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Cooking Demo With Chef Duane: Three Tasty CKD & PKD Friendly Recipes
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About This Event
Cooking Demo With Chef Duane: Three Tasty CKD & PKD Friendly Recipes
Background
The NephChef, featuring Chef Duane Sunwold, shows viewers how to create three delicious kidney friendly recipes. Chef Duane’s own journey with chronic kidney disease (CKD) provided motivation for him to explore palatable and healthy recipes. These three recipes are appropriate for patients in all CKD stages as well as polycystic kidney disease (PKD).
Did You Know?
Adopting a kidney healthy diet can help delay CKD and PKD progression and improve outcomes.
Why Attend This Webinar?
Empowering kidney disease patients to make informed decisions on healthy kidney food choices is key for improved outcomes. We hope that after tuning in you and your patients will find it easier to adopt and sustain a kidney friendly diet.
What You Will Learn
Recipes and cooking demonstration for:
- Fresh Plum Compote
- Curried Chicken, Rice, and Pineapple Salad
- Rice Milk Sorbet
Featuring

Duane Sunwold
Culinary Arts Faculty, Chef & Cooking Demonstrator*
Known as “Chef Duane”, Mr Sunwold is a graduate from the Culinary Arts Program at Spokane Community College where he is now a culinary arts instructor. He has been nominated twice into the Who’s Who of Community College Teacher by his students. Duane has cooked from country clubs to private resorts in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Bill Gates’ family had Duane personally cater a private meal for one of their family celebrations. He has also been a guest chef, preparing meals for the athletes at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988.
Duane was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2000. After 18 months of treatment, Duane changed his diet and started seeing significant improvements in his health. Today, Duane has been able to put his kidney disease into remission with the guidance of his medical team and his dietary changes. Because of these results, Duane volunteers for the National Kidney Foundation. His work includes being a past chairman and current member of the Patient Family Council, speaking before congressman in the Capital Building about kidney disease and health care reform, peer to peer mentoring with other kidney patients and is the chef for the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Kitchen.
*Duane Sunwold is a paid consultant of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC).