Summer calls for refreshments and more importantly, meat – grilled, deep fried and everything in between to relax and share with family and friends. Packed with everything from skewers to thirst quenching dessert drinks, tour-goers will find great additions of Asian Pacific flavors to put under the tradition of summer barbecue tastes.
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Families will explore the Center’s exhibition Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City to learn how architecture can affect the way we manage and think about garbage in our cities. Participants will then work to design a sustainable invention for a zero waste city. Inspired by the Center’s Zero Waste Initiative, families will be challenged to create something beautiful from materials that may have otherwise ended up in the landfill.
Meet science fiction and fantasy author Yoon Ha Lee, best known for his space opera series, Machineries of Empire, and his short fiction. Also a poet and interactive game author, Lee will be interviewed about his craft and life philosophies by local author E. Lily Wu, winner of the 2017 Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award and author of Daughters of the Air.
Summer Jazz, a free outdoor concert series, is produced by SFJAZZ and showcases a variety of jazz musicians and local favorites every Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. between June 21 and August 23 in the courtyard between Nordstrom and Crate & Barrel at Stanford Shopping Center.
Want the chance to farm and harvest the foods you cook? Alongside the farmers at Harlem Grown, kids will have the unique chance to explore the farm that grows the ingredients they’ll be using to make their recipes – this is a farm-to-table extravaganza you won’t want to miss!
Chef Chloe Vichot is opening up her kitchen for the very first time to teach a group of lucky kids how to make her signature farm-fresh dishes that she packs into glass jars to make the ultimate take-away treat – teaching that convenience certainly doesn’t have to lack flavor! Your young chef will cook with the season’s best produce to create colorful combinations of fruits, veggies, and grains that will inspire healthy ideas for flavor-filled meals.
Join Chef Christian for his morning trip to Union Square Greenmarket, where kids will taste and smell their way through bountiful summer produce and experience what it’s like to shop the Farmers Market as a professional chef. Then back at the restaurant, you’ll cook up recipes that highlight the seasonal ingredients you discovered at the market. With Chef Christian leading the way, kids will leave class with a new understanding of recipe development, seasonal ingredients, and how to incorporate summer produce into their favorite dishes.
Learn the art of hapa-zome, imprinting natural dyes of plants into fabric with a hammer. Plant your own hapa-zome container garden with Jess Brey of Dyed in Queens, using plants like nasturtium, basil, marigold, and pansy.
This workshop will take place on the QBG Farm and draw inspiration from the various vegetables grown like eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, and the pollinator garden that surrounds the farm’s perimeter.
“TreeMendous Play Houses: Let your imagination climb” features a series of creative, interactive, outdoor play structures, designed and built by area students and professionals.
