Taos Art School

"Look at this watermelon, Piquuitos! It’s an amazing fruit. On the outside, it's a wonderful green color, but on the inside, there's this strong and elegant red and white.
Then there’s the pitahaya. It is fuchsia on the outside and hides the subtlety of a whitish-gray pulp flecked with little black spots that are seeds inside.
This is a wonder! Fruits are like flowers:
they speak to us in a provocative language
and teach us things that are hidden."
                                                ~ Frida Kahlo

Deep appreciation of the Beauty & Life Force evident in Plants revealed itself both in Beautiful paintings as well as Gardens well tended, Local Cultures Honored and Meals lovingly prepared. We focus on 2 artists who lived this Inspiration.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE’S paintings of flowers & fruits are well known. She also created a beautiful garden full of pure ingredients for her kitchen as well as flowers for her soul. We’ll use her Cookbook as a guide to follow in her footsteps:
A PAINTERS KITCHEN: Recipes from the kitchen of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Margaret Wood

FRIDA KAHLO reveled in the lusciousness of fruits and she painted them enthusiastically. Cooking for her was a Celebration, it was about Life’s Fiestas, the joy of sharing Traditional foods with friends & family.
FRIDA’S FIESTAS: Recipes & Reminiscences of Life With Frida Kahlo by Guadalupe Rivera and Marie-Pierce Colle

Renoir painted luncheon scenes, Cezanne could not get enough of apples, Monet loved pears & grapes, O'Keeffe saw flowers & fruit with a new eye, and Frida got ecstatic over watermelons. This deep appreciation of Lusciousness easily transferred from painting into the kitchen, where care was taken for food reverently prepared with an eye to all its Beauty as well as Taste. In our unique TAS experience we will enjoy many aspects of this appreciation by: Visiting O’Keeffe’s Garden & Kitchen; Seeing some great Art; Preparing inspired meals under the expert guidance of a skilled chef; Learning how to photograph fresh produce with a professional photographer; and picking fresh Raspberries.

Our Experience

This is a hands-on experience. You will join a small group of like-minded people as we enjoy the beauty and taste of food lovingly prepared, gathered from it’s source, inspired by Artists.

• Enjoy a private tour of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Kitchen and Garden.
• Have lunch at a local vineyard to sample New Mexico wines.
• Explore a local farmer’s market to select fresh ingredients and savor the visual delights of a Fall Harvest Cornucopia. Spend time in a Kitchen on 2 days learning to create wonderful dishes and shared community.
• Visit local Organic Gardens, Farms, and Greenhouses.
• Share a picnic along the Mighty Rio Grande river.
  
• Meet locals who are passionate about the food they grow & cook.
• Create a final feast to share together from Artist inspired recipes with local fresh ingredients.

Feel free to Call us for more information about this workshop.
We love to chat about our classes.

For further reading:

A PAINTER'S KITCHEN
Recipes from the kitchen of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Margaret Wood

FRIDA'S FIESTAS
Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo by, Guadalupe Rivera and Marie-Pierce Colle

R.C. GORMAN'S NUDES & FOODS
IN GOOD TASTE
by R. C. Gorman & Virginia Dooley

FRUITFLESH
Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write. by Gayle

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About Our Faculty

Deborah Madison was the founding chef of San Francisco’s Greens restaurant in l979, one of the first restaurants to make cooking from farm and garden the driving force behind its menu. A resident of New Mexico for the past 20 years and long committed to local food and farming traditions, Deborah has worked to teach about our most interesting foods, especially regional and indigenous foods) through lectures, cooking classes, and cookbooks that go beyond recipes to embrace food, farming, and biodiversity. She is the author of nine cookbooks many of which have garnered national awards from the James Beard foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She’s also a recipient of the MFK Fisher mid-career award and Andre Simon Memorial Prize.  Her books include the best seller, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from Americas Farmers Markets, which grew out of her own experience as a market manager of the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market. Dedicated to exploring the joys and possibilities of cooking and eating locally and seasonally, Local Flavors is based on visits to more than one hundred farmers markets across the United States. In addition to books, Deborah has written for many magazines, including Gourmet, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, Organic Gardening, Garden Design, Saveur, Cooking Light, and Orion. She also writes for Gourmet.com and Culinate.com. A long-time member of Slow Food and founder of the Santa Fe Slow Food chapter, Deborah has served on Slow Food’s Ark and Presidia Committee, which endeavors to list and preserve endangered foods of high quality and historical significance, and as a board member of The Foundation for Biodiversity in Italy, which works to establish viable markets for traditional foods in developing nations. She is also on the board of The Seed Savers Exchange, the organization that pioneered the return of heirloom seeds to the public at large. She lives in Galisteo, New Mexico, with her husband, painter Patrick McFarlin. They are the co-authors of What We Eat When We Eat Alone.

http://www.deborahmadison.com/
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/deborahmadison/

Newest Book by Deborah Madison:

What we eat
when we eat alone

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Other Books by Deborah Madison

The Greens Cookbook	The Savory Way	This Can't be Tofu	Vegetarian Suppers
Vegetarian Soups	Local Flavors	Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone	Renewing America's Food Traditions
	Contributions
Cooking from the Heart	Slow Food Cookbook	Good Housekeeping Cookbook	The Joy of Cooking (1998)
	The Best Food and Wine	Eat More, Weigh Less

LODGING
Students are invited to stay together at the Sagebrush Inn here in Taos. This includes a full breakfast every morning with your group  before class. These housing arrangements are paid directly to the school and are included in your Invoice/Registration Form.
6 Nights: Check-in Sun. PM; Check-out Sat. AM

$675 single occupancy.
$405 each for a double room. (Contingent upon finding a roommate for you within your class.)

A meet-and-greet will be held, with your instructor, at the hotel Sunday evening at 6 PM.

Please let us know if you will be staying with us and whether you want a single or double room. (Doubles are contingent upon finding a roommate for you from within your class.)

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