Grazie mille to all the participants!
Cook Here and Now just won the Editor's Pick: Best of the Bay award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
BEST COOKING CLUB FOR COOL KIDS
Cook Here and Now is not just a statement, it's a newfangled take on the old-fashioned potluck. This underground cooking and tasting club gathers for periodic food-a-thons in a donated kitchen space, often the Zocalo furniture store in Bayview. And while the movement has gained national attention — last year CHN appeared in Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine magazines, and it has inspired similar cooking clubs as far away as Melbourne, Australia — locally the group has remained under the radar.(Which is just as well, because attendees are ferociously loyal, and each event tends to fill the 40-or-so seats mere minutes after being announced.) Attendees must sign up in advance and agree to prepare part of the community meal based on a theme or ingredient. Then they shop for ingredients, bring kitchen tools to the meet-up, and spend nine hours cooking, chatting, drinking, eating, and cleaning — all in the pursuit of one-upping each other with well-sourced ingredients, cooking technique, and culinary wow.
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I'm inclined to agree - we've had great meals in terrific company over these past three years. Thanks to all who've participated, and passed on the word.
Here's to many more!
Marco Flavio
Thats awesome! Now it will be even harder to secure a spot! ; )
It has been great, thanks for organizing them!
Posted by: roberta | July 30, 2009 at 09:14 AM
Recognition well-deserved. Thanks for all the organizing Marco! It's very much appreciated.
Posted by: Lisa O | July 30, 2009 at 09:33 AM
Marco, so glad to see you getting some props. How will I ever get into a CH&N again?! :-)
Posted by: Lilah | July 30, 2009 at 09:59 AM