Class will be taught by Dr. Leslie Korn and Chef Ken Rubin and will be featuring recipes from their forthcoming book Chocolate, Chilies, and Coconuts. This intensive, full-day, hands-on workshop includes light lunch and multi-course tasting dinner (all vegetarian). Class is limited to 16 participants.

• Introduction to indigenous worldviews in health and wellness
• Healing foods of Mexico: identification, overview of Nutritional and medicinal uses, tasting
• Public health, food access, sovereignty, and changing food systems
• Contextualizing everyday foods and celebratory foods
• Food, memory, identity and developing your culinary voice

Dr. Korn will also discuss and sign her full color, bi-lingual medicinal plants book developed with indigenous women in the jungle as part of a traditional foods nutrition and plants revitalization project she has directed for many years.

Please wear comfortable, closed toe shoes and bring a chef's knife. The Natural Epicurean will supply aprons.

Register online here.

While in Austin, Leslie Korn will also be presenting all day Friday, March 2, on the Physical Responses to Mental Health, Nutrition and Trauma at the Southwest Symposium presented by AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. For more information or to register, visit here.