Ecocenter guests have the opportunity to try delicious and healthy dishes made from plant ingredients, prepared by chefs whom we invite to our space.

Plant-based nutrition is like veganism minus fanaticism and plus tolerance. Therefore, if you really want Carpathian dairy products, you can easily buy them from our neighbors and consume them in the ecocenter. Exceptions are meat products and fish, which are prohibited for consumption on Tepla Gora.

Food Lab

We call our kitchen the ‘Kitchen of the Giants’. And our giants are great historical figures who ate vegetarian or plant-based food. Like Mahatma Gandhi, Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, Leonardo da Vinci.

‘The Kitchen of the Giants’ is a food lab, or a research project that provokes questions in the team and our guests - which way of eating is the most humane for animals, caring for the planet and healthy for humans. And thus helps to reevaluate our way of eating according to these criteria.

The evolution of humanity

We are convinced that caring for animals and the planet is a new stage in the development of human consciousness and our humanity. The word humanity, by the way, means "having or showing sympathy or benevolence" (Oxford Dictionary). Slavery, hard child labor and the restriction of women's rights were once as common as the exploitation and killing of animals and the clearing of forests for fields to grow animal feed (not to mention soil erosion, the pollution of water bodies by chemical fertilizers and the excessive use of water in livestock farming). But the evolution of consciousness continues and very soon 🤞 the abuse of animals and the planet will be just as unacceptable as the things mentioned above.

Healthy food

As far as health is concerned, we do not claim that a plant-based diet is the best for humans. Instead, at Giants' Kitchen we are looking for practical solutions to make it so.

We believe that healthy food exists only when there is healthy physical activity, healthy sleep, clean air and water, a favourite activity, restorative rest, and most importantly, close people and an unbreakable faith in something higher than the blue sky.

We are convinced that staying at Tepla Gora and eating plant-based food during your visit will bring you pleasure, balance and inspiration. It will improve your health.

Song

A song that we often sing at Tepla Gora after meals:

“Дякуєм за їжу, дякуєм за їжу, дякуєм за ї-жу, дякуєм за їжу. Смачно - корисно і щастя дару-є, смачно - корисно і щастя дару-є.”

"Thank you for the food, thank you for the food, thank you for the food, thank you for the food. Delicious - useful and brings happiness, delicious - useful and brings happiness.”