Wendy Cook - Planning balanced and delicious meals
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| Start date and time: | Saturday 04, October 2008 |
| End date and time: | 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Price: | Tickets: £8.00 Adults £4.00 Children |
Acclaimed author of 'Foodwise' and ‘The Biodynamic Cookbook', and first wife of Peter Cook, Wendy reveals how to plan a nutritious meal whilst not agonizing over proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Instead she follows the principle of root, leaf, shoot and fruit.
Here’s a little background information.Wendy met Peter Cook while studying graphic design in Cambridge. They became engaged during the Edinburgh Festival run of Beyond the Fringe. Dudley Moore played the organ at the Cook’s wedding in New York and Wendy became renowned as a superb hostess both in New York and later at their home in Hampstead. During this period she discovered the magical effects that food can have in creating a convivial atmosphere, and cooked for many celebrities of the day including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Dudley Moore, Peter Ustinov and Alan Bennett. Wendy bore Peter his only two children and they lived together throughout the period of Peter’s meteoric rise towards becoming one of the great comedy legends of the twentieth century. When their relationship began to falter, Wendy took her daughters to Majorca to live on a farm and the couple divorced a few years later. Here she discovered the delights of Majorcan cuisine which, as well as simple dishes relying on good fresh local ingredients, also has French, Moorish, Jewish and Spanish influences to make it particularly interesting. When Wendy’s daughter Daisy developed asthma and conventional medicine had little effect, Wendy began a journey of discovery of complementary treatments and alternative ideas. She studied macrobiotics as well as Rudolf Steiner’s approach to nutrition and agriculture (biodynamics). Having discovered how life-changing nutrition can be, she devoted herself to cooking and teaching in clinics, communities and schools. More recently she was resident at Schumacher College while simultaneously studying for a degree in Waldorf Education at Plymouth University. She has been researching food and its effects on health and consciousness for much of her adult life. Her first book ‘Foodwise’ ‘presents a treasure of wisdom and experience for anybody with a concern for the content of the food they eat or a desire to discover more about the physical, soul and spiritual aspects of nutrition’. Her latest book ‘The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook’ ‘explains the principles behind biodynamics, and places it in the context of food and cooking throughout the ages. She takes us on a journey through the four seasons, presenting over 150 recipes based on many years of working with biodynamic nutrition.’ Wendy will be signing copies of this book on the day of her talks.
