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Events for April 2008
From 04/14/2008 to 04/20/2008
The Culinary Experience™
Special Guest Chefs: Richard Ruben and Tim La Fuente
Join us for a rich and interactive cooking school experience in April featuring the “Green Market Guru” Richard Ruben and Firehouse Chef Tim La Fuente – plus daily cooking demos, informative classes and tastings! Our week-long Culinary Experience program will teach how to take the spa experience home with you with healthy recipes prepared for you in the waterfront Lake Kitchen.Monday, April 14
Special Guest Chef from New York City: Richard RubenRichard Ruben, founder of Seasons To Taste™, is a chef, cookbook author, cooking teacher, writer and food consultant. A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, Ruben spent half a decade traveling and working in Asia and Australia before moving back to his hometown of New York. Ruben is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals which honored him with their 2003 Award of Excellence “Cooking School Teacher of the Year”.
Ruben is one of the most celebrated cooking instructors at ICE, formerly Peter Kump’s Cooking School. His dynamic Green Market classes are chronicled in his first cookbook, The Farmer’s Market Cookbook. The book was a top “Pick” from People and was awarded “Best of the Best 2000” by Food & Wine.
Ruben is affectionately known as the “Green Market Guru” and his sold-out classes showcase his eclectic, fresh approach to shopping for and cooking food. His fusion of culinary history and everyday culture is the true reflection of the way we eat today and America’s culinary melting pot.
Richard is generally regarded as a food expert by the media and has appeared on the Food Network and Fine Living Network; the nationally syndicated, American Journal; NBC's Later Today, The Jane Pauley Show, Your Total Health and the Home Shopping Network, as well as WOR Radio's, Food Talk. In addition, he teaches classes, lectures worldwide and has written food essays and feature articles for national cooking magazines including Cooking Light.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Special Guest Chef: David LebovitzDavid received much of his training at Alice Waters' world-famous restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. He spent over twelve years in the pastry department working with Lindsey Shere, creating desserts to compliment the seasonal menus which changed each day to reflect the sustainability and beauty of the extraordinary fruits, nuts, and farm-fresh organic dairy products available at the restaurant.
David was named one of the "Top Five Pastry Chefs in the Bay Area" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and he's received critical acclaim in such publications as Bon Appétit, Chocolatier, Cooking Light, Food and Wine, Gourmet, Condé Nast Traveler, Cook's Illustrated, Newsweek, The New York Times, People, Saveur, Sunset and USA Today. David has appeared on both local and national television programs on PBS, the Discovery Channel and NBC's Today Show.
His first book, the best-selling Room for Dessert was honored as a finalist for an IACP/KitchenAid Cookbook Award. The New York Times called Room For Dessert "brilliantly appealing recipes so good it becomes clear what a master baker he is" and the San Francisco Examiner hailed Room For Dessert as an "instant classic".
His highly-praised second book, Ripe for Dessert, features sensational delicious classic and contemporary desserts with fruit.
David's book, The Great Book Of Chocolate, is the ultimate guide to the new and exciting world of chocolate. The Great Book of Chocolate was cited as one of the top books of the year by The New York Times and Food and Wine magazine.
His culinary education includes learning the art of chocolate at Callebaut College in Belgium and advanced coursework in baking and the art of confectionery at the renowned Ecole Lenôtre in Paris.
David is a popular and enthusiastic cooking instructor around the world. His classes feature extraordinary and outstanding desserts that are easy to prepare for home cooks using the best seasonal ingredients.
Wednesday, April 16
Special Guest Firehouse Chef: Tim LaFuenteTim told his mother that someday he wanted to either be a chef or a firefighter. He has lived his childhood dream by having the best of both worlds.
He became a firefighter in Victoria, Texas at the age of 19. It was also quickly realized by his fellow firefighters that he could cook well. He soon became the "Firehouse Cook" a title which he relished and that is rare in the fire station. After 5 years in Victoria he moved back to Austin, Texas joining the Austin Fire Department in 1985. Tim is still a Firefighter in Austin for 22 years now. All along the way his co-workers were being used as guinea pigs for new dishes and never thought twice about it.
He honed his cooking skills over the years and in 1992 good things began with winning his first major contest, The Austin Chronicle's "Hot Sauce Contest". He beat out 212 other sauces to take top honors. In 1995 and 1997 he won the "Best Fire House Cook in Austin" contest sponsored by a local Television station. In 1997 the executives at Central Market took notice and thought Tim might make a novel "Guest Chef". That novelty has turned into a regular occurrence. Tim did a show in 1998 for the Food Network called Eat the Heat, a show about peppers and hot sauces hosted by Tyler Florence. In 2000, Tim was published in a book that highlighted 39 Firefighters throughout the State called Great Fire House Cooks of Texas.
04/26/2008
A Conversation with "Richard from Texas"
Austin's Richard Vogt is best known as the humorous sage "Richard from Texas" in the phenomenal best-seller Eat, Pray, Love. Richard will talk about the book, his friendship with author Elizabeth Gilbert, his own spiritual journey, and what it was like being on "Oprah". After the talk, Richard will answer questions and sign copies of the book.
From 04/27/2008 to 04/29/2008
In Your Dreams
With Special Guest: Neal Caldwell
Dreams offer so much to us, the dreamers. Every night our inner voices tell us of our unlived life. Dreams, like a unique form of poetry, have a language all their own. We can learn to understand this language and walk inside the poetry. Dreams come to tell us what we don't know about ourselves or what we are having trouble facing about ourselves. They tell us of our thoughts, our emotions, our health, our soul. They speak to us of the conflict between what we think and what we feel and how to resolve the conflict.Sunday, April 27, 2008
Why are Dreams important?We all dream every night. We will look at some of the common dream symbols and motifs, recurring dreams and nightmares. The floor is always open to questions as well as telling of dreams.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dreams are Always About the Dreamer.We will look at the content or story of the dream and explore the metaphors contained within them. Dreams tell us about ourselves, our emotional conflicts, our relationships, our physical health and our spiritual self. Then we will have our open forum for anyone to tell a dream and have it discussed.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Knowledge leads to change.This segment explores how to learn what are dreams are saying and then make changes in our waking life. Then we will have a fully conducted dream group where anyone can open a dream up for feedback from the group. This is a very gentle and revealing process.
Neal Caldwell conducts two or three day workshops or seminars, daily dream groups, informal lectures and talks, and private interpretations. He covers a wide range of dream topics and teach the basics of dream work, which is the understanding of dream content metaphorically. Neal conducts groups with order, respect for all, sensitivity, humor and intelligence.
Neal has been studying dreams now for over 10 years. He has several weekly dream groups at home, and enjoys a growing private practice of individual consultation. He has also received local notoriety in his hometown of Dallas, Texas, as the "Free Advice Guy" for the last 11 years.
Carl Jung believed that within each of us there is a wise old person who comes to us in our dreams and shows us better ways to live our lives. Learn how to connect with this wisdom by unlocking the secrets of your dreams.
