Start Your New Year With Healthy Mardi-Gras Style Recipes!

 Step into 2025 with festive, New Orleans-inspired cuisine! Chef Matt Palarma has prepared a healthy, nourishing menu full of flavorful cajun-style foods that are perfect for getting into the Mardi Gras spirit all while fueling your body and mind with high-quality foods!

Enjoy an informative cooking class and learn how to make your next favorite dish! What better way to start the new year than with learning new recipes and learning how to make healthy foods taste delicious?

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Cooking Class & Dinner Menu:

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“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.” – Hippocrates

“When you start eating foods without labels, you no longer need to count calories.” – Amanda Kraft

“To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients.” – John M. Poothullil

This interactive, healthy cooking class and dinner is sure to leave you feeling refreshed and inspired!

ABOUT FOODRX:

FoodRx is an initiative from Hope Community and USA Health’s Integrative Health & Wellness department. Our mutual goal is to share knowledge on healthy cooking and the positive impact a plant-forward diet has on health and disease. Twenty dinner guests learn hands-on, plant-forward cooking strategies and methods from local culinary and integrative health experts focusing on the positive impact culinary medicine and evidence-based nutrition have on health and disease. The class breaks into small groups, each preparing a portion of the meal before enjoying the communal dinner together around the dinner table.

Our hope is that classes like these will provide the knowledge and tools for everyone to take control of their health with food, even those who may not have the means to access fresh, whole foods frequently or easily.