Daily Archives: May 20, 2023

Tuesday, May 30, 6:30 pm Eastern – Perfectly Good Food, Live and Online

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Curated Cuisine is a monthly series examining all things edible, from the chefs cooking the food to the writers reviewing the recipes. Meet the people shaping the food industry, both local and national and enjoy a post-show bite inspired by the conversation. On Tuesday, May 30 at 6 pm Eastern, cookbook authors Margaret and Irene Li will speak at WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Before you throw out almost-expired milk, wrinkly fruit, or squishy vegetables learn all the ways you can use those ingredients in delicious stir-fries, smoothies and pancakes! Margaret and Irene Li, the acclaimed chef-sisters behind Mei Mei Dumplings, have written Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking. They’ll discuss how to cook flexibly and fight food waste. It is a book for those moments everyone has, whether you cook for one or a whole household. We all have moments standing before an overfull pantry or near-empty fridge, not sure what to do with an abundance of summer tomatoes or the last of the droopy spinach. Chock-full of ingenious use-it-up tips, smart storage ideas, and infinitely adaptable recipes, this book will teach you why smoothies are your secret weapon, how to freeze (almost) anything, why using your senses in the kitchen (including common sense!) is more important than so-called shelf-life. This cookbook/field guide is a crucial resource for the thrifty chef, the environmentally mindful cook and anyone looking to make the most of their ingredients.

WBUR environment and climate correspondent Barbara Moran moderates the conversation, featuring an onstage demonstration of how to make a food waste feast. In-person guests will enjoy a bite from the book after the conversation.

CitySpace Tickets
Premiere: $25.00 (includes reserved seating)
General: $15.00
Student: $5.00

Virtual Tickets
$5.00 (only one ticket needed per household)

Register at www.wbur.org

Friday, May 26, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Eastern – Magic in the Garden: Land Spirits, Shrine Building, and Sacred Gardening, Online

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Never let it be said that Boston Flora publishes only mainstream events. On Friday, May 26 at 7 pm, join Glasse Witch Cottage’s Friday Night Workshop Series on Zoom.

The Green Ones are all around us and can be an incredible source of connection and nourishment. Learn to take your spirituality al fresco through tools and techniques for supporting a relationship with the local land spirits, evaluating the flow of energy in outdoor spaces, and shrine and garden construction and tending.

This workshop will be recorded for folks who can’t make the Zoom in person, and sent out for download after the workshop concludes.

The workshop fee is $15. Sliding scale ticket options of $5 and $10 are available for folks who face financial obstacles to attending the workshop. Register through Eventbrite HERE. Glasse Witch Cottage Friday Night Workshops are free for Patreon supporters.

Irene Glasse is a mystic witch based in Western Maryland. She is a longtime teacher of witchcraft, meditation, and magick in the mid-Atlantic. She has performed, taught workshops, and led rituals at many festivals and conferences over the years, including but not limited to the Sacred Space Conference, EarthSpirit’s Twilight Covening and Rites of Spring, Fertile Ground Gathering, Free Spirit Gathering, the Shenandoah Midsummer Festival, and more. Irene is the main organizer of the Frederick Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (Frederick CUUPS), offering events, rituals, classes, and workshops to a large, vibrant community. She is the coauthor of Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training and blogs weekly at GlasseWitchCottage.com.