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HANDS-ON Organic Vegetarian cooking classes

2009-2010

"First, let me take a moment to thank you for teaching your classes at the Natural Gourmet last week (September 2008). They were well received. I really enjoyed sitting in and listening to you. You have a nice and easy way about you and are generous with your information. I heard your "Wild" book sold well."

Judith Friedman, Director of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health


"I have had the opportunity to teach green and gluten free workshops with Leslie Cerier in the kitchen at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. And it is a wild and exciting adventure as she works her culinary magic, sharing her creative genius with each enchanting, earth-friendly recipe that inspires us to cook green and gluten-free."
2010 -Kathie Madonna Swift MS RD LDN

CLASS DATE & FEES INSTRUCTOR

From the Field to the Table

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Week of September 19-24, 2010

Location is Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA

Click Here to register or call 831-667-3005 or

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Leslie Cerier

Festive Holiday Cooking for Cancer Survivors and their Loved Ones

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Date is November 21st 3-7PM

Location is Shutesbury, MA

To register please contact Pam Roberts, Program Director, Forest Moon, 413.625.2402 or email Pam at pamro@aol.com

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Leslie Cerier

Leslie is available for private classes, too.

Gift certificates are always available!

For directions, please call 413-259-1695, or email Leslie.


From the Field to the Table

Location is Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
Week of September 19-24, 2010

Click Here to register or call 831-667-3005 or

Click Here to email Leslie for more information

Have you ever wanted to know how to make the tastiest and most nutritious meals with fresh-picked garden produce? This delicious and illuminating workshop combines organic gardening with organic gourmet cooking and feasting. Join vegetarian chef, cooking teacher, and cookbook author, Leslie Cerier, and Esalen farm and garden manager an passionate sustainable farmer and gardener, Shirley Ward, for a fun and informative hands-on cooking and gardening experience.

Monday through Thursday, we will start in the garden, and harvest crops for our lunch. Shirley will show us the best in hands-on harvest techniques, crop varieties grown in Big Sur's coastal environment, propagation (seed starting) and planting methods, irrigation, soil building, composting, cultivation, and the benefits of companion planting: combining produce with flowers and herbs.

Back in the Big House kitchen, Leslie will teach you how to mix and match our freshly harvested produce and herbs with whole grains, beans, local goat cheeses, and more, as we cook our lunch from scratch with gratitude for the Esalen farm and garden.

Leslie will show you how to cook like an artist, design and prepare colorful meals, create global flavors from the fresh herbs and spices, and compose dishes using contrasting shapes and textures. Eat like kings and queens while deepening your connection to the land and lessening your carbon footprint.

Recommended reading: Cerier, Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook, A Seasonal Vegetarian Cookbook, and Going Wild in the Kitchen.

($50 ingredient fee paid directly to the leaders)


Festive Holiday Cooking for Cancer Survivors and their Loved Ones

Location is Shutesbury, MA
Date is Nov ember 21st 3-7PM

To register please contact Pam Roberts, Program Director, Forest Moon, 413.625.2402 or email Pam at pamro@aol.com or

Click Here to email Leslie for more information

Come feast and get inspired! With a focus on nutrition and cancer, eating with the seasons and locally, we will prepare an organic vegetarian holiday dinner; then enjoy it together.

Cost: Free

This workshop is a program of Forest Moon: Celebrating Survivorship (www.forestmoon.org) and is open to people living with a cancer diagnosis and an accompanying loved one. Registration required.


Leslie is available for private classes, too.

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