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LOCAL CHEF PUTS CANNABIS SPIN ON CULINARY SOIREES
Jennifer Felmely of Chef Jenn Cook
Photos courtesy of Chef Jenn Cooks
Burnt-orange caramel sauce applied to dessert
By Frank Sabatini Jr. Armed with a Bachelor of Science degree in Culinary Arts and another in Culinary Nutrition, the one cooking trick Jennifer Felmley didn’t learn at Johnson & Wales University was how to infuse cannabis into her dishes. The North Park-based chef and cookbook author runs a successful business called Chef Jenn Cooks, which offers “cannabis experiences.” She also holds cooking classes (in person and virtual) and provides private chef services to clients all over San Diego County, from Rancho Santa Fe and Coronado to Oceanside and San Ysidro. Additionally, her fanfare extends well beyond our region because of live cooking sessions she conducts for free at 4 p.m. every Sunday on Instagram under the name @chefjenncooks. Felmley has mastered the art of combining cannabis and culinary all on her own ever since marijuana and its slew of extracted products became legal for recreational use in California in 2018. As a result, she landed a contestant spot earlier this year on Food Network’s “Chopped 420” series, which is the cannabis version of the long-running show, Chopped. She didn’t win, but gained valuable national exposure as an authority on the subject. Felmley’s cannabis Jell-O brains made recently for an Instagram cooking session LOCAL NEWS | LocalUmbrellaNews.com
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