Perfectly Good Food with Irene Li
When:
Thursday, Dec 07, 2023 6:00p -
7:00p
Thursday, Dec 07, 2023 6:00p -
7:00p
Where:
The Lab @ Curio
2267 Mass Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
$5-25
Hosted by:
Categories:
Food, Lectures & Conferences, Shopping
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perfectly-good-food-book-event-tickets-741715169037
Welcome to our new Sensory Storytellers series at Curio's Lab! This series will feature cookbook writers, artists, chefs and literary leaders in our intimate lab space. Attendees can expect a personalized event (only 25 guests!), including spiced refreshments.
Join us for this LIVE in-person author event in the Lab and meet co-author Irene Li who will chat with us about her and her sister's new book Perfectly Good Food (Margaret & Irene Li, 2023). Event includes optional signed copy of the book + themed refreshments.
As Adam Rothbarth writes in vice.com: "Perfectly Good Food is an invigorating change from typical cookbooks because it’s (fittingly) not really concerned with perfect, beautiful, farm-to-fridge food; rather, it’s about getting down and dirty with the stuff you already have."
Date/Time: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 6-7pm
Cost: $5 - $25
Location: The Lab @ Curio, 2267 Mass Ave in Cambridge
Age: Open to all ages!
Questions? Email us at [email protected]
Location & Parking: Metered parking available along Mass Ave or outside of Davis Square.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
How to cook flexibly and fight food waste, with over 80 recipes and more than 150 ideas to use up what you have. from https://foodwastefeast.com/:
Want to cook better while saving money and reducing your trash? Learn to eat less wastefully and more sustainably in this combination cookbook and field guide, full of ingenious use-it-up tips, smart storage ideas, and infinitely adaptable Hero Recipes. Whether you’ve got a lingering bunch of herbs or an abundance of summer tomatoes, Perfectly Good Food will help rescue everything in your fridge while getting a delicious dinner on the table quickly and easily—you’ll be inspired never to waste good food again.
Written by the chef-sisters behind Boston’s acclaimed Mei Mei Dumplings, Perfectly Good Food combines professional know-how from a decade in the restaurant industry with the make-it-work approach of a home cook feeding a busy family. With clever, colorful illustrations supporting a diverse array of plant-forward recipes, this is a book for the thrifty chef, the environmentally mindful cook, and anyone looking to make the most of their ingredients.
ABOUT IRENE LI (co-author):
Irene Shiang Li co-founded Mei Mei in Boston in 2013 and built the brand around ethical, sustainable sourcing and fair and transparent employment practices, including open book management. Mei Mei is now a dumpling company and Irene is now building Prepshift, a tech-enabled coaching and workforce training firm. Prepshift focuses on aligning food business teams around their common goals and empowering them with education and transparency. Irene believes that in restaurants, everyone can win. She is a Zagat and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, six-time James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef nominee, and 2022 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner. In 2023, Irene and her sister co-authored Perfectly Good Food: a totally achievable zero-waste approach to home cooking with W.W. Norton.
