Learning to make beautiful, delicious, health supportive food can be fun and easy. The Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts offers informative seminars and cooking classes that educate and empower students to improve their health through better nutrition choices. Class offerings include:
Cooking for Optimal Health Series of Classes
In this 4-part series, you’ll learn what constitutes a satisfying, healthy, and delicious meal; learn the acid/alkaline balance of foods; get the skinny on carbs; learn how foods affect your body, mind, and emotions; and see and taste a variety of recipes that will support your health.
Cooking for Optimal Health – Whole Grains & Acid/Alkaline Balance of Foods
This essential class will build a foundation on which you can implement a lifetime of health. Discover the secrets of Acid/Alkaline balance and the optimum use of whole grains. Learn how to get the most energy from your grains, how to make them more digestible, and how to make whole grains and alkaline-forming foods a health-supporting part of your everyday diet.
Cooking for Optimal Health – Vegetables & The Physics of Food
This week we'll introduce you to new vegetables that will add variety, flavor, minerals, and overall balance to your diet. We will explore cooking methods and cutting techniques as well as how each vegetable affects us; and how to use each of them to help us reach our desired goals for optimum health each day.
Cooking for Optimal Health – Sea Vegetables & The Importance of Water Quality
You will be surprised at how much you enjoy these misunderstood, but vital, mineral-rich vegetables. As great sources of protein, vitamins, and trace minerals, sea veggies are a key component of a healthy diet. Come and learn how to meet your daily vitamin and mineral requirements through deliciously simple sea vegetable dishes.
The quality of your water makes a difference in all of your cooking. Discover what to look for when buying a water filtration system and pros and cons of various choices.
Cooking for Optimal Health – Soups & The Skinny on Carbs
Learn a variety of methods for making this important and versatile traditional food. Creamy soups, hearty stews, and refreshing broths can aid digestion, add variety to your diet, and support overall health. Discover the many health benefits of regularly incorporating miso soup into your menus. Known for its cholesterol reducing properties, as well as restoring necessary and crucial intestinal flora, miso soup is a must in any healthy diet.
We'll then look at the myths and truths about carbohydrates and how to use them to support your health.
Healthy Cooking Made Easy – Quick Cooking Grains
Learn to enjoy whole grains with very little time or effort. The summertime makes quick cooking, revitalizing leftovers, and cold grain salads very appealing.
