An Invitation to the Table
Join me in Tribeca next Friday, 5/16
Cookbook Club: Sustainable Eating from Farm to Kitchen, featuring Chef Camille Becerra's Bright Cooking
Our cookbook club is a growing community of folks who love to cook and gather. If food is your love language, this is the place for you. Our next gathering on Friday, May 16th is looking to be a really lovely event.
Celebrate Spring by connecting with the earth and local food experts for an evening focused on sustainable, seasonal, local eating featuring Chef Camille Becerra. Learn food sourcing and cooking tips from farmers, chefs, and sustainability experts. After a panel talk, we'll mingle over light, farm-fresh bites from Chef Becerra's book, Bright Cooking. Put what you learned into action by volunteering to lead or planning to attend a community Farmer’s Market Field Trip.
What to Expect:
This month, we’ll be cooking and sharing dishes from Camille Becerra’s cookbook, Bright Cooking. We’re honored to have Chef Becerra joining us for the evening to share her expertise and ethos for creating flavorful, beautiful, sustainable plant-based meals!
Our sustainable food panel will feature:
Camille Bercerra, Chef and Author, Bright Cooking
Claire Matern, Founder of JONI
Anina von Haeften, Co-founder of Farm to People
Jess Vetterli, Founder of Simply Sustainable
Moderator: Sonia Ketkar, Co-Founder of CoSee
If you want to join a Farmers' Market Field Trip, we'll have a list of NYC farmers’ markets available so you can find the one that works best for you. Make a plan to meet up with other attendees or friends. Use it as an opportunity to shop together, sharing tips and building relationships with the farmers and local food producers at your neighborhood market.
Rough Agenda:
6:00pm: Gather. Grab a JONI Verjus Mocktail or N/A wine from Third Place Bar to Sip.
6:30pm: Learn from the Experts in our Sustainable Food Panel.
7:15pm: Learn Fresh Techniques for Seasonal Cooking in a Cooking Demo Led by Our Host, Joni, using Recipes from Bright Cooking and highlighting Produce from Farm to People.
7:45pm: Share a Potluck Meal of Fresh Bites from Bright Cooking. Mingle.
8:30pm: Make a Local, Seasonal Food Shopping Plan. Find a Friend for a Farmer’s Market Field Trip Before You Leave.
How to Prepare:
Sign up to attend
Select a recipe from the featured cookbook: Bright Cooking
Check out a copy from your local library, buy a copy, or find one of the recipes from the book online.
If you aren't able to get the cookbook and cook ahead of time, bring something that would make a nice addition to a charcuterie/crudité board.
Add the Element or Dish you plan to bring to the recipe sign-up sheet along with any dietary notes. Dishes are listed in the 2nd tab. Our goal will be to create a giant grazing table.
Bring the sauce or dish you created ready to share with serving utensils. A microwave is available for reheating your dish if needed.
We'll have plates, cups, and silverware on hand.
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