Article: Downright healthy and downright good: a California spa chef shows how vegetarian cooking has a place in Deep South cuisine.

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German-born Beatrix Rohlsen never expected to come to Mississippi. As executive chef at the White Lotus Foundation, a spiritual retreat in the mountains overlooking Santa Barbara, California, Beatrix often talks with guests about vegetarian cooking. Sometimes she is asked to give lessons on preparing vegetarian meals at their hometowns. So when Beatrix met Brandon resident Melissa Reynolds, she wasn't entirely surprised by an invitation to fly across the country to teach a cooking class.

Melissa visited the White Lotus Foundation with her Pilates teacher Rebecca Laney-Meers. Impressed with the beauty and taste of the vegetarian ...

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