March 6: Spring cooking class in Berkeley Willard MIddle School

[Guest guest]

Spring Cooking Class, Saturday, March 6, 11:00

a.m.-2:00 p.m. Willard Middle School, 2425 Stuart Street, Berkeley “Soups Galoreâ€

$75.00 per class includes recipes and meal. (10% off for SFVS members) Teachers: Susanne Jensen & Barbara Johnston-Brown

RSVP. 925-286-1395, 925-943-1147, or johnstonbrown.barabaraann. Susanne Jensen, a

native of Denmark, has been teaching macrobiotic cooking in Australia, Europe,

and the U.S. for 25 years. She is

a graduate of the Kushi Institute in Boston where she taught for years. She has been a cooking instructor for

College of Marin, the Macrobiotic Learning Center in Oakland and Lawrence

Livermore Laboratory. Since 1999

she has been teaching cooking at Willard Middle School in Berkeley. For the past 9 summers she has been

head chef at French Meadows Macrobiotic Summer Camp. Barbara Johnston-Brown, a California native, studied and worked as a Critical Care Nurse for

15 years, then a pastry chef, caterer, and home gardener expanding her

knowledge of disease and healing with eastern philosophy as well as alternative

modalities. In 2005 she

successfully dealt with breast cancer, having lost one sister to the same

disease and another sister continuously struggling utilizing conventional means

of treatment for this disease. For

several years now, Barbara has relied upon a vegan macrobiotic lifestyle,

growing her own organic garden while recapturing her robust healthy life and

sharing this information to all.