More From the Whole and Natural Foods Chef Training Kitchen

The past few weeks since the great cake bake, has seen a lot of cooking and learning in the kitchen – a trip to Merri Bee Organic Farm, meat, fish and pasta to name a few. I know that many readers are missing a recipe, I promise I will get to that, it’s just been so busy that I thought at least I could put some pictures up here to show you what we have been doing and stay connected to you. It’s a beautiful space, and there is some amazing food and relationships coming out of this kitchen. Angie said to me this week ” Jude, you should call this a course on life skills”, and she is right. Kitchens are the heart of any home, or any space and food is essentially the sun and life force, shaped into a package our physical bodies can use. To cook is to nourish, in every sense of the word, but to cook for many and learn the many variables that whole and real foods throw up, to cook is also to be challenged in every area – mentally, physically, emotionally and spirtually. So what do we in our kitchen do? And you in your kitchen do when the going gets tough? We dig in, we know our work is of value, we connect ourselves to the understanding that – in the words of the poet, Kahil Gibran – our work is love made visible, we ground ourselves, take a breath and finish the cooking. We sit down at our big wooden table (which also helps to ground and earth us all, and embraces us as a group when we sit) and eat. We are invariably – almost always – restored and nourished, and though tired, live to see another day.