Umami Food and Art Festival 2012 Program:

Check back for additional information and events over the next couple of weeks.

The Recipe Project (in collaboration with Roulette)

One Ring Zero

With a special, live addition of The Food Seen on Heritage Network Radio, hosted by Michael Harlan Turkell.

A unique, recently published book and CD project presents recipes by top chefs scored by Brooklyn based, indie rock band, One Ring Zero.  Lead by composer Michael Hearst, the band experimented with a variety of musical styles according to each chef’s vision. The lyrics were contributed by Mario Batali, Tom Collicio, and David Chang, among others.

In the spirit of the project, this event brings together live music, delicious food and drinks, and some personal reflections on both. This final component will be presented by food writer and photographer Michael Harlan Turkell, hosting a special addition of his talk show The Food Seen on Heritage Network Radio from Roulette.

Thursday, April 12th

7:30 – 9:30 PM

@ Roulette

509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves)

Downtown BROOKLYN (2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains)

Tickets: $20 Roulette members, students and seniors: $15

To purchase tickets for The Recipe Project >>

Fertile Hybrids:
Screening of International Artists’ Short Food Films

Accompanied by the experimental culinary creations of Mihir Desai

A screening of international artists’ short food includes contributions from different cultures, but more significantly, it includes a variety of different approaches to food highlighting its unique, multi-faceted nature. Some of the films are funny, some poignant, some disturbing and some sexy. These artists mine food for its links to everyday life, to family, to economy, to religion and to the human body, and offer the audience a very intimate movie watching experience.

Friday, April 13th

8:00 PM

@ Roulette

509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves)

Downtown BROOKLYN (2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains)

Tickets: $15 Roulette members, students and seniors: $10

To purchase tickets for Fertile Hybrids Screening >>

Reflections of Taste and Place: a multi-sensory celebration of Israeli art, food and wine (in collaboration with Astor Center for Food and Wine)

Supported by Recanati Wines and the Israeli Consulate

Guy Goldstein, Chef Einav Gefen, Chef Lior Lev Sercarz (La Boîte), Ayala Hodak (Taboon and Taboonette)

Israeli artists, chefs and producers explore a relationship to place through flavors, smells,  and textures. Guy Goldstein’s unique art pieces raise questions of home and immigration, labor and process. His work is echoed in Gefen’s delicious culinary creations, a tasting of the wonderful Recanati wines, and Lev Sercarz hands-on spice mixing workshop. The event is accompanied by live music.  Enjoy an opportunity to meet and talk with artists and chefs, and engage all the senses in an exploration of relationship between taste and place.

Sunday, April 15th

4:30 -6:30 PM

Astor Center for Food and Wine

399 Lafayette  @ East 4th Sreet, NYC , NY

(6 train to Astor or R train to 8 st)

To purchase tickets to Reflections of Taste and Place >>

Enri¢hed

Tattfoo Tan

Enri¢hed invites participants to rethink the all-American food: breakfast cereal. Discover cereal’s genesis and history and its influence on consumers, particularly young children. The artist leads participants on a creative exploration of designing your own box of fortified cereal and immerses the audience in the intoxicating smell of sugar and eye-catching color of  cereal flakes as they blow through the space continually.

Cocktails, food and music accompany this gallery opening event.

Don’t forget to check out Coolhouse ice cream truck right outside 3rd Ward!

Friday, April 20th — FREE

7 – 9:30 PM

3rd Ward

195 Morgan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

L train to Grand or Montrose

To RSVP for Enri¢hed >>

Elemental >  Shaping the process for culinary evolution

(Experimental Cuisine Collective)

Chef Robert Truitt (Executive Pastry Chef of Altamarea Group) and Chef Brian Sullivan (Ai Fiori).

Chefs Truitt and Sullivan will walk the audience through their creative process by examining design-related theory, cognitive understanding as it pertains to the culinary world, and the influence on the creative process that business occasionally supersedes. Attendees will not only get a visual sense for some of their past works, but also a demonstration incorporating some of the processes and theories that guide their work.

Monday, April 23rd – FREE  reservation required

6 – 8 PM

Lighthouse

145 Borinquen Place (corner of Keap), Williamsburg, Brooklyn

L train to Lorimer, J,M,Z train to Marcy

To reserve a seat for the Experimental Cuisine Session >>

the second official ART + FOOD MIXER

Come have a drink and a nosh and chat with other folks who are interested in the connection between art and food.   At this casual, social event, we will talk about our projects, our ideas, our setbacks and our windfalls, hopefully strengthening and deepening the art and food community.  Bring your business cards or contact info to connect with other folks attending.

Host:  Tracy Candido

Wednesday, April 25th

6:30 PM

Lighthouse

145 Borinquen Place (corner of Keap), Williamsburg, Brooklyn

L train to Lorimer, J,M,Z train to Marcy

To reserve a place for the Art + Food Mixer >>

Roundtable: From What Green Springs Community?

Exploring sustainability as a thread that weaves together a community. The fabric of a Community could be tied to a concrete geography or fastened to a virtual heartland of shared values. The location of the roundtable in Williamsburg provides an intriguing starting point for a discussion of the meaning of “sustainability” and it’s power to define “community”.

Speakers:

Derek Denckla, Slow Money NYC, The Greenest.net, FarmCity

Bee Ayer, BK Farmyards and a local CSA

Tracy Candido, artist and cultural producer

Nicole Taylor, Food Writer, blogger and Radio talk-show host on Heritage Radio Network

Chef Jacques Gautier, Palo Santo restaurant

Monday, April 30th — suggested donation $5 at the door

7 – 9 PM

Lighthouse

145 Borinquen Place (corner of Keap), Williamsburg, Brooklyn

L train to Lorimer, J,M,Z train to Marcy

To reserve a seat for the roundtable >>

Cooking Art Challenge

Teams of students and young professionals from the culinary field collaborate with partners from the art world to create hybrid culinary-art pieces using a range of mediums from edible dishes to film, and present them to an audience and to a panel of distinguished judges.

Judges: Chef Johnny Iuzzini (head judge Top Chef Just Desserts), Nicole J. Caruth (writer and curator, Contemporary Confections.com), Elaine Tin Nyo (artist), Michael Cirino (a razor, a shiny knife)

Vote for your favorite team and enjoy tastings and beer!

Friday, May 4th

6:30 – 8:30 PM

Brooklyn Kitchen

100 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Tickets: $15

To purchase tickets to the cooking-art challenge >>

Children Workshop

Private event with PS 41 4th graders.