Sitka workshops focus on heart-healthy desserts
Julie Stricker
907-474-5406
Feb. 20, 2025
Dietetic student Paula Veshti is teaching a series of culinary classes in Sitka, including one featuring vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar-free desserts.
Learn to make vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar-free desserts that are so delicious you won't believe they are healthy for your heart.
Two dessert workshops, hosted by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension
Service, will be led by Paula Veshti, who is enrolled in the dietetics master's degree
program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. This semester, she is providing nutritional
services and education to the Sitka community through a series of cooking classes.
She advocates eating a whole-food diet filled with fruits, vegetables, good-quality
meat and seafood, and, of course, chocolate.
There will be two sessions: Saturday, March 1, 4-6 p.m., and Sunday, March 2, 3-5
p.m. The cost is $25 each or $40 for both. The class will be limited to eight participants
each day.
The workshops will be held at Sitka Lutheran Church kitchen, 224 Lincoln St. Please
use the back entrance to the church on Harbor Drive, as the front door will be locked.
The entrance is located down a one-way alley, and limited parking is available.
Contact Jasmine Shaw at jdshaw2@alaska.edu or 907-747-9440 for more details.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance to Shaw. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency upon request to amnorris2@alaska.edu.
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