I am in the process of putting together the next series of cooking classes so stay tuned for topics and the schedule. I just completed a series recently, and we had a lot of fun. Cooking class topics included:

  • The Wild Greens Kitchen: Celebrate Nature's free nutritious foods. Michele will show how to alkalize, cleanse, and nourish your system with some of her favorite leafy plant allies. She will share with you her personally created recipes and talk to you about the nutritional benefits of Dandelion Greens, Nettles, Lamb's Quarters, Chickweed and Poke "Salat." This class offered at the Piedmont Herb Festival June 4-5, 2010.

  • Kudzu Cuisine: Learn about the use of Kudzu as herbal medicine and nourishing superfood. We will prepare and sample some of Michele's delicious recipes using this amazing leaf and vine. This class offered at the Piedmont Herb Festival June 4-5, 2010.

  • Meet the Mufas: FLAB BUSTING eating plan. MUFAs: otherwise known as monounsaturated fatty acids. Learn to incorporate these five categories of healthy fats into your daily eating to reduce your accumulation of midsection fat. Cut your risk of chronic disease deliciously. Eating plans, recipe demonstration, and food tastings.

  • Heart Healthy from Romantic Italy: Celebrate the benefits of Traditional Tuscan Cuisine with a Heart-nourishing meal and healthful cooking secrets to savor.

  • Eating for Beauty: A Three Day Nutritional Face Lift. Menus to demonstrate that by eating in this anti-inflammatory way, even for a short period of time, you will experience changes not only in how you look but also in how you feel.

  • The Wild Greens Kitchen: Celebrate Nature's free nutritious foods. I will show how to alkalize, cleanse, and nourish your system with some of her favorite leafy plant allies. She will share with you her personally created recipes and talk to you about the nutritional benefits of Dandelion Greens, Nettles, Lamb's Quarters, Young Kudzu Leaves and Shoots, and Poke "Salat".

  • The Healing Bath: There are many kinds of baths one can take. Learn how the addition of herbs and flowers can create baths that are skin soothing, muscle relaxing, circulation toning, nerve nourishing, stimulating, and much more. I will share with you and teach you how to create your own bath bags to take with you.

  • Herbal Tonic Teas & Adaptogens: Learn about the various herbs some of which are culinary spices that comprise a wealth of nutrition for tired adrenal glands. We will prepare herb and food sources.