Host of Wild Kitchen and Vancouver Island-based chef, culinary educator, and food & lifestyle photographer — blending culinary artistry with storytelling across multiple mediums.
From the kitchen to the lens to the studio — every venture is driven by one belief: food is the greatest adventure life has to offer.
Where culinary craft meets wild adventure. A content series exploring food in its most raw, adventurous, and inspiring forms.
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Where an ancient craft meets a modern kitchen. Learn to bake sourdough with community, confidence, and a bit of flour on your hands.
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A visual journey through food, people, and the moments in between — shot with the same precision I bring to the kitchen.
Visit Gallery →Desh Fernando is a chef, forager, and filmmaker based on Vancouver Island. Trained at George Brown College, he spent twelve years as a documentary filmmaker and photographer before coming to the kitchen full-time — and the two worlds have never really separated.
He currently cooks at Deep Cove Winery on the Saanich Peninsula, where he runs a documented fermentation program — tepache, black garlic, foraged blackberries and plums, ginger sodas, and wine grapes bound for wine ice cream — carrying wild and local flavours past their season. Previously he cooked at Roar in Tofino, one of BC's few live-fire, open-kitchen restaurants.
Fire runs through everything. His fourteen-episode wild-cooking series, Wild Kitchen, was built almost entirely on foraged ingredients that met the flame before they met the plate. He teaches sourdough and fresh pasta, has cooked a number of chef's tables, and is building toward a coast-to-coast Canadian culinary project rooted in the same fire-and-forage philosophy.
Where culinary craft meets untamed adventure. The Wild Kitchen Show follows Chef Desh into the wild — cooking, exploring, and bringing food stories to life on screen.
It all began when Desh baked his first sourdough loaf in his condo — hooked by the taste, smell, and texture. A neighbour's simple suggestion turned into a workshop, and a community was born.
Desh Fernando is a phenomenal teacher and makes learning an ancient art fun and educational while helping build confidence in the process. $25 is really a bargain for all that you get — he's right there with you in your kitchen!
Whether you're looking to book a workshop, collaborate on a shoot, or bring the Wild Kitchen Show to your event — Desh would love to hear from you.
