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more photos from Supper Club event
a successful makloubeh (upside down chicken)
I just found some photos from the Supper Club event. I’m happy to see that they don’t show me covered in olive oil, za’atar, and makloubeh!
from home….
Supper Club!
more on this soon. here’s a preview of the event. my stomach is still full of good food and fascinating dialogue.
Supper Club at Backstory Cafe
6100 S. Blackstone Avenue (in the Experimental Station)
Thursday December 4th
7:30pm
Make your reservation today to join our guest cookers/presenters for a family-style meal and conversation…
Rozalinda Borcila and Mary Rachel Fanning are artists and educators. They are members of the 6+ collective, which strives to build solidarities between women artists across great geographic and cultural distance. Over the last three years, 6+ has been working with Palestinian women artists on a project which traveled throughout the West Bank and the US. They are also working in collaboration with young women of Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the Occupied Territories of Palestine.
The work of the collective often takes place as women cook and share food together. This evening’s menu features dishes that have been shared many times with friends and loved ones in the Occupied Territories: Za’atar with bread and olive oil; Makloubeh (upside-down chicken); Msaqa’a (eggplant and tomato casserole), Maramia tea.
Supper Club is $15 per person for a fixed menu created by the guest chefs (usually includes starters, entree, dessert, and tea/coffee)
Seating is limited. RSVP to:
info@backstorycafe.com
773.324.9987
or stop by the cafe to sign up…
Hutchinson Field. 40 years after 1968.
our eyebrows
from a year ago
She comes at me with a Sharpie.
“Do you think this will work on my eyebrows? Will you do them for me? Here…”
“No Grandma. You don’t want to use that. What happened to all those eyebrow pencils we bought you last time?”
“Hmmmmm….I don’t think I have any make-up”
(Grandpa from the living room) “They’re all over the house…who knows where they are.”
I put the Sharpie back on the desk and start rummaging through her dresser. I come across a bag of cosmetics.
“See Grandma…you still have make-up. Do you want to get ready?”
“Oh yes…just my eyebrows.”
There are two eyebrow pencils inside. They are light brown. I’ve never used an eyebrow pencil. Grandma Mary has all her life. I remember my mother saying Grandma did her eyebrows everyday. [Read more…] about our eyebrows