The Valèvida Table: Women's Health Edition
The Valèvida Table
Women's Health Edition
Jessica Love of Rooted Heart Wellness opens with a broad conversation on women's health, cellular well-being, and the Mediterranean diet. Valèvida founder Johanna Marolf then leads a guided extra virgin olive oil tasting — where the oil comes from in València, how to tell real extra virgin olive oil from what is usually on the shelf, and how to use it at home so it is actually doing something. The afternoon closes over a fall soup with an open Q&A.
| Date | Saturday, September 26, 2026 |
| Time | 3:00 – 5:00 PM |
| Where | Caffetteria Modern Cafe + Marketplace 25 on the Mall, Prairie Village, KS 66208 · The Shops of Prairie Village |
| Seats | Nineteen |
| Ticket | $40 · tastevalevida.com/pages/valevida-table |
What your ticket includes
- A gift bag with a 100ml bottle of Valèvida extra virgin olive oil and a fall recipe card
- A bruschetta appetizer to start
- Jessica Love's talk on women's health and the Mediterranean diet
- A guided extra virgin olive oil tasting, the way it is done professionally
- A seasonal fall soup with warm crusty bread
- An open Q&A with both Jessica and Johanna
- First look at Caffetteria's ready-made meals, so dinner is handled
The afternoon
| 3:00 – 3:20 |
Welcome
Arrive, settle in, find your gift bag. Bruschetta and conversation. |
| 3:20 – 3:50 |
Women's Health & Nutrition
Jessica Love on women's health, cellular well-being, and the role the Mediterranean diet plays in feeling well over the long run. |
| 3:50 – 4:20 |
The Tasting
Johanna Marolf leads a formal tasting. Where the oil comes from in València, how to recognize the real thing by smell and taste, and how to work it into everyday cooking. |
| 4:20 – 4:40 |
Soup, Bread & Open Q&A
A seasonal fall soup and warm crusty bread. Eat while you ask — health, cooking, sourcing, whatever comes up. |
| 4:40 – 5:00 |
Shop & Take Home
Ready-made meals from Caffetteria, plus 250ml and 500ml bottles of Valèvida before we close at five. |
Your hosts
Jessica Love is a certified nurse practitioner and the founder of Rooted Heart Wellness, a boutique private practice focused on integrative cardiometabolic health and lifestyle medicine. She takes a compassionate, whole-person approach to care, helping adults improve heart health, energy balance, stress resilience, and overall well-being — addressing key pillars of cardiometabolic health including nutrition, energy management, digestion, movement, stress physiology, and sustainable lifestyle change.
At this table she will present on the power of nutrition and how Mediterranean dietary habits support your daily life. Her hobbies include gardening, healthy cooking, running, being in nature, travel, and spending time with her husband and French bulldog, Beau.
Johanna Marolf is the founder of Valèvida, a single-origin extra virgin olive oil made from the Grossal native cultivar in the Valencian Community of Spain. She started it after a year of living in València with her family, when she came home and could not find anything on an American shelf that tasted like what she had been eating. She went back for it.
She trained in tasting through the University of Murcia's extra virgin olive oil program — twenty-six hours of formal sensory work in tasting, gastronomy, and pairing — and returns to València every October to source that year's harvest herself from a small family cooperative. The olives are picked green and early, and cold-extracted within hours to preserve the quality.
Valèvida was built around transparency, because most people have no way to know what is really in the bottle. Johanna does independent lab testing and publishes the full lab panel for every harvest — acidity, polyphenol count, and a pesticide screen across more than two hundred compounds — and the harvest date is handwritten on every single bottle by hand.
She is passionate about the gut microbiome and a firm believer in the Mediterranean diet. She runs Valèvida from Kansas Cit, where she lives with her family. You will find her at the Brookside Farmers Market most Saturdays.
Jessica's presentation is focused on women's health, but everyone is welcome at this table. If you are interested in nutrition, the Mediterranean diet, and real extra virgin olive oil, come.