Urban Har­vest has been doing real­ly inter­est­ing tastings/cooking class­es for a while out of their Mount Vic­to­ria shop. We went along to a Pacif­ic Har­vest sea­weed class, and were deli­cious­ly sur­prised, It was a fun night as well, so I thought I’d give you a heads-up about the next class com­ing up.

They’re hav­ing a raw food tast­ing (cook­ing?) with Megan May from Lit­tle Bird on Thurs­day 2 August at 7.30pm at the Ele­ments Cook­ing school, which sounds both curi­ous and deli­cious.

“Focus will be on beau­ty from with­in, cre­at­ing dish­es with fresh pro­duce that will enhance your nat­ur­al glow. Giv­ing infor­ma­tion on the nutri­on­al val­ue of the ingre­di­ents that we use and why we use cer­tain things and what’s the point in acti­vat­ing and sprout­ing things.”

It’ll be basi­cal­ly a raw food din­ner degus­ta­tion focussed on food for your skin. The menu’s in draft right now, but the fol­low­ing is like­ly:

  • Start – Taster of spreads and dips (made using fresh pro­duce and nuts that Urban Har­vest has) with Lit­tle Bird crack­ers —  such as rock­et pars­ley pesto, pine nut cheese etc
  • Sal­ad – Mar­i­nat­ed onion and win­ter greens sal­ad with lit­tle bird sal­ad clus­ters.
  • Main – Beet ravi­o­li
  • Dessert – Apple crumb cake using Fig & Gin­ger Grawno­la
  • Dessert – Choco­late hazel­nut mousse.

There’s not a huge amount of raw food on offer in Welling­ton, as far as I’m aware (feel free to prove me wrong in the com­ments) (and obvi­ous­ly, there’s a lot of raw food in shops, but not like, Raw Food Restau­rants, if you get the dis­tinc­tion), so if it’s some­thing you’re into, you’re inter­est­ed in try­ing it, you’re a food­ie or you just want to get out of the house, get a tick­et from the Urban Har­vest site now. Tick­ets are $35 and there’s only 20 places avail­able.