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Sri Lanka Cooking Class: May 2
Learn how to make exotic spice blends that will bring flavor magic to your cooking and recipes using those blends. This series of cooking classes taught by Baba Olga’s Chef Aliza Green features recipes from her forthcoming book, The Magic of Spice Blends, and her other books. After this demonstration class, we will all sit down together to share lunch made from the recipes. Each guest will leave with a copy of the recipes and a sample packet of the spice blend we’ve made to make their own spice magic at home. Price for the class and lunch is $35/person (online registration required). Classes run from 11:00 to 2:00 pm including lunch. Limit of 20 guests per class. Saturday, May 2nd: Sri Lanka (vegan-friendly menu) Sambar Podi (Sri Lankan curry powder) (demo) Ginger-Lime Cucumber Salad Sri Lankan Vegetable Curry with Gold Sweet Potatoes and Cashews (demo) Saffron Basmati Rice Dessert: Vegan Tahini Cake with Fruit Macedonia
November 22nd Supper Club Snapshots
We'd like to thank everyone who helped make our Supper Club on November 22nd a great time for all who attended!
Obama Folk-Art Exhibit Featured in ICON Magazine
The article below is featured in the Philly arts magazine ICON this month (November). It was reprinted with permission from ICON Magazine. You can review the entire issue, and past issues, at iconmagazineonline.com West African sign painters portray America’s first African-American president as pitchman-wingman By Geoff Gehman In 2009 a West African artist with one name made Barack Obama his lobbyist. Sheff painted portraits of Obama to advertise his sign-painting store in Accra, Ghana. Then he placed the pictures outside his ramshackle shop, hoping that customers would be more inclined to employ a sign painter endorsed by likenesses of America’s first African-American president. Lehigh University Obama Folk Art Exhibit That July an American entrepreneur-ethnographer named George Jevremovic stopped by Sheff’s shop. He was hunting for Obama images for his collection of West African signs where caricatures of celebrities--Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Jackson-- promote businesses--barber shops, cell-phone stores—they have no business promoting. Jevremovic was seduced by Sheff’s unfinished picture of Obama. The collector thought the likeness seemed regal even without a mouth, a politician’s favorite asset. To him, the painting had the vitality and nobility of Gilbert Stuart’s famous unfinished portrait of George Washington, a model for [...]
Rudolf Valentino
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Generation of 1927
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Grass
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Maria Montessori
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Franz Kafka
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Prague circa 1900
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