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Background

Inspired by the untimely death of her mother from cancer in 1996, Vita’s Eatery was conceptualized by its owner and personal chef, Levita.  Her name is Latin for “life,” and the purpose of her services is to show others that vegan cuisine can both promote an improved quality of life and taste delicious.  Levita turned a traumatic event along with her passion—cooking—into a means of sharing with others the benefits of eating to live rather than living to eat.  Some of these benefits include weight loss, reduced cholesterol, and decreased risk of ailments such as high blood-pressure, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and certain forms of cancer.  To this end, all foods are prepared with fresh, wholesome, organic ingredients (when readily available), without meat, table salt, processed flour, refined sugar, eggs or dairy.

 

 

Cooking Lessons in 2012
Contact Vita about organizing a hands-on cooking lesson for you and up to seven of your friends around an ethnic cuisine/topic of your choice.  Topics can range from Soul Food to Mexican to Italian to West African cuisines and can be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time.  Review the list of possible topics and an overview of the cooking lesson to get your culinary juices flowing.  The one who gathers a group of at least six people, takes the class for free!
 
Vegan Mexican Cooking Lesson
Vita recently conducted a group, hands-on, cooking lesson on Mexican Cuisine.  Participants learned valuable veganizing tips by preparing such dishes as spicy "beef" tamales, yellow rice, tortilla soup, salsas and more.  To witness the culinary fun, click here!
 
Soul Food Cooking Lesson
Just in time for the holidays, Vita conducted a group cooking lesson on Vegan Soul Food.  Participants learned various vegan cooking techniques through the preparation of mac and "cheese," barbecue tofu, garlicky kale, orange glazed sweet potatoes, and corn bread.  Click here to see what fun we had!
 
 
                  The Latest about Vita and Cooking
   Check out her blog, Vita's Vegan Ventures, where
you'll find stories centered around food and recipes.

 

Vita guest blogged for Nature Conservancy's

Earth Day 2011 Celebration. 

 Read her personal piece on Eat(ing) Green. 

 

A host of celebrity chefs contributed recipes to Nature Conservancy's Picnic For The Planet, “a celebration of the planet we live on, the food it provides and the people we share it with.” Try out Vita's fresh fruit sorbet recipe which appears among recipes by the likes of Carla Hall of Top Chef fame and Alice Waters, the green movement chef, author and activist.  What a blessing!

  
Try vegan versions of traditional soul food recipes from  
"Vegan Soul Grows in Anacostia," a Washington Post article featuring Vita and her Soul Food recipes.
 
Vita also lectures on vegan food.  She delivered a talk entitled "Soul Food, Improvisation, and Veganism" at Hood College that addressed the history of Soul Food and the centrality of improvisation in African American
culture and cuisine.  She also demonstrated how to make Garlicky Kale and served it with her Vegan Cornbread to those in attendance.