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Jessica Prentice
Author and Chef
Jessica Prentice is both a professional chef and a passionate home cook. In her cooking, Jessica brings together creativity and imagination with a deep respect for traditional cuisine and time-honored culinary practices. Through her work, she seeks to provide a model for how communities can feed themselves in a way that is satisfying and health-supportive on all levels: delicious, environmentally responsible, and grounded in the wise nourishing traditions of our forebears. In her workshops, she seeks to both inspire people to cook, and help them develop the practical skills to feel successful in the kitchen. Jessica currently writes a New Moon Newsletter called Stirring the Cauldron that is sent out to internet subscribers around the world on each new moon.
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Full Moon Feast - Food and the Hunger for Connection
Friday, March 28 from 8:00 pm- 9:00 pm
This presentation of food and culture combines radical nutrition, keen agri-political acumen, and a spiritual sensibility that draws on indigenous as well as Western traditions. For millennia humans looked to the moon and its rhythmic waxing and waning to chart the passage of time and direct planting, harvesting, hunting, and the spiritual ceremonies at the heart of cultures. In Full Moon Feast, Prentice uses the 13 lunar cycles of this ancient agrarian calendar to discuss our modern food systems, emphasizing their effect on our personal and societal health, and reminding us of the seasonal traditions that use food to forge connections between people. Prentice weaves her own stories of illness and healing, yearning and fulfillment into this compelling narrative. She chronicles her discovery of a way of eating that is healthy, sustainable, humane, and spiritually grounded, and offers insights and encouragement.
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Most recently, Jessica Prentice worked as the Director of Education Programs at the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, where she conducted Farm Tours to some of Northern California's most ecologically oriented farms and ranches, taught live cooking demos, hosted panel discussions around issues of sustainable agriculture, and conducted regular interviews with farmers at the Saturday morning Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.
Jessica is the former chef of the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California, where she worked from 1997 to 2000 developing a successful food program bringing together her passions for culinary traditions, ingredients that reflect the greatest ecological integrity, and the spirit of community gathered around food, cooking, and our shared humanity. In 2001 she founded the Headlands Hearth Bakery and Cafe, a community dining hall in the Marin Headlands, featuring locally and sustainably grown foods, home cooked into delicious meals, at an affordable price. The Hearth Cafe is centered around a beautiful wood-fired brick oven, where naturally-leavened hearth loaves are baked.
She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York, from the nation's only professional chef's training program that focuses on food and health and natural foods. Jessica is a Bay Area chapter head for the Weston A. Price Foundation for wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts.
Sign up for her newsletter and find out more at her web site www.wisefoodways.com
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