Food is Art Last-Minute Event with Susana Trilling

Upcoming Last Minute Food is Art Event

Food is Art is proud to announce a last-minute addition to its calendar of events.  We invite you  to meet and greet  Susana Trilling at a cocktail party at my home on Friday, June 25th from 6 – 9PM, featuring her food.  She has sent me the following menu

OAXACAN BOTANA MENU

MEXICAN
CULTURAL INSTITUTE NYC

BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

FOOD IS ART PROGRAM

FRIDAY JUNE 25, 2010

HOME OF ZARELA MARTINEZ

Presented by

CHEF SUSANA TRILLING

SIKIL PAK con Ensalada de Zanahoria y Jicama en Totopos Istmeña

CEVICHE DE CAMARON con crema de aguacate con chepiche en Totopos Istmeña

TLALLUDAS de quesillo con ensalada de nopales asados, salsa de chintestle verde

PLATANOS FRITOS con queso crema y mermelada de chile canario y jalapeño rojo

ALAMBRES DE SIRLON DE RES con cebollas de cambray y salsa de mole rojo

POLLO y VERDURAS ROSTIZADO con salsa de chintestle, naranja y miel

TRUFFAS DE CHOCOLATE OAXAQUENO con pasta de chintestle y sal de mar

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Press Release

Food is Art is part of the New York City’s Mexican Cultural Institute new culinary program designed to commemorate the bicentennial year of Mexican Independence. Zarela Martinez and Marissa Sanchez, curators of the Food is Art program, has invited Susana Trilling of Seasons of My Heart Cooking School in Oaxaca, Mexico for an evening of Oaxacan botanas and a mezcal tasting. Chef Susana Trilling has become famous for teaching and interpreting the traditional foods of Oaxaca, considered by many as the culinary gemstone of Mexico. Susana is in New York to launch Seasons of My Heart new line of Oaxacan food products – mole paste, handcrafted Mexican chocolate, mixed chile marmalades, smoked chintestle seasoning paste, and hand harvested natural sea salt at the 56^th Summer Fancy Food Show at the Jacob K. Javitz Center. Seasons of My Heart and Aurora Exports is sponsored by ProMexico´s introduction of premier products from Mexico – they can be visited at booth #232 at the International Pavilion – Mexico.

Susana has lived in Oaxaca since 1988, and in 1996 she wrote My Search for the Seventh Mole, A Story with Recipes and in 1999 Seasons of My Heart; A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, Mexico, the companion book of her television series by the same name. As a renown authority on Oaxacan cuisine, Susana has filmed and hosted numerous TV programs including: Two Hot Tamales (Food Network, 1995), One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless (2000) and A Cooks Tour with TV Chef Anthony Bourdain (2001). Aaron Sanchez and Douglas Rodriguez filmed an episode of The Melting Pot in Susana’s kitchen (2000) where Pita Matias also filmed an episode of Taste Takes Off for New Zealand BBC in 2003. Other BBC filmings in the Rancho Aurora kitchen include: World on a Plate with Lloyd Grossman and An Italian Cooks in Mexico (2005). Susana has done TV shows: with Burt Wolf, Andrew Zimmern for his show Bizarre Foods, The Diary of a Foodie, and more recently with Jeff Corwin for his series Extreme Cuisine (Food Network, May 2009). Susana’s biography is featured in At the Table With …(Food Network Canada, Fall 2009), a series about the lives of chefs.

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