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.