Cooking demonstration on the secrets to long live from Okinawa, Japan
Special Event Sunday June 8th – Eating for Longevity.
Start Time: 10am
Where: Room MB10, Burnley campus of Melbourne University
500 Yarra Blvd Richmond
Cost: Free to members; Small cost to non-members TBC
Cooking demo will be followed by the chance to sample the dishes with Japanese green or herbal tea
Event is expected to be 1.5 to 2 hours.
Bookings are essential and will be available soon via TryBooking.
The Okinawan Society of Australia is teaming up with HSOV to run a live cooking demo for us, of herbal recipes used in the region with ingredients available in Victoria. Herbs include bitter melon, shell ginger, shikuwasa, and mozuku seaweeds.
Okinawa is recognised, as one of the world’s 5 ‘Blue Zone’s where residents live long, healthy and active lives. A large contributor to that, is its herbal cultures. Their diet includes many medicinal plants, such as Okinawan sansho pepper; the spinach-like handama (two- colored gynura), which, being high in iron, reduces anemia; Ryukyu yomogi (Okinawan mugwort); fuchiba (felon herb); and nigana, eective for settling the stomach and intestinal disorders, as well as for countering heart disease, boosting blood supply and controlling body temperature.
