The Burke offers a special event for everyone with popular annual family events like Dino Day, lectures with prominent leaders in the arts and sciences, exhibit-related programs, cultural festivals, and more!
With Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, authors of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
Join the Burke Museum for a very special dinner, featuring a three-course, farm-to-table meal from Portage Bay Cafe and Oxbow Farm. Explore how what we cook and eat expresses our cultural history and values, and how connecting with our food establishes healthful and sustainable practices that honor land and community.
Join Seattle Town Hall and the Burke Museum for a special evening with Hungry Planet: What the World Eats authors Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio. Peter and Faith will take you on a geographic and gastronomic adventure through several continents and provide an unparalleled view of what people today eat around the world.
Tastings are scheduled at 11 am and 1 pm and include recipe demonstrations as well as sample bites of the featured cuisine. Cuban cuisine is a wonderful fusion of Spanish, African, and Caribbean spices, flavors, and techniques. The result is a unique flavor that encompasses several cultures. A tropical island climate fosters fruit and root vegetables with fresh seafood that are often incorporated into a conventional dish of rice and beans. Come try this blending of flavors from different cultures in the featured sample, Cuban-style chilindron of lamb with PCC Cooks instructor, Yary Oslund.
“Organic, natural, free-range, sustainably grown…” some of the claims we see on food packages mean more than others. Many consumers don’t realize that the word “organic” on a food guarantees much more than the absence of pesticides. In this presentation, Nick explains the basics of organic produce, meat, dairy, and packaged foods. Each PCC Talk event includes two 30-minute talks at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm.
Tastings are scheduled at 11 am and 1 pm and include recipe demonstrations as well as sample bites of the featured cuisine. Seating is limited. Regarded as a culinary nation where famous chefs and foods are born, French cuisine is at the height of refined dining, involving the mind and all of the senses. Simple ingredients such as locally grown fruits, vegetables, and fungi along with fresh, baked goods such as baguettes and croissants can be used in elaborate meals and desserts. Discover more about French cuisine with PCC Cooks instructor, Lynne Vea’s sample of chilled green pea bisque with tarragon, morels, and Dungeness crab.
