Jade Mountain St. Lucia
     
 

Special Events

 

Cooking in ParadiseMarch 30 – April 2, 2012
“The virtues of a locally grown Caribbean cuisine”

Friday arrival

Early arrival option:
Guided expedition to reservoir 11:00 -1:00
- In depth Tropical Fruit work shop
- Picnic and grilled lunch

Paradise cocktail party 6:00-7:00 pm
- Tropical Fruit and Edible savory cocktails,
- Interactive tropical fruit station
- Local, organic and sustainable finger foods and tastes

Saturday

Morning Tour of Emerald Gardens and demonstration cooking class 9:00- 12:00
- Soufriere local town market tour- Viewing of St Lucia’s exotic market basket
- Walking and tasting tour of our own Organic Garden at Emerald Estate
- Chef Allen’s cooking in paradise class
- Lunch on the porch

Dinner: A spoonful of paradise at Jade Mountain 7:00pm

Sunday

Our Green Brunch on the Beach at Anse Mamin 9:00 -11:00
- Champagne Mango cocktail & water taxi ride
- Buffet Brunch with hot and cold foods: local, organic, sustainable and delicious
- A guided walk through the Anse Mamin plantation

 

Mango Madness Festival June 15 – 18, 2012

 

Mango Madness or 1001 Things You Could Do To A Mango Before You Die has been brought to life by JADE MOUNTAIN consulting Chef Allen Susser and his team, celebrating the many varieties of mangos available in St Lucia. Allen Susser who is the author of a Mango cookbook and the definite authority on mangos, will host the event personally. The activities include a mango chutney work shop, mango cocktail party, Mango tasting and demonstration Mango Madness cooking class- the highlight being the "Night of 1000 Mangos" dinner at the Jade Mountain Club. Participants in the Mango Madness will join in mango field trips to the resort owned organic and historical plantations of Anse Mamin and Emerald. The farewell event will include a Mango Champagne Brunch served on the beach at Anse Mamin estate.

 

Drenched in exotic beauty and erupting with flavor Jade Mountain nourishes both the body and soul. It's "Jade Cuisine" created by James Beard award winner,Chef Allen Susser, is a brave new world of tropical flavors. His cuisine is exotic and delicious, with a history of fusion it its fabric.

A cover charge of US 250 can be added to any existing Jade Mountain reservation. A three night stay at JADE MOUNTAIN including Mango Madness events and all meals and beverages start from US 2079 per person in double occupancy in a sky jacuzzi suite and US 2699 per person in double occupancy in a star infinity pool sanctuary. For more information or to book your Mango Madness trip, please contact 800-223-1108 or email jademountain@ansechastanet.com.

 

"Jade Cuisine is a celebration of the bold flavors of the world's tropical cultures in my kitchen at Jade Mountain", says Chef Allen. "The cooking is fresh, simple and succinct. There is always flexibility for the seasons, and availability of local product. As a chef my passion is taste. The bottom line here is that food comes to nature and the nature of taste." Allen Susser personal culinary viewpoint has been established since 1986 upon opening his groundbreaking Miami restaurant Chef Allen's. The New York Times called Allen the "Ponce De Leon of New Florida cooking". Chef Allen's new New World Cuisine is fresh and flavorful, like a tropical vacation on a plate. His vision of what the future holds is a culinary fusion of cultures that share similar landscapes, tropical ingredients and diverse spice boxes.

 

Allen is currently the spokesman for the National Mango Board, and serves as President of the Miami, Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association. He is a prestigious James Beard Award winner and received an honorary Doctorate of Culinary Arts from Johnson and Wales University. Allen was Chef of the Year for Share Our Strength for his community involvement to End Childhood Hunger, as well as currently active on the Board of the Daily Bread Food Bank.

Friday arrival

Early arrival option:
Guided expedition to reservoir 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- In-depth Mango Chutney work shop
- Picnic and grilled lunch

Mango cocktail party 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Mangotini, Mango Mojito,
- Interactive Mango station
- Mango finger foods and tastes

Saturday

Morning Mango tasting and demonstration cooking class 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Viewing and sampling 10 varieties of St Lucian Mangos
- Chef Allen’s Mango Madness Cooking class

Dinner: Night of 1000 mangos at Jade Mountain 7:00 pm

Sunday

Mango Brunch on the Beach at Anse Mamin 9:00 am - 11:00 am
- Champagne Mango cocktail & water taxi ride
- Buffet Brunch with hot and cold mango treats
- A guided walk through the Anse Mamin plantation

 

Spices of the CaribbeanSeptember 7 – 10, 2012

We look to spices to capture the flavors of faraway places. Specific combinations of herbs, spices, and flavorings characterize the great dishes of the world's cuisines. These mixtures are influenced by the foodstuffs native to each region, being distinctive by the climate, architecture of the land and local culture. Every culture has its own set of traditions about how to cook.

By reaching into our spice box, the foods, cooking and specific dishes become immensely diverse. The individual characteristic flavor, mingled with the smell and taste evokes our culinary imagination. It is the taste that ultimately defines the ethnic definition.

There was a time in history that spices where so precious that they where locked away. Let's let loose the wonders of spice together.
 

Friday arrival

"Spicy" cocktail party 6:00-7:00 pm
- Tropical Fruit and exotic spiced cocktails
- Interactive spice station
- Local, seasonal and sustainable spicy finger foods and tastes

 

Saturday

- Morning Tour of Emerald Gardens and demonstration cooking class 9:00- 12:00
- Soufriere local town market tour- Viewing of St Lucia's exotic market basket
- Walking and tasting tour of our own Organic Garden at Emerald Estate including a Chef Allen's cooking class "spices of the Caribbean" including Lunch on the porch
 
Dinner: An exotic, Spicy dinner at Jade Mountain 7:00pm
A five-course dinner spectacular Seasonal and Sustainable Menu using local grown and exotic spices matched with wines

 

Jade Mountain's Chocolate FestivalDecember 13 – 16, 2012
“Jade Mountain Estate Chocolate”
A hand on interactive experience in the world of cacao and chocolate

Theobroma cacao ( Theo= gods, broma = foods)
Chocolate is known as the food of the gods.

Our annual chocolate festival is one of a kind. It will only bring you closer to understand and experience the alchemy of chocolate. It is a delicious, interactive and exotic introduction to the world's favorite aphrodisiac - chocolate. Cacao has a history in St Lucia that dates back to the 1700's. Our Cacao trees, over 1000 strong, are established in both Anse Mamin Plantation and in Emerald Estate. We have been harvesting and producing cacao beans for generations. Now you can be one of the first to taste our premier vintage of our Jade Mountain Estate Grown chocolate.

Friday in Jade Mountain Club

"Chocolat-tini" party 6:30-7:30 pm
Be our guest and join our world famous Consulting Chef Allen Susser as he shares his talents and passion for chocolate with you. Take pleasure in a complimentary chocolate martini. Taste local, seasonal chocolate inspired finger foods that are both savory and delicious.

 

Following dinner you can choose from our exotic chocolate desserts including a lush Double Dark Chocolate Fondue that must be shared to enjoy its true aphrodisiac pleasures.

Saturday

Morning Tour of Nick Troubetzkoy's Emerald Estate Cacao Plantation
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Join our engaging walking and tasting tour of our own Cocoa Plantation and Organic Garden at Emerald Estate. The Cacao tree bears its leaves flowers, and fruit simultaneously throughout the year. The Cacao pods are shaped like large oval melons, saffron yellow or red in color and a wonderful sight to enjoy. Learn about the alchemy of chocolate from pod to truffle in a unique workshop led by Chef Allen. We will continue with a refreshing picnic lunch on the porch of the farm house on Nick Troubetzkoy's Emerald Estate.

 

Why stop at food and drink Luxuriate in a Chocolate Delight
Luxury at its Sweetest. Chocolate - what a treat to experience it on your body! The cocoa bean which grows here in Soufriere has long been touted for breaking down harmful free-radicals and now Jade Mountain has taken the cocoa treatment to new exotic heights! Revitalize your skin with anti-oxidant properties while indulging your sense for sweetness with this delightful chocolate experience. Decadently warm then cooling chocolate is applied in layers, stimulating endorphins in the body and adding minerals to the skin to awaken your senses and bringing them into pure harmony. The chocolate caresses your skin while you relax, leaving you looking fresh and feeling revitalized. (optional inclusion: 1 hour $150.00 U.S.)

 

Dinner: An exotic, ALL - Chocolate dinner at Jade Mountain Club
This surprising specially prepared five-course dinner is spectacular with a Seasonal and Sustainable Menu using chocolate in each course. This creative dinner will change your mind about chocolate forever. With chocolate as inspiration, as spice, as flavor and texture. The dinner can be accompanied with a pairing from our wine cellar to match each course.

Sunday

"Chocolate" Breakfast in Bed

Breakfast is served in bed: Let us treat you to a very exotic breakfast in bed. You will want to savor this experience with the one you love in the privacy of your sanctuary. You choose the time (from sunrise on) we will handle the rest.

 

ADVANCED FLASH TECHNIQUES
IN THE ISLANDS!

2012 DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

Photographers have an opportunity to learn lighting and camera techniques from one the world's leading photographers and educators at St. Lucia's ANSE CHASTANET and JADE MOUNTAIN Resorts. Joe McNally, internationally acclaimed American photographer and long-time photojournalist, will conduct an intensive week of small flash education, emphasizing advanced techniques. "There is no more beautiful place to shoot, and to learn about light," says Joe McNally who has had a longstanding photographic love affair with the resorts.

Monday Program

Morning Session: 9am. Class meets in air conditioned conference room equipped with digital projector. Morning is devoted to assessing participant portfolios and determining objectives for the week. Each participant to bring no more than 10 images for review and discussion. They can be the participant's images, or images not their own that they admire and wish to know more about, or emulate in some way.

Break from 12-3.

Afternoon session: 3pm. Instructor slide show. Demo of sensor cleaning techniques. Review of basic lighting strategies. Afternoon shooting session in teams with a model assigned to each team. Basic assignment: Use one light well.

Tuesday Program

Meet in conference room at 9:30 for image review and critique. Time in class available to select and edit images for max of 3 per student to project.

Break from 12-3.

Afternoon demo and on location discussion of shooting interior/exterior environments effectively, with emphasis on using flash to balance exposure zones encountered in the open air rooms of Jade Mountain. Each team disperses with models to a selection of rooms to shoot for the afternoon. Assignment is to create mood and ambiance, while effectively using small flash techniques to blend interior and exterior environments.

Wednesday Program

Meet in conference room at 9:30 for image review and critique. Time in class available to select and edit images for max of 3 per student to project.

Break from 12-3.

Afternoon Session: Instructor demo on blending flash with intense sun using advanced technique of high speed flash. Situation created to simulate wedding on the beach, and employment of techniques to successfully shoot a bride and groom in a fluid way as event unfolds. Teams assigned models, and rotate with various models, including wedding couple, for afternoon.

Alternative Location: Soufrieres Fire Department. Working to craft location driven, multiple flash portraits that show character and drama.

Bonus Evening Demo: Instructor will light and shoot a romantic dinner for two in terrace setting, showing selective flash techniques for couple at table, while blending sunset effectively. Use of gels, exposure techniques, grid spots, snoots.

Thursday Program

Meet in conference room at 9:30 for image review and critique. Time in class available to select and edit images for max of 3 per student to project.

Break from 12-3.

Afternoon Session: Photography in the jungle. Panning and blurring techniques with flash and jungle bikers. Demonstration by instructor in the art of creating images that move. Also portrait techniques demonstrated in intense, beautiful jungle environment. Teams assigned models to shoot for afternoon. Each team will have access to an experienced biker.

Friday Program

Meet in conference room at 9:30 for image review and critique. Time in class available to select and edit images for max of 3 per student to project.

Break from 12-4.

Final Afternoon session: Meet in class to for final Q&A session and review of techniques learned. Last session late on Friday, class gathers on beach for spectacular "flambo" sunset session, with fires on the beach, models and flash lighting with gels. This session will employ new "radio TTL" equipment from Pocket Wizard. Wrap up gear at dusk, and retire to beach bar for goodbye drink. (Or several.)

All session times and subject matter subject to change pending availability of subjects, weather, rooms etc.

The week will be an informative, intensive look at the possibilities of small flash, and the nature of what is beautiful light and how to use it to make your pictures more eloquent and expressive. Each day will involve shooting all around the lush grounds of the resort, working with models, heading into jungle locations for action flash photography of mountain biking. During the "bad light" of the day, classroom sessions will take place discussing the theory and the practical use of flash photography. Each day of shooting will be followed the next day with a critique of the efforts in the field. The critique sessions will spur further investigation of the practical, fluid use of flash photography and how to improve your skills. Using light well is the key to making good pictures. Light is the language of photography. It is how photographers write the story of our subjects. With 30 years experience as one of the top magazine photographers in the world, touted by American Photographer magazine as "perhaps the most versatile photographer working today," Joe McNally knows light, and is renowned not only for his skills behind the camera but also his ability to convey those skills to others in a teaching environment. For five days, workshop participants will work with Joe and his assistants to ramp up their skills using flash, and learning to deal with: available light, and how to recognize good light; mixing flash with available light in a seamless and beautiful way; use of reflectors and diffusers; how to control and fire remote flashes for sophisticated, professional results; use of color and gels; the essentials of exposure; and how to craft a wonderful quality of portrait light which is essential to make storytelling photos of our subjects.

Joe is currently one of the best selling authors and educators in all of digital photography, world wide. They have chosen two of St. Lucia's most unique properties: Anse Chastanet and Jade Mountain. Anse Chastanet is nestled amidst 600 tropical acres with two soft sand beaches bordering pristine coral reefs, in complete harmony with its natural surroundings. St. Lucia's World Heritage site, the Pitons make for a spectacularly scenic backdrop. Jade Mountain, its sister property rising majestically above Anse Chastanet, is a cornucopia of organic architecture celebrating St Lucia's stunning scenic beauty. For resort information, visit ANSE CHASTANET and SCUBA ST. LUCIA.

The 5 day educational seminar is available to resident guests of ANSE CHASTANET and JADE MOUNTAIN. The seminar is US 1750. Includes location and model fees. Anse Chastantet is offering a 6 night package beginning at US 2335 for a single occupancy standard room, US 1475 per person in a double occupancy standard room. The package rate includes airport round trip transfers, all meals and tax and service. For more information on the Advanced Techniques/Hot Shoe Lighting Workshop, contact lynn@joemcnally.com Tel: 203-438-4750.

To make reservations for the seminar and hotel, contact 1-800-223-1108 or email: ansechastanet@candw.lc

 

  
       
       
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