Chef Chris Sayegh Wants You To Experience The ‘High’ Life

If the words stuff, stash or even maal, give you sense of notorious excitement, then this news from Chef Chris Sayegh’s kitchen will send you running to Los Angeles.

It is not unknown that California has been welcome to the medical usage of marijuana since 1996. But adding a new twist to this is Chef Sayegh.

The culinary expert is planning to take haute cuisine a notch higher (pun intended) by introducing cannabis-infused menus to people. He will provides these menus in private homes for as much as $500 a head, or in ‘pop-up’ banquets around Los Angeles for $20 to $200 a person. For now, diners must present their medical marijuana cards before being served.

A Whole New World

The immensely experienced 23-year-old chef believes that by adding marijuana to his recipes creates an all-new level of consciousness for diners. So sensitive that it goes beyond the effects of fine wine.

‘To me, this is a cerebral experience,” Sayegh said during a demonstration at his Hollywood apartment last week.

“You’re eating with a different perception with each bite, with each course. You’re literally changing your brain chemistry and you are viewing this food differently than you did five minutes ago, 10 minutes ago”, he explained.

It All Started With Brownies

Although, the market has previously witnessed edible marijuana products, this concept of blending fine dine with the plat is revolutionary. Of course, it all started with brownies.

“It really wasn’t until I started to break it down into a science that I realized that cooking with cannabis … was much, much different than baking with it,” he said.

“You’ll never taste the cannabis in my cooking unless I specifically want you to taste it because it’s not a pleasant taste. … It throws off the whole flavor of the dish,” Sayegh said explaining that for cooking he uses an oil, which contains an extract of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of cannabis, and a ‘vaporizer’ to infuse ingredients with THC.