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| | | 11 Close Regional Italian Cooking: Cioppino
Wednesday, July 11 
Westside Santa Cruz
Regional Italian Cooking: CioppinoFood & Drink
6:00pm - 8:30pm
$45.00 With WEST Certified Kristen Valenza, Living Roots Food & Floral
Enjoy the best of The Bay with local crab, salmon, shrimp, mussels, and clams, in a wonderful stew-based broth. Kristen will teach you how to make this traditional stew in a step-by-step process in this interactive hands-on cooking class.
Cioppino originated in San Francisco in the late 1800's by Italian immigrants who moved to the North Beach area. The name of the dish comes from ciuppin which is the name of a classic soup from the Italian region Liguria, similar in flavor to cioppino but with less tomato and different types of seafood.
This classic American-Italian dish will be served with fresh garlic bead, and paired with an Italian wine.
About the Instructor:
Kristen grew up in New Jersey where she began cooking with her family at a young age, learning the roots of Italian and Mediterranean cooking. Kristen found a passion for traveling and experiencing other cultures through food, wine, and good company. She brought her expertise to Santa Cruz, where she teaches cooking classes and offers high quality catering through her business Living Roots Food and Floral. Sign Up For Event
| 12 CloseYour Blue Zone Kitchen: How To Cook Like the World’s Healthiest People
Thursday, July 12
Westside Santa Cruz
Your Blue Zone Kitchen: How To Cook Like the World’s Healthiest PeopleFood & Drink
6:00pm - 8:30pm
$199.00 With Nutritionist and Chef Jenny Brewer
Join Chef Jenny in this 3-day cooking series to learn how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the Blue Zones—those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people.
In this three-class series, we’ll prepare delicious recipes from each blue zone, including Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Ikaria, Greece. You’ll also be inspired by stories of the people, foods, and routines of healthy elders and understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play in improving our diet and health. And you’ll discover the exact foods that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health and how to transform your kitchen into a mini blue zone.
This class will be primarily vegetarian, with some use of fish, eggs and dairy. In those cases, there will be a vegan option.
Class meets Thursdays, July 12 through July 26, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
July 12: Overview and Okinawa, Japan
July 19: Sardinia, Italy and Ikaria, Greece
July 26: Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Price includes a glass of red wine (Hey-it’s Blue Zone Approved!)
Series ticket price covers all three days.
About the Instructor:
Jenny Brewer is a nutritionist and natural foods chef who believes healthy food should be fun and flavorful. She's a graduate of the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City, has a Masters Degree in Nutrition and is a Certified Nutrition Specialist.
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| | 17 CloseMovie Night: Forks Over Knives
Tuesday, July 17
Westside Santa Cruz
Movie Night: Forks Over KnivesFilm, Media & Entertainment
6:00pm - 8:00pm
 Forks Over Knives (2011) is an film that examines a profound claim that food is medicine! The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and their groundbreaking studies that brought them to meet each other.
Their research led them separately to the startling and now shared conclusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several forms of cancer, could almost always be prevented—and in many cases reversed—by adopting a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Despite the profound implications of their findings, their work has remained relatively unknown to the public... until now.
The filmmakers travel with Drs. Campbell and Esselstyn on their separate but similar paths, from their childhood farms where they both produced “nature’s perfect food”; to China and Cleveland, where they explored ideas that challenged the established thinking and shook their own core beliefs.
The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, cameras follow ‘reality patients’ who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-food, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments—while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.
Forks Over Knives utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival footage. The film features numerous leading experts on health, examines the question “why we don’t know,” and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.
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| | 19 CloseYour Blue Zone Kitchen: How To Cook Like the World’s Healthiest People
Thursday, July 19
Westside Santa Cruz
Your Blue Zone Kitchen: How To Cook Like the World’s Healthiest PeopleFood & Drink
6:00pm - 8:30pm
$199.00With Nutritionist and Chef Jenny Brewer
Join Chef Jenny in this 3-day cooking series to learn how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the Blue Zones—those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people.
In this three-class series, we’ll prepare delicious recipes from each blue zone, including Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Ikaria, Greece. You’ll also be inspired by stories of the people, foods, and routines of healthy elders and understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play in improving our diet and health. And you’ll discover the exact foods that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health and how to transform your kitchen into a mini blue zone.
This class will be primarily vegetarian, with some use of fish, eggs and dairy. In those cases, there will be a vegan option.
Class meets Thursdays, July 12 through July 26, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
July 12: Overview and Okinawa, Japan
July 19: Sardinia, Italy and Ikaria, Greece
July 26: Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Price includes a glass of red wine (Hey-it’s Blue Zone Approved!)
Series ticket price covers all three days.
About the Instructor:
Jenny Brewer is a nutritionist and natural foods chef who believes healthy food should be fun and flavorful. She's a graduate of the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City, has a Masters Degree in Nutrition and is a Certified Nutrition Specialist.
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| | | | 26 CloseYour Blue Zone Kitchen: How To Cook Like the World’s Healthiest People
Thursday, July 26
Westside Santa Cruz
Your Blue Zone Kitchen: How To Cook Like the World’s Healthiest PeopleFood & Drink
6:00pm - 8:30pm
$199.00With Nutritionist and Chef Jenny Brewer
Join Chef Jenny in this 3-day cooking series to learn how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the Blue Zones—those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people.
In this three-class series, we’ll prepare delicious recipes from each blue zone, including Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Ikaria, Greece. You’ll also be inspired by stories of the people, foods, and routines of healthy elders and understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play in improving our diet and health. And you’ll discover the exact foods that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health and how to transform your kitchen into a mini blue zone.
This class will be primarily vegetarian, with some use of fish, eggs and dairy. In those cases, there will be a vegan option.
Class meets Thursdays, July 12 through July 26, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
July 12: Overview and Okinawa, Japan
July 19: Sardinia, Italy and Ikaria, Greece
July 26: Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Price includes a glass of red wine (Hey-it’s Blue Zone Approved!)
Series ticket price covers all three days.
About the Instructor:
Jenny Brewer is a nutritionist and natural foods chef who believes healthy food should be fun and flavorful. She's a graduate of the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York City, has a Masters Degree in Nutrition and is a Certified Nutrition Specialist.
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