ENTOMO-CUISINE: an insect and mezcal pairing dinner

Sept 18 7-9 PM

Brooklyn Kitchen 100 Frost Street, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Kitchen, in partnership with EyeLevel Gallery and Factoría de Santos, is proud to present Entomo-Cuisine: Insect and Mezal Tasting Menu

Philip Ross, creator of the San Francisco based CRITTER Salon, will lead this four course pairing of edible insects and fine alcohols. The dinner will include pairings such as: Wax Moth Larvae ceviche and Brooklyn Lager, and Grass Hoppers with San Honesto Mezcal. Join the intimate group of 40 at Brooklyn Kitchen for this delicious and daring foray into sustainable fine dining. Please RSVP to reserve your place: www.brooklynkitchen.com

BIOS

MONICA MARTINEZ is an artist, educator and designer who constructs and fabricates sculptures and installations assembled from commercial materials such as cardboard and recycle wood. Monica reflects on the successes and failures of the urban economic and physical systems internationally to selectively build simple sculptural objects. These minimal, yet complex sculptural constructions reflect on urban architectural landscapes, industrial buildings, containers, and urban surplus. Martinez received her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and The Sculpture Space. Her work has been exhibited in various international venues and recently at the Cologne Art Fair. She is the 2010 recipient of the FONCA’s Young Creator’s Grant, and currently resides in San Francisco, California. www.monicamartinez.com

PHILIP ROSS is an artist, educator and curator working in the Bay Area of California. For the past decade Philip has been making research based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. Many of these artworks are literally grown into being over the course of several years. Developed in conjunction with institutions that work with biological entities. Philip’s living artworks integrate traditional manufacturing techniques with technologies from different cultural fields, making sculptures that are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. www.crittersalon.blogspot.com

MEZCAL SAN HONESTO is made from Sierra Negra agave from the mountains of San Juan del Río, Tlacolula, Oaxaca. It was covered in an underground conic stone-oven on Monday September 29, 2008 (new moon’s day) in Los Danzantes Distillery in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca. It was ground with a millstone by José and el Zabache (the mule) and was organically fermented with the help of classical music. It was distilled and refined in a cooper still and was finished in October 30, 2008 with a total of 215 liters 49% alc.vol.

This project is trying to help families of Mexico who have been producing traditional organic Mezcal for over 300 years; and are in danger of disappearing because of industrialized mezcal. This project’s aim is to save this honest tradition from getting lost and show it to the world. http://www.factoriadesantos.com/

THIS EVENT IS PART OF CELEBRATE MEXICO NOW, for more info go to http://www.mexiconowfestival.org

“I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and ’scandalous’ ways that insects copulate.” – Isabella Rossellini

When Isabella Rossellini and The Sundance Channel set out to make a series of short films for the internet about the sex lives of animals, they had no idea what was in store.

GREEN PORNO, the colorful, indescribable, wonderfully odd shorts became a sensation on the internet, receiving over 1.3 million views and major national publicity including CNN, David Letterman, the New York Times Magazine, Wired and the Wall Street Journal. The overwhelming success of the shorts led Sundance to commission a second GREEN PORNO series which is to focus on marine animals: shrimp, squid seals etc. (The first series focused primarily on insects)

Photographer and co-producer Jody Shapiro has taken 125 arresting film stills of Isabella dressed in animal costumes which are the centerpiece of the book GREEN PORNO, along with narrative text describing the “love making” process of each animal. Each chapter will also include a quirky, freakonomics style one-sheet that includes surprising facts about each species. GREEN PORNO also includes a DVD of both GREEN PORNO series which are not available for sale elsewhere.

Provocative, hilarious, and truly one of a kind, GREEN PORNO is a great gift–for readers of Michael Pollan and fans of independent film alike.

Book Details

El Narval is a collective of talents dedicated to harmonizing ideas with their realization.

El Narval came into being through an idea. The idea that an object can “interrupt” one’s daily routine inspired the creators of El Narval in February 2007 in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico.

By the end of February a lion made of plaster was created.
It was created as an object meant to function as a vessel for artists around the world.

There are currently about 30 lions around the world in: Beijing, Bucharest, Zurich, Milan, La Haya, Paris, Manchester, Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, South Africa, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Mexico City, Playa Del Carmen, Zacatecas, Sabinas Hidalgo, Mamulique and Santa Catarina.