Derek Sarno served as Executive Chef and Director of Plant-Based Innovation for Tesco plc, the leading UK retailer. With the support of Tesco Derek accelerated plant-based lifestyle adoption across the UK and has been hugely influential in the UK now becoming the world’s no.1 country globally for veganism. Prior to co-founding Wicked Kitchen with his brother Chad, Derek served as Senior Global Executive Chef for Whole Foods Market, in the US and Culinary Director for their Academy for Conscious Leadership. Derek has also founded several award-winning restaurants and food service companies across the US including the One Hundred Club, Mahalo’s Catering, and Mizuna’s.
Our experience comes from a lifetime of working in kitchens, owning restaurants, catering events, teaching cooking classes, and working on veggie farms. We’re now crafting and creating 100% delicious plant-based foods for mainstream markets, leading with taste without compromise.
Chefs, scientists, fashion designers, and craft artisans are embracing mushrooms like never before.
The Wicked Meaty Mushroom! Learn the ways of the Wicked and chef craft mushrooms into everything from meaty shreds, filets, steaks, fillets, cutlets, schnitzels, bacon’ or scallop alternatives. From souvlaki and steak tacos to chicken’ noodle soup, kebabs and BBQ pulled style pork’. You have the power!
Delicious and seriously good for you. We’ll show which mushrooms to buy and how to prepare them in a clear, easy, and fun way. Our signature cooking technique is simple and easy to learn. It’s what has been coined as, 
