“Gather Ingredients grown with love: cook and serve with love.” Leslie Cerier
February 19-26, 2016, I taught 2 hands on organic, vegetarian, farm to table cooking workshops at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA For the first time ever, no one left the room when the workshop was over. We were in the big love bubble of what we created all week. Tad Torzecki, participant in Improvisational Cooking for Health and Vitality (2/21-26/16) gave me the drawing above as a Thank-you.
And Jean Mahoney from Santa Cruz, participant in Delicious Meals in Minutes Fresh From the Esalen Garden Feb 19-21, 2016 wrote and gave me this poem as a Thank-you for my teachings.
“Sweet cacao butter
Rolls warm over my tastebuds
Filling me with
the satisfaction
of what our earth
has to offer
Humans
We harvest & send
golden oils, prized seeds
to one another
We got to open the gifts of other lands
Teff arrives from Ethiopia
& Goat cheese from Sebastopol
Amaranth from the Aztecs
Two continents & more
shared here
on the land
Drawn together by magnets
The sun, the soil, the stars, the moon
All so very generous
In their ability to provide”
I am blessed to teach what I love: When we start with lovingly gathered organic ingredients, mindfully harvested, cooked and presented with love, luscious dining is insured.
One of the nutritious and beautiful meals we cooked with love as part of my hands on cooking workshops at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
