Firmly Rooted: Chili Peppers & POC Cuisines — A conversation and tasting led by food-based collective Across our Kitchen Tables
November 12, 2019 | 6:00pm TO 8:00pm
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2019-11-12 18:00:002019-11-12 20:00:00Firmly Rooted: Chili Peppers & POC Cuisines — A conversation and tasting led by food-based collective Across our Kitchen Tables<p>Across our Kitchen Tables (AOKT) explores the origins of the chili pepper through a conversation and tasting with Nesanet Abegaze of Azla Vegan, and Jess Wang of Picklé.</p>
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Explore the origins of the chili pepper with this panel discussion moderated by Jocelyn Ramirez of Across Our Kitchen Tables/Todo Verde and cross-cultural cooking demo and tasting led by Valeria Velazquez Dueñas of Across Our Kitchen Tables/Cocina House, Nesanet Abegaze of Azla Vegan, and Jess Wang of Picklé. Followa brief historyof the chili pepper from its Meso and South American origins to its immersion in global culinary cultures. Learn about the chili pepper’s impact on the facilitators' cultural foodways and cooking as they bring Mexican, Ethiopian, and Chinese cuisines together through shared, ancestral affinity to this alluring fruit; all in a spirit of decoloniality, conviviality, and solidarity.
Across our Kitchen Tables (AOKT) is a culinary hub and event series centering self-identified women and gender-non-conforming people of color both in person and over social media platforms. AOKT provides a safe space for knowledge exchange on entrepreneurship, culinary practices, food centered organizations, and food ecosystems. The AOKT community generates and supports thriving and socially conscious food-based work. AOKT is organized by co-founders Valeria Velazquez Duenas, Claudia Serrato and Jocelyn Ramirez. For more information, visit acrossourkitchentables.org.
This program is made possible by the Remsen Bird Fund and the Arts and Urban Experience Initiative, which is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
