Events Aplenty! – Cooking, Voting, Climate, Healing…

Saturday, Sep. 12 “Join Laila El-Haddad for her second LIVE cooking class with the museum, as she guides us through the recipe for Rumaniyya, a seasonal Palestinian dish comprised of stewed eggplants, pomegranate, and lentils flavored with distinctive Gazan spices. We will cook together while discussing the intersection of food, culture, and politics. Laila, also […]

Cooking – June 4, 2020

I know as I create this mealthere is another cooking going on.It, too, is all motion, all process—an inner transformation.Help me to give myself awayas easily as this carrot, this new potato.I want my layers to peel away like the onion’s.I want to be as empty and cleanas the universe in a sweet green pepperwith […]

What Glory Is For – May 25, 2020

“I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn’t it what all the great wars and battles are fought for — so that at day’s end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?” ―Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices

Peel Away – July 6, 2018

“I know as I create this meal there is another cooking going on. It too, is all motion, all process—an inner transformation. Help me to give myself away as easily as this carrot, this new potato. I want my layers to peel away like the onion’s. I want to be as empty and clean as […]