Cooking Classes, 2 new hands on organic, vegetarian, gluten free, cooking classes in February in person and on Zoom and read my Origin Story: How I Became The Organic Gourmet.
I’m super excited to be teaching a brunch class in honor of Tu B Shevat, thanks to a generous grant from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
Sunday FEBRUARY 9 @ 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM,
Hands on BRUNCH COOKING CLASS, CELEBRATING THE TREES, Tu b’ Shevat
Come and learn to make the most scrumptious, organic, quick and easy, gluten free waffles with the local organic chestnut flour and local organic hickory nut oil. Also, I’ll be showing how to make my infamous, hot cacao and offering other organic free fruits and nuts.
Sunday, FEBRUARY 23 @ 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
HANDS ON COOKING FOR HEALTH & HAPPINESS
In this hands-on vegetarian cooking class, I present whole foods that are not just good for you, but also pleasurable and delicious.
Come cook and feast on exciting vegetarian dishes that will enhance your immune system, give you energy, rejuvenate your senses, keep your bones strong, and help you maintain an active lifestyle.
I hope you’ll join me and please pass the word. www.lesliecerier.com/classes
Email leslie@lesliecerier.com for more info and to register.
Please let me know if you have any food allergies.
Last, but not least, please read my origin story, here is a taste:
” How I Became The Organic Gourmet”
As a young girl, I loved to cook and eat.
And when my grandma Ethel was getting on in her years, and I was in my 20’s, I asked her to teach me how to make her strudel dough. She showed me and said, “you take some flour and water and it should look like this.” I said, “grandma how much flour and water?” She repeated in her yiddish accent, “you take some flour and water and it should look like this and if it doesn’t; you throw it away, and start over.”
She taught me to engage my senses. Trust my intuition. Now cooking from scratch felt like play, an exploration of seeing colors, tastingtextures of foods; smelling herbs and spices before adding them to a dish to ask myself does that lift my spirit? Enhance my mood? This new relationship with the ingredients led to networking with local farmers that grew my food.
And like Grandma, I can whip up a batch of pancakes and waffles without measuring just by looking at the texture of the batter.
A few years later, in the late 70s, I moved to Richmond, Kentucky. Fresh with my masters degree in Movement Sciences and Education, from Columbia University, I got a university teaching position teaching sports, creative dance and recreation.
Then, at a new faculty meet and greet I met Jo, who coincidentally shared my birthday and we became instant friends. Jo brought me to my first health food store in Berea. There, I saw beans and whole grains for the first time.
Being a college teacher, I had 2-3 hour breaks between teaching classes. This gave me time to drive back and forth to the health food store. Quiz the owners, “What is this bean and grain and how do you cook it.”
There were no vegetarian, natural food cookbooks back then.
With excited curiosity, every week I would return to the store. Talk to the owner, and buy a new ingredient…

REGISTER NOW FOR FEBRUARY HANDS ON COOKING CLASSES: Feb 9, 11AM-2PM
Brunch Class Celebrating the Trees, Tu B’ Shevat
Feb 23; 11AM-2PM EST
Hands on Cooking for Health and Happiness
Register Now EMAIL LESLIE: LESLIE@LESLIECERIER.COM

“… GETTING HEALTHY, LESLIE CERIER IS YOUR GUIDE,” DR MARK HYMAN
Hey, if you are in the Amherst, MA area, and need a personal chef for that special occasion or need delicious food as medicine, please contact me.
And if you are looking for hands on organic farm to table cooking classes for your health and vitality, please contact me.
Want a Gourmet Getaway Retreat immersed in nature, that incorporates a nourishing environment with the art of self care, gourmet vegetarian, organic farm to table meals, and “loving kindness” hands on cooking classes.
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