Today's fast paced life doesn't leave much time to keep the fires burning in the heart of the home... the kitchen.

Whole grains, sea vegetables, fermented foods are just a few items that have been used for millinea. The Ancestral Kitchen cooking classes will teach how to use some of the superfoods such as sea vegetables. When we eat sea vegetables we are tapping into the ancestral and restorative source of all life -- the ocean. I cannot emphasize the value of these superfoods and the benefits of incorporating sea vegetables into your diet. Why not attend one of my cooking classes and see the possibilities.  

Peggy Steevensz is the former restaurant owner and chef of the popular 1980's macrobiotic eating spot East West Gardens in Los Angeles and former founder/partner of Avotre Sante in Brentwood. Peggy has traveled giving cooking classes in Hawaii, Boston, London, Amsterdam and throughout California.

Excerpts from reviews, read the entire reviews here:
http://www.theancestralkitchen.com/reviews....

LA Weekly
Karen Kaplan

When the powers that be at the Weekly asked me to check out a few for this health and fitness issue, my lips curled.  I't not that I am not interested in health: it's just that I'd rather eat healthy food at a regular restaurant..... 
I lunched at three restaurants with healthy food in mind.  I wanted to like them, I wanted to have something to write about.....

But I only found one restaurant that I could recommend with a clear conscience.  Ironically  enough it specializes in macrobiotic cooking....
The review ends with a full turn about and Kaplan writing:
 " I tell you, if East West Gardens were in Manhattan, I just might be macrobiotic today"


Restaurant Life
Wayne Potter
For a natural foods restaurant to survive ( and to thrive) for over nine years is macro-miraculous, to say nothing of the, a macrobiotic phenomenon.  East West Gardens has done it and, after dining there, I can see why.  Peggy Steevensz , is one of the most imaginative food mavens in these parts.  What she does with natural foods sans sugar, cholesterol, chemical additives and the rest of the junk we usually pump ion ourselves is a trump of the chefs talent….

If this is "health food," it would behoove us to take a closer look because, by all standards, it is also very fine gourmet dining...
Only a block from CBS , some very big name entertainers are regular  visitors.



Restaurant Review
Eliot Jay Rosen
Our Featured restaurant this issue can be described as nouvelle macrobiotics to coin a new phrase.  It has none of the heavy handed macro-neurotic rigidity that sometimes characterized this philosophy of eating when it  became popular in the sixties.  The East West Gardens is very "contemporary LA in the eighties" due to primarily Peggy Steevensz...

It isn't only the food that makes the East West Gardens so special, it is the inner attitude of those that cook and serve it, ( the Zen of cooking?).  Just as a house is not a home, a home being more that just a place to live, the EAst West Gardens is more than just a place to eat,  It is an experience in healthy dining.

Whole Life
by Robin Quin
Avotre Sante ( To Your Health) at 13016 San Vincent Blvd was recenty opened by owners, Nour Tillo, an interior designer and Peggy Steevensz, a veteran restauranteur.  You may know Steevensz's name from her association with the popular macrobiotic eating spot, East West Gardens, located off Melrose.

Kathy, who has a hard time with natural foods but wants to improve her diet, praised her dinner.  She commented there was a great combination of tastes on her plate.  The tamale was filled with enchilada sauce, sunflower seeds and spices,  The black beans were pressure cooked without fat.  The soft shell taco contained grains, mixed vegetables and taco spices.

It's great to know about another that will pass the scrutiny of both my conscience and my taste buds!, be back agin for sure.