The Passport Journey
The Passport Journey
Desire Treats is not a restaurant. It is not a private chef.
It is a travelling Passport Menu — African, Caribbean, and Latin culture, through high tea, high coffee, food, music, and storytelling.
We come to you. You collect stamps. You taste the world.
Start here — open the Digital Passport Menu: Open the Digital Passport Menu — explore each destination, take the quiz, and collect your gold digital stamps.
What Is The Passport Journey?
You do not order a dish. You take a journey. Each stop is a country, a story, a dessert or a dish, and a gold digital stamp.
- Caribbean — Banana Rum Cake — cream cheese icing, salted caramel
- South Africa — Malva Pudding — gluten-free, rum custard sauce
- Latin America — Tres Leches Cake — cold, strawberries and cream
- Ghana + Jamaica — Ghanaian Jollof Rice with Jamaican Pineapple Jerk Chicken — one dish, together
- Latin America / Mexico — Authentic Chipotle Beef Tacos
- Ethiopia — Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony & Tea
A stamp is earned by completing the cultural experience — the story, the taste, the quiz — not by buying a cake.
Open the Digital Passport Menu: Digital Passport Menu
What Makes It Different?
1. The Passport Menu — no one else has this. A private chef does not give you a passport. A restaurant does not give you stamps.
2. Taste, not just a recipe. Anyone can follow a recipe, the thing is the taste. I learned Ghanaian and Jamaican food at home, Somalian and Ethiopian, and I am learning Puerto Rican, Brazilian, and South African. For the ones I have not learned yet, I bring in a chef from that culture to teach the taste.
3. Music and storytelling, not just food. Afro Beats, Reggae, Reggaeton, Brazilian Funk — songs, stories, and communities getting together, learning from other cultures, heritage and ancestry.
4. We come to you. In your home, at your business, at your event, and in Florida, on a yacht. A travelling pop-up, not a restaurant. Edmonton, now. Orlando, Florida, first cross-border, coming soon.
5. You take it home with you. A 3-flight tea and coffee taster before you buy big bags, and dessert kits so you learn to make it yourself.
The Passport Chef Exchange — We Learn and Grow Together
The Passport Journey is not just for guests. It is for chefs, too.
Other chefs collaborate with each other here, and help each other. You get to come here to Canada, or I come where you are — and we learn and grow together.
- Come to Canada — cook with me in Edmonton, share your food, your story, and your taste, and do a Passport Journey pop-up together.
- I come to you — I travel to where you are, learn in your kitchen, learn how your food should taste, and cook with you there.
- Learn the taste, not just the recipe — anyone can follow a recipe. We teach each other the taste, till we get it right.
- Grow together — we share what we know, we help each other, and we build new Passport destinations together, from your culture, with you.
I believe people will learn more by learning from other cultures and countries than by learning in a culinary school. In a school you learn a recipe. In another country, in another home, in another kitchen, you learn the taste, the story, and the culture behind the food — and that is what stays with you.
If you are a chef, a home cook, or a food maker from another culture and you want to collaborate, come and join The Passport Journey.
Contact us to collaborate: Contact Desire Treats
Book a Pop-Up Event
Book The Passport Journey for your home, your business, or your event. Desire Treats comes to you.
Contact us to book: Contact Desire Treats
With love, intention, and heritage,
Chef Desiree Somers
Founder, Desire Treats