Food Jam

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September 21, 2012 (All day) - September 23, 2012 (All day)

In this hands-on vegetarian cooking class, gourmet organic chef/teacher and cookbook author Leslie Cerier, presents local and seasonal whole foods that are not just good for you, but also pleasurable and delicious. Come cook and feast on exciting vegetarian dishes that will enhance your immune system, give you energy, rejuvenate your senses, keep your bones strong, and help you maintain an active lifestyle. During the workshop, Cellist and award winning composer, Stephen Katz will play improvisational music to inspire our cooking and creativity. Stephen will also play for 2 evening/after dinner contact jams.

Tuition: $200/$250/$300; Room & Board: $150

Faculty

Stephen Katz

Cellist and award-winning composer Stephen Katz has charted new territory for the rhythmic potential of the cello. The groundbreaking technique he calls Flying Pizzicato picks up where guitar playing leaves off, taking listeners into the realm of highly rhythmic, individual-note, strummed counterpoint. Translation: he composes and performs soulful, solo cello pieces that juggle two or three “voices”, resulting in music that simultaneously lays grooves, weaves tunes, and lifts spirits.

Stephen has premiered his cello compositions at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City, and performed internationally with the Paul Winter Consort, Rachael Sage, and the Essex String Quartet. Other artists include collaboration and performance with Susan Werner. He also uses live looping electronics to generate dynamic orchestral textures, and has distinguished himself as a composer of tightly composed solo cello pieces that unfold loop-by-loop in concert. Stephen is a veteran cello teacher, and has been a regular workshop presenter at the New Directions Cello Festival since it’s inception in 1995.

As an improviser and composer in the Dance world Stephen has collaborated and performed with Andrew Harwood, Chris Aiken, members of Pilobolus and Beverly Blossom dance companies, and has been a Visiting Artist at Amherst College (Massachusetts, USA). As a co-founder of the movement/theater company Seen & Heard with the late dancer and monologist BJ Goodwin, he literally danced with the cello while accompanying the dramas they played out on stage.

As a film composer, Stephen’s score for The Rich Have Their Own Photographers won the Jury Prize Gold Medal for Best Impact of Music in a Documentary at the 2007 Park City Film Music Festival. He also scored Two Square Miles, a film about Hudson, NY, which has been broadcast nationally on PBS/Independent Lens.

A native of San Francisco, Stephen received a Master of Music degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He lives in Haydenville, Massachusetts with his wife Beth and son Olin.

http://stephenkatzmusic.com/

Leslie Cerier

For over twenty years, Leslie Cerier, “The Organic Gourmet” has been teaching culinary nutrition and hands-on vegetarian cooking for health and vitality, as well as writing cookbooks and articles focusing on eating local, seasonal, organic foods that are not just good for you, but also pleasurable, delicious and good for the planet.

Leslie Cerier is the author of five cookbooks: Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook, A Seasonal Vegetarian Cookbook (New Harbinger Publications, 2010), which was named one of the 12 best cookbooks of 2010 by Natural Solutions Magazine; Going Wild in the Kitchen (Square One Publishers, 2005); The Quick and Easy Organic Gourmet (Barrytown Ltd, 1996); co-author of Sea Vegetable Celebration (The Book Publishing Company, 2001); and editor of Taste Life! Organic Recipes (Square One Publishers, 2002).

Leslie has also developed many recipes for natural foods companies, including Green and Blacks (organic chocolate), Coombs Vermont Gourmet (organic maple syrup) Lotus Foods (Jade pearl rice and Madagascar pink rice), and The Teff Company. Naturally, the perfect marriage of her culinary knowledge and aptitude has also resulted in many requested appearances around the country.

http://lesliecerier.com

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