
Masa, Mole, and Mezcal: Balancing Mexican Culinary Traditions with Innovation
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In-Person event at Makers’ Studio at Chelsea Market
Matt Diaz, owner of For All Things Good and Zack Wangeman, chef and owner of Sobre Masa, are on the forefront of masa innovation. Both are at the helm of restaurants in Brooklyn, NY, that are part of the Third Wave in Masa, but considering their obsession with heirloom corn and reverence for indigenous culinary and historical traditions, what does that really mean?

The Woks of Life: Chinese Foodways and Authenticity with The Leung Family and Grace Young
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Virtual tickets are available
In celebration of their new New York Times bestselling cookbook, The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love from a Chinese American Family, The Leungs will be in conversation with award-winning cookbook author, Chinese culinary historian, and activist Grace Young.
An Ocean in a Cup: A Story of Self-Discovery, Calamity, and Hope, Fueled by Coffee
In-Person event at Makers’ Studio at Chelsea Market
Join us for an intimate evening with Mokhtar Alkhanshali, founder of Port of Mokha, the world's highest rated coffee from Yemen. He'll be joined by author and BasBass Foods founder Hawa Hassan to discuss coffee’s history, messy politics, and the revolutionary movement of third culture storytellers reclaiming their heritage through food.

Using Fungi to Re-Design the Urban Food Chain with William Padilla-Brown
In-Person event at Makers’ Studio at Chelsea Market
Fungi and their mushrooms are the best teachers in showing us how we can turn waste into abundance. From foraging to composting, let’s learn how we can redefine our urban food-chain in a presentation led by multidisciplinary citizen scientist and founder of MycoSymbiotics, William Padilla-Brown, AKA Permaculture Papi.

Bittersweet: The Dark Side of the Chocolate Industry
In-Person event at Makers’ Studio at Chelsea Market
Join MOFAD on November 8th at the Makers’ Studio in Chelsea Market for a chocolate tasting and evening with Terrence Collingsworth, founder and Executive Director of the International Rights Advocates and lawyer for some of the most high-profile human rights cases of children suffering abuses in cocoa supply chains, and Clay Gordon, founder of TheChocolateLife.com.

It’s Not a Puerto Rican Cookbook with Illyanna Maisonet and Eric Kim
In-person event at The Greene Space with virtual ticketing option
Join us at The Greene Space where San Francisco Chronicle food columnist Illyanna Maisonet will be in conversation with New York Times staff writer Eric Kim to talk about her debut cookbook, Diasporican, inspired by her cultural and gastronomic experiences being born and raised in Northern California by a single mother and grandmother born in Puerto Rico.

Slow Cooked: An Evening with Marion Nestle
In-person event at The Greene Space with virtual ticketing option
In celebration of her new memoir, Slow Cooked, join Dr. Marion Nestle in conversation with journalist and author Laura Shapiro, as she reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert.