Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
The World of Dumplings II
Join the Skirball Cultural Center in learning about the history and practice of dumpling making in Chinese, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Latin American cuisines through cooking demonstrations and tastings.
When:
September 28, 2016 7:30pm to November 30, 2016 9:30pm
Through cooking demonstrations and tastings, learn about the history and practice of dumpling making in Chinese, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Latin American cuisines. Find out what makes a dumpling and why they are so ubiquitous in diverse food cultures around the globe.
Savor all three of these mouthwatering sessions:
- September 28: Soup Dumplings—Theresa Lin, known as “The Julia Child of Taiwan,” is a chef, cooking instructor, and food stylist and catering director for films, including Eat Drink Man Woman, Life of Pi, and Silence. She has authored sixteen Chinese cookbooks.
- October 26: Kreplach—Alex Reznik is the chef-owner of Ditmas Kitchen & Cocktail Restaurant in Los Angeles. An alum of Top Chef, he is also the former chef of La Seine and FigOly.
- November 30: Empanadas—Homeboy Industries provides services, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women largely through an array of culinary social enterprises, including a bakery, cafe, and catering company located in downtown Los Angeles.
Speakers subject to change.
Facilitator: Lara Rabinovitch, PhD is a specialist in food culture and history. She is the consulting producer for City of Gold (the Sundance/IFC documentary about the Pulitzer Prize–winning food writer Jonathan Gold), as well as a writer for the Los Angeles Times, VICE, Lucky Peach, and other outlets. She co-edited the book Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (Wayne State Press, 2012).
Cost:
$120 General | $90 Members
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