Pura Vida Kitchen, a health concept cooking school

Pura Vida Kitchen offers a variety of classes on basic nutrition for the home kitchen, great ways to prepare ALL the food you want to eat and on specialty classes for healing.  We offer a variety of classes ranging from great main dishes from all over the world,  baking pastries & breads, using all sorts of flour blends to make pies and desserts to fermenting your own probiotic foods and improving your kitchen skills as well as your health!

Here’s the Pura Vida Kitchen focus…

~ showing anyone and everyone who eats (and who may cook for themselves and others) optimal ways to prepare food that is healthful, as well as delicious.  PVK does not subscribe to any fad diets or nutritional trends which often distract people from the importance of food.  The act of eating, along with moving and sleeping, is a fundamental part of everyday life.  Done with love and patience, consistently, we can all eat for pleasure as well as health.

~ sharing recipes from around the globe which broaden the repertoire of the home cook – Greek spanakopita, Lebanese-style falafel, Vietnamese spring rolls, African peanut stews and more are ways to eat a variety of foods.

~ take away recipes, skills and ideas you can use forever and get solid ideas on preparing meals you want to    eat knowing it has the right balance of proteins, fats and carbs for you.

~ knowing, using and not being afraid of fats!  the good ones.   Fats add most of what of the delicious part of      the plate!  There are fats to enjoy and fats to avoid.   Home kitchens should be stocked with the good ones    since we can’t control for the ones used the prepared foods we buy at markets and restaurants.

~ how to make sure you cook everything you buy from the farmer’s market!  No more limp vegetables in the crisper!

~ make your own condiments – if you want to avoid preservatives, added sugars and other unreadable ingredients in your home kitchen, homemade condiments are super simple, tastier and make great gifts.

~ incorporating anti-inflammation foods – simplifying ways for you treat and reduce chronic inflammation – which can result from all sorts of stresses to the body – simple since there are lots of foods which offer loads    of nutrition to the cells.

~ fermenting foods! making kim chee, sauerkraut and using wild yeasts to grow nutritious probiotic food in your own home.

Classes taken place in your kitchen or mine or online.  They can be individual, specializes and/or we can put a small group together.