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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