Kitchen In The Wild
FAR-FLUNG ADVENTURES FOR THE CULINARY CURIOUS
Kitchen In The Wild is a series of hosted culinary events, taking place around the globe in wild and remote settings. Each event sees a small number of guests come together for five nights alongside respected chefs, artists and thinkers and bonds are created over the communal table.
Kitchen In The Wild invites guest chefs to cook from the surrounding natural larder, resulting in collaborative cooking that combines their influences with ingredients perhaps less known to them. Artists and makers teach guests their craft, drawing inspiration from the immediate landscape and wildlife. These analogue adventures champion expertise and learning as the new luxury.
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Kitchen In The Wild - El Karama Lodge - Kenya
With a frisson of danger, prolific game wandering the savannah, and a way of life that’s a considerable far cry from the pampered western day to day, the dramatic landscapes of Laikipia, Kenya certainly offer up the visceral beauty and analogue setting that we seek. It is a land of adventure and stories while offering a myriad of activities and stunning open spaces as yet untarnished by modern sprawl.
El Karama Lodge and Wildlife Conservancy, in the foothills of Mt Kenya, with its open bush, rolling plains, winding river and stunning views is breathtaking. Valentine Warner was drawn to the Lodge’s self-sufficiency, its sustainable approach to cooking, its dairy farm and vegetable gardens, its artistic community and the passion and vision of its owners.
Incredible night skies are filled with the noises of nocturnal nature, the days hearing only the breeze and birdsong. This is the most fabulous place any guest could come to eat, make and reset. So come and be looked after in this untamed Eden.
Kitchen In the Wild - Event Details
El Karama, Laikipia, Kenya
With Valentine Warner and guest chef Jackson Boxer
17-22nd October 2025
$12,000 per head
Prolific London chef and restaurateur Jackson has somewhat of a cult following. Opening a 10 seat counter at Brunswick House at just 23 years old, he now splits his time between Notting Hill’s Orasay, the much grown and loved Brunswick, Cowley Manor, Jackson Boxer at The Corner and most recently to open, Henri in Covent Garden.
Jackson is a talented and instinctual cook, full of natural and creative flair. Give him an ingredient and a myriad of tasty ideas will pour forth. His sleight of hand is just as happy near glowing embers as kitchen gadgets making him a highly adaptable chef so suited for Kenya. He’s great company too.
Jackson joins host and chef Valentine Warner, bartender extraordinaire Nick Strangeway and internationally acclaimed animator and model maker Jim Parkyn (whose creations include Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep for Aardman Animations). Also joining the group will be a handful of experts from Laikipia, whose skills include wildlife and birds, foraging and conservation.
TO BOOK CONTACT: africa@sophiarosetravel.com