(US-hi) Cooking club at Kaua‘i Museum features preparing in the raw

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Cooking club at Kaua‘i Museum features preparing in the raw

 

by Pam Woolway - The Garden Island

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

 

The Kaua‘i Museum hosts a cooking club from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the

third Saturday of every month that features a local chef preparing

meals that are quintessentially Kaua‘i. Raw foods advocate Jan

DeLaVega returns this Saturday for her third presentation on preparing

exclusively uncooked recipes. Her focus this week will be on breads,

crackers and breakfast items. Attendees can still expect her usual

menu, which includes pupu, soup, salad, main dish and dessert.

 

“I demo as much as I can so they can see how easy it is,” DeLaVega said.

 

DeLaVega spends more then 18 hours preparing for the three-hour raw

foods class. “Because there is no heat used to cook the food,” she

said, “it helps if everything can sit so the flavors marry .”

 

DeLaVega provides handouts of the recipes, plus a book and Web site

reference list. Many attendees are returning students so she is able

to delve deeper into the philosophy behind a raw foods lifestyle.

 

“Since people come again and again, we are starting to have dialogue,”

she said. “Last time we talked about the spiritual side of eating raw.”

 

Full story:

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/05/14/news/news06.txt