In the first place, there is the School of Natural Cookery. The institute presents individuals with the prospect of becoming an expert, to turn out to be a good cook at home, or to attend specialization classes.

The philosophy of this school is to blend vegetarian cooking in a distinctive way, with the intention that individuals need not have to commit recipes to memory. On the other hand, individuals pick up cooking spontaneously, using whichever ingredients are at hand. This is referred to as the Language of Cooking.

Persons interested in becoming expert vegetarian chefs need to take classes comprising of four levels. These levels include an elementary course followed by a private chef course, and then a teacher's training course, and finally a mastering vegetarian pastry course.

In the case of the home cooks, they are eligible only for the Language of Cooking course. Now, this is completed in three sections, a section for knife skills, and an intensive course section. Classes held for specialization students are restricted. The specialization classes cover living foods, inside out cooking, and carving and decorating of vegetables and fruits.

The next vegetarian cooking institute is the Natural Gourmet Institute. The institute presents training programs for cooks as well as holds classes for the public. The cook's training program is intended to enable individuals to get to know food better since it has a beneficial effect on your health.

The institute encourages individuals to do this by equipping them with the requisite cooking abilities, together with information that helps one settle for healthy food. This training program provides individuals the chance to try their luck in many areas such as health resorts, bakeries, restaurants, catering, private cooking, teaching, food writing, and consulting. The tuition fees for the cook's training program for the complete module are about $18,850.

With regard to the public classes conducted by the Natural Gourmet Institute, it too, stresses the very same philosophy of being more conscious of food that has a positive impact on health.

They achieve this by making available a diversity of specialization classes starting from food specific classes to age specific classes, together with the classes on dessert and pastry making. They also present cookery exhibitions, conduct guest lectures, and organize cooking retreats.

Compassionate Cooks is the last vegetarian cooking institute to be reviewed. This institute provides one with the prospect of discovering how to make the right food choices based on the information available, and canning the mythical story about animal rights and vegetarianism.

This institute provides courses, essays, DVDs, articles, workshops, pod casts, and lectures. The institute makes available one-time classes, individual classes, plus, class packages. The registration fee for the exclusive one time contact class at the institute is $45. The Compassionate Cooks' class package comprises of three classes for which, a tuition fee of $130 is charged, in addition to a $3 fee for food for every class. They present a diverse range of recipes and dissertations to enable individuals to become more attuned to the vegetarian way of life.