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The founder of the school, Cherie Soria, returned to teach us today. She has been in Florida with her husband Dan (the GM of Living Light) at the Hippocrates Health institute attending a raw food summit. Cherie is turning 60 in 2 weeks, and we (the students staying until then) will be catering her birthday party lunch! Cherie is stunningly beautiful. She has a figure of a young pop star, long curly black/gray hair, and a gorgeous face. Her skin and her eyes radiate like a studio camera effect - it is ridiculous. She has a humble, loving and sharing energy that is wonderful to receive, and she will be teaching us from now on!
This is her picture from the website, which looks just -okay-. In person she looks like the kind of woman that teenage boys have crushes on.
Today we had tasting class all morning. We were given trays of little "flavour" cups (e.g. garlic, lime, tamarind...) and spent all morning experimenting with how different flavours combined together. I find this a little challenging - it is all awakening a very new awareness in my mouth.
After that we made a delicious Caesar salad sauce that you would've loved mummy, because it tastes like a Japanese sauce using a lot of miso flavour and horseradish. We had that (Caesar salad) for lunch, with yummy croutons made from almond pulp. Later we also made apple pie, followed by some raw pasta dishes (pesto & marinara). These are dishes that I've made before but I'm learning new ways and techniques to create better, more conscious versions! And these are REALLY GOOD YUMMY VERSIONS! *slurp* The wonderful thing is that, they are even healthier and easier to digest than the ones that I've learnt in the past, just by using more intelligently combined ingredients and by using techniques like fermentation and dehydration.
