Guest Chef Venerable Yeogeo

Ven. Yeogeo is a Korean Buddhist nun and a renowned expert in temple food, currently residing at Geungnaksa Temple in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. She has been officially designated as a Temple Food Artisan by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Since her ordination, she has devoted herself to the practice of temple food under the guidance of monks and nuns with deep knowledge of Buddhist culinary traditions.

To help people engage with temple food in a more approachable and relatable way, she actively offers lectures and workshops at various institutions. Through her teaching, she conveys the values of mindfulness found in both the preparation and the act of eating food. In the spirit of self-sufficiency, she also grows her own ingredients through farming.

Ven. Yeogeo is also active internationally. In 2018, she gave a lecture on temple food in Hong Kong and later led an online Korean-Myanmar temple food education programme. In 2022, she participated in the “Taste of Paris” event in France, where she introduced temple food through tasting sessions and gave special lectures to high school students in Nantes. In Japan, she has deepened cultural exchange by offering temple food tasting events and lectures.

Currently, she continues to teach temple food at various institutions across Korea, sharing the meditative and spiritual values embedded in traditional temple food.