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Living Light Queen of Kale Chips Spicy BBQ


Kalamata Olives, Pitted

Raw Power pitted kalamata olives .

Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies

 

 

all is our favorite season here on the Mendocino coast. Join us for classes and enjoy mild and pleasant weather, with many warm sunny days that make biking, hiking, and beachcombing especially delightful. Of course, we know the main reason for coming to Fort Bragg will be to experience the educational opportunities here at Living Light. As usual, we've got a lot going on! Besides our popular Gourmet Raw Food Chef training beginning September 29 through November 9, Fall is the perfect time to add to your knowledge and take both of our Pastry Arts classes this November. And to end our very busy year, Drs. Rick and Karin Dina will teach the complete Science of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification series from November 24-December 9.The Dina's Science of Raw Food Nutrition Tour continues this September and October, and Dan and Cherie will head for Florida with the Raw Food Revolution Tour immediately following catering the bountiful gourmet raw food dinner at World  Vegetarian Day on October 6 in San Francisco.

We're happy to share something especially fun with you this month, Cherie's brand new kids recipe ebook, Raw is Rad: Kid-Friendly Recipes, just in time for back-to-school. Download the entire e-book (a $14.95 value) and enjoy dozens of delicious and nutritious kid-tested recipes that will bring smiles to the faces of all the kids in your life. We're also featuring articles and interviews with Cherie in two new online publications, VegWorld and Living Foods Magazine (coming in Oct/Nov), and a link to her complete audio interview with Steve Prussack during the recent Veganpalooza event.

In other news: Living Light instructor Jennifer Cornbleet has just released an updated version of her Amazon best seller Raw Food Made Easy, complete with nutritional information, and new sections on green smoothies, raw on the go and much more - see details below. And we're sure you'll delight in Terilynn Epperson's interview with Sam Romano, a very young Living Light graduate who, we predict, will make a big splash in the raw food world. We're also including a couple of important updates from the Organic Consumer Association about GMOs and your right to know! 

 

Kristin Suratt, PR Director and the entire Living Light Team

 

 

2012 Living Light Courses -

from September to December and beyond!

We are delighted to announce that our 2013 course schedule is now available - click here for details.

Raw Culinary Arts Associate Chef and Instructor Certification™ starts September first.

Raw Culinary Arts Associate Chef and Instructor™ Series
September 1 - September 22

Gourmet Raw Food Chef Certification
September 29 - November 14

November 24 - December 9

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Click here for more information, and to register, or call 707-964-2420

Pastry I November 11-14

 

Living Light instructors, Drs. Rick and Karin Dina, D.C. offer a comprehensive and engaging series of classes on the science of raw food nutrition covering hot topics in an easy-to-understand format. You will learn about raw vegan sources of iron, calcium, protein, vitamin B12, and essential fatty acids, as well as blood sugar regulation, pH balance, food changes from cooking, anti-inflammatory nutrition, weight management, anti-aging, longevity, and much more. This knowledge will help to insure that you understand what nutrients you need, why you need them, and where to get them. 
 
The Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™ Program consists of three courses: Science of Raw Food Nutrition (SRFN) levels I and II, and the Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™ Course. In the Science of Raw Food Nutrition courses students will be provided with a solid foundation in the science and nutritional aspects of raw food and plant-based diets. SRFN II builds on the knowledge base learned in SRFN I and introduces many new topics that are essential to understanding the big picture of raw and living food nutrition. The Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification course prepares students to present fundamental raw food nutrition information with authority, accuracy, and confidence.  
 
The Advanced Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™ is the continuation of Living Light's raw food nutritional science series. This certification has the prerequisites of Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ I, Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ II, and Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™. Completing the entire series requires 15 days of class time.

TWO-DAY FOUNDATIONAL COURSE: Would you like to get started and learn about the science of raw food nutrition? Join Drs. Rick and Karin Dina at Living Light in November: November 24-25 Prerequisites: None

Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ I
November 24-25  Prerequisites: None

Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ II
November 26-30  Prerequisites: Science of Raw Food Nutrition I class.
     
Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™
December 1-2  Prerequisites: Science of Raw Food Nutrition I and II classes.
 
 
Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ I
November 24-25  Prerequisites: None

Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ II
November 26-30  Prerequisites: Science of Raw Food Nutrition I class.
     
Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™
December 1-2  Prerequisites: Science of Raw Food Nutrition I and II classes.

Science of Raw Food Nutrition™ III
December 4-7  Prerequisites: Science of Raw Food Nutrition levels I, II

Advanced Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification™
December 8-9  Prerequisites: Science of Raw Food Nutrition levels I, II, III and the Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition Educator Certification Course.

 

Pictures speak a thousand words! Now you can learn to design stunning pictures of your foods that will WOW your friends on Facebook, on your blog, and in recipe e-books. Gorgeous food photos can do more to build your reputation and showcase your talent than the most well written description of your foods possibly can. Enroll today and learn the tips and tricks for making your foods POP on the plate and on the page!


Capture the beauty of your culinary creations in photographs - learn how to plate and style your recipes with panache! Now you can learn how to create dazzling dishes especially for photography. Even if your only camera is your cell phone, your raw culinary creations will shine in pictures! Learn the basics of food styling using color, texture, and contrast in this one-day hands-on workshop. We will explore saucing, building height and movement, the positive use of negative space, and how to prepare food for photography. You'll learn elements of design, including how to choose appropriate tableware and props, and how the perspective of the camera influences what you see in your photographs. This class is for anyone who loves food and wants to share food photographs with others. Read Terilynn Epperson's blog post about the class on The Chef Experience!

Sunday, October 14

9:00am to 5:00pm (1-hour no host lunch break)

Prerequisites: None
Tuition: $375.00
Location: Living Light Culinary Studio
Recommended text: The Food Stylists Handbook, by Denise Vivaldo
Recommended equipment: chef knife, paring knife, appropriate chef wear, and camera

Register Now!

 

 

Whether you're looking for a highly trained chef or exceptional educator, we've got just the person for you! We invite you to post employment opportunities on our website free of charge, and get your message out to our extensive database of certified raw food chefs and raw food nutrition experts. Our graduates are well trained professionals who have much to offer. Find just the candidate you're looking for and enjoy the benefits of our Chef Referral Service today.

 

At Living Light, we send our graduates out into the world with the most respected raw culinary training available. After graduation, we support them in a variety of ways for both personal and professional development. All of our graduates are invited to utilize our chef referral service to help them find jobs in their chosen field, so whether you would like to add gourmet raw vegan recipes to your existing menu or are looking for a nutrition educator, a personal chef, pastry chef, or someone to help you design a raw food kitchen, Living Light's Chef Referral Service is the place to find and hire the best trained chefs in the business.

 

Prospective employers are invited to fill out one of our two job listing forms for temporary/permanent positions:

Commercial Chef Job Listing Form

Private Residential Chef Job Listing Form

 

Graduates are invited to fill out the request form to receive a full description of current job postings:

Graduate Request Form

SATURDAY:

The Essence of Raw: Essential Oils for Healing and Flavor Enhancement

Learn the basics of using essential oils for culinary purposes and to enhance health.

• Introduction to essential oils: How to use them, where, when, and why
• Culinary essesntial oils: Which oils to use, techniques, recipes and guidelines for recipe development
• Taking care of the chef: Aromatherapy for body, mind and spirit. Learn to enhance health, attitude, and spiritual connection using essential oils

This class is appropriate for anyone, whether they are professional chefs or home cooks, raw or conventional, featuring Young Living Essential Oils - the only culinary oils used at Living Light.

Where: Abundant Health Classroom, Living Light International
Remaining 2012 Dates: September 22 and October 20 * 10am-4pm
Tuition: $125 -10% discount when combined with The Essence of Abundance
Prerequisites: None required. This class is open to the public

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SUNDAY:

The Essence of Abundance: Essential Oils for Health and Prosperity

Learn to live in the flow of abundance using aromatherapy. Explore spiritual principles and practices in business.

• Learn how attitude and choice affect abundance
• Explore the principals of the law of attraction, gratitude, and forgiveness, to creat abundance in all areas of your life
• Discover how a spiritual approach to marketing, enhanced with essential oils, can make abundance flow with grace and ease

Where: Abundant Health Classroom, Living Light International
Remaining 2012 Dates: October 21 * 9am-1pm
Tuition: $75 -10% discount when paired with The Essence of Raw
Prerequisites: None required. This class is open to the public 

Total for both classes when taken together: $170 (No other discounts apply)

In recent weeks, several public interest groups, including the Organic Consumers Association, Cornucopia Institute, Mercola.com, and Natural News, have pointed out the gross hypocrisy and greed of large food and beverage corporations selling billions of dollars of organic and natural food, while meanwhile bankrolling the industry opposition to GMO labeling. These organic and "natural" traitor companies and brands include: Kellogg's (Kashi, Bear Naked, Morningstar Farms); General Mills (Muir Glen, Cascadian Farm, Larabar); Dean Foods (Horizon, Silk, White Wave); Smucker's (R.W. Knudsen, Santa Cruz Organic); Coca-Cola (Honest Tea, Odwalla); Safeway ("O" Organics); Kraft (Boca Burgers and Back to Nature); Con-Agra (Orville Redenbacher's Organic, Hunt's Organic, Lightlife); and PepsiCo (Naked Juice, Tostito's Organic, Tropicana Organic). All of these companies are profiting from the sale of billions of dollars of their proprietary organic and "natural" food brands while at the same time funneling large sums of money to the Monsanto-led campaign to defeat the November 6th GMO labeling ballot initiative (Proposition 37) in California.

We need to send a clear message to these traitor brands, in the only language they understand: lost profits and lower sales. Today, the Organic Consumers Association and Mercola.com are formally calling for a boycott of 7 organic and "natural" brands.

Organic Bytes is a publication of Organic Consumers Association.

 

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Take Action!

Four Reasons to Avoid Non-Organic Corn and Processed Foods Containing Corn or Corn-Sweeteners:

1. GMO "Bt" corn produces its own insecticide. It kills bugs, bad bugs and good bugs alike, including beneficial insects like honeybees, ladybugs and butterflies.

2. Inhaled Bt has caused severe allergies in farmworkers while GMO Bt corn pollen has reportedly killed citizens in the Philippines. Besides setting off serious allergies in farmworkers inhaling Bt, in 2003, five people living around Bt corn fields in the Philippines died and dozens became ill with fever and respiratory, intestinal and skin problems. Subsequently, 38 individuals had their blood analyzed and all were positive for antibodies specific to Cry1Ab, suggesting an immune reaction to genetically engineered Bt toxins.

3. GMO Bt corn livestock feed kills animals. In 1996, Syngenta abruptly terminated a US Bt corn feeding study after four cows died in two days. Later, Syngenta paid a German farmer 40,000 euros in partial compensation for dead cows, decreased milk yields, and vet costs incurred during authorized field tests from 1997 to 2002.

4. More than 80% of women and their unborn children have GMO Bt toxins in their blood! Most Americans probably have no idea how much corn they're eating, but with all the high-fructose corn syrup, corn oil, and food from animals raised on corn, it's little wonder that so many of us have GMO Bt toxins coursing through our blood.

Please, encourage everyone you know to stop eating non-organic corn and help get this stuff banned - or at least labeled!

There are already 16 different GMO Bt varieties of corn cultivated in this country - even though many other countries ban Bt crops. Now, Syngenta wants another approved

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Organic Bytes is a publication of Organic Consumers Association.

 

Featured Events: 

Brenda Hinton

Learn how to make raw food FUN and delicious the Living Light way! Join Living Light chef/instructor Brenda Hinton in a beautiful, exotic locale: Fivelements Puri Ahimsa in Bali! Cherie taught a workshop there last year, and can attest that it is an absolutely spectacular locale - a beautiful world class healing retreat. Treat yourself to an extraordinary experience and attend the most comprehensive introductory course in raw food preparation in paradise!

Required text: Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies by Cherie Soria

Date: October 20-21
(2 half days)

Venue: Fivelements Puri Ahimsa, Bali Indonesia

Tuition: $375 plus Bali taxes.
Registration and accommodations: www.Fivelements.org

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FUNdamentals of Raw Living Foods™ provides comprehensive instruction in raw food cuisine - it is the foundation of all of our curriculum at Living Light, and the first class in our Raw Culinary Arts Associate Chef and Instructor Certification™. Successful completion of the class is the prerequisite for continuing with any of the classes in our chef training series. And the best news is that the class is open to all - from novice to professional chef.

During this introductory workshop, students will attend superb culinary presentations showing how to create a wide variety of delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes, including:

• appetizers
• fruit smoothies
• soups
• green juices
• salad dressings
• simple entrées
• patés
• wraps and rolls
• nut milks and non-dairy cheeses
• crunchy crackers and other dehydrated treats 
• amazing desserts
• fermented foods
• sprouting and kitchen gardening
• essential equipment and supplies used in a raw kitchen        

 

Raw Vegan Radio host Steve Prussack, creator of Rawpalooza and Veganpalooza recommends Living Light as the"Best raw 'uncooking' school in the world." Listen to Cherie's Veganpalooza radio interview here. If you'd like to hear all of the fabulous speakers from Veganpalooza, you can sign up for the complete program here. 

Cherie has recipes in the current issue of Steve's newest venture, VegWorld  Magazine-download the iTunes app for iPad and sign up on VegWorldMag.com for updates on the launch of the online publication on other platforms.

And don't miss an enlightening interview with Cherie in the Nov/Dec issue of Australia's brand new online Living Foods Magazine. Subscribe free right now and get started with the informative Sept/Oct issue at LivingFoodsMag.com

Cherie is a guest blogger on Kevin Gianni's Renegade Health site every month.

 

It was really a long gradual process. In elementary school, my doctor said I had A.D.D. and gave me drugs to help me. After going through three different ones including Ritalin and Adderall, I felt dizzy and could not talk. I never liked taking them and stopped very quickly. Then the doctor told me to stop eating Red dye 40, a food coloring, that I was consuming everyday, in High-C Fruit Punch. After that I started reading all the labels on the food I ate.

A nutritarian is someone who is on a nutrient dense diet, and only eats things that have beneficial vitamins and minerals.

I've been high raw for 10 months.  A lot of days 100%, although I sometimes eat beans and whole grains, sweet potato and acorn squash when they are in season.

"I've removed all the obstacles and taken the 'thinking' out of raw food preparation. The equipment and ingredient lists are always short, and the results are always delicious. Every recipe in this book can be made in less than 30 minutes. Some are ready in as few as 5 minutes, including some incredible desserts like my amazing 5-minute Chocolate Cake!" 

 
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