Long journeys across Southeast Asia, Australia and even Hawaii invited me to learn to surf and to devote myself to the element of water, always moving, always changing. That trained me on a completely different level. The cooking stayed and remains. I find the vegan cooking style to be the cleanest, most efficient and tastiest cuisine that I keep rediscovering and developing - indispensable.
I have explored all continents on earth, completed internships in American noble vegan restaurants, learned temple food in Asia, traveled Africa on a vegan diet and traveled Europe in search of new plant-based ingredients that I could bring home. My kitchen is a journey, east meets west and the whole world meets on the plate.
My greatest love, my wife Judith and our daughter Sophia, enrich my life and keep me in shape. You are the center of my life. My goal, my joy, my love.
Our new book will be published in german, by AT-Verlag at the end of January, with PAN and pictures by Oliver Brachat
Vegan chef and successful cookbook author, founder of Surdhams Kitchen, ran various restaurants in Munich. Supporting member and cook of the association »Medizin und Menschlichkeit e. V. « and lecturer on certified classes by the Bavarian Medical Association of the Physicians Association for Nutrition e.V. (PAN).
Co-founder of the Physicians Association for Nutrition e.V. (PAN), medical student. Deals with nutrition as a means of increasing well-being and performance as well as for the prevention and therapy of diseases. Seminars and lectures on the subject of nutrition in medicine.
The greatest health threats of our time are chronic diseases, future pandemics and climate change. All three are significantly influenced by our diet. With every meal we can choose for or against health, our own health and that of the planet. The well-known vegan cook Surdham Göb and the nutritionist Cirus Henn have turned medical knowledge into a cookbook with wholesome plant-based recipes. Cooking in a contemporary, sustainable and future-save way, but uncomplicated and with a lot of pleasure - that is the motto. The ingredients are easy to get, colorful and varied. The recipe photos make it clear: It's not about giving up and dieting, but about using the power of nutrition with relish. Use your culinary skills to influence how the world will look in the future! With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Claus Leitzmann.
With our Surdham's Kitchen channel I try to bring you closer to my passion for vegan cooking. I don't just show you great recipes! With a lot of tips and tricks I will help you to have simple and at the same time great taste experiences.
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Testimonials
“To eat a meal prepared by a master vegan chef, Surdham is to awaken not only your sense of tongue and sense of taste but to awaken the I innate compassion, delight and joy of your heart.” - Sharon Gannon, founder of the Jivamukti Yoga
Surdham Goeb is one of the most talented and kind hearted vegan chefs I have encountered in my 25 years in the plant-based culinary world. Anything he creates is top-notch!
Chef Mark Reinfeld, Award-winning Author and Founding Chef, Vegan Fusion Culinary Academy
Wir waren beide keine wirklichen Kochfans. Bis Surdham in unserer Küche auftauchte, mit einem breiten Grinsen im Gesicht, vielen gesunden Zutaten und seitdem ist alles anders. Ich kenne keinen Menschen, der so leckere vegane Gerichte zaubert und gleichzeitig so viel Enthusiasmus und Freude dabei verbreitet. Von Surdham kann man nicht nur das Kochen lernen, sondern auch die Begeisterung dafür!
Surdham ist für mein ein Ausnahmetalent in Sachen veganer Kulinarik und ich schätze seine Arbeit über alle Maßen
Niko Rittenau, Ernährungswissenschafter, Autor