Cooking School and Exchange of Cookbooks
We're cooking Zuzia Palkowska's "Persian dish polonized"
Tickets: free entry
Zuzia Palkowska submitted a recipe for a polonized version of the Persian dish gormeh sabzi in an open call. She confessed to us that there is a love story associated with this recipe. “I learned to cook it from an Israeli chef on the Portuguese farm where I worked! It’s a totally amazing story because – literally – while cooking this dish, I fell in love to death with my current partner, we helped in the kitchen together that evening and I will never forget the taste of this unearthly dinner. Since then, I have always cooked gormeh sabzi for my most loved ones. There is something special about this dish and I hope we can cook it together as part of the cooking school!”
What this gormeh sabzi dish is, we will find out on Saturday 7 July. For now, we’ll reveal that the ingredients list includes – among other things – mushrooms, red beans, coriander, limes (preferably Persian dried limes, but are they available in Poland? we don’t know, we’ll check). Mushrooms and beans… Interesting!
In addition, we invite you to a cooking book swap. Bring books you already know by heart or don’t use or have double copies of – let someone else benefit. In return, maybe you can take a book you don’t have.
Participation in the Cooking School is free. Just one condition: we prepare the meal together!
Next Cooking Schools: 19.07 i 27.09.
About Cooking School
That ‘School’ in the name is a bit of a stretch to refer to where we operate – it’s a former millennium school. The whole thing is less about teaching and more about spending time together at the table. We peel, cut, stir together. We get to know each other from the kitchen.
And we cook because we like to feed. It’s always been that way. And in the house in Ponurzyca, which we ran still as Komuna Otwock, and a little later, on Lubelska Street. We always had some kind of cake for guests, homemade bread and something meatless to go with the bread. Most of us don’t eat meat, we promote plant-based cuisine and a healthy approach to the planet.
We are growing as a social cultural institution, our programme and ensemble are growing, and that doesn’t change – at the Komuna Warszawa Theatre, like at house parties, the most interesting conversations take place in the kitchen. Since we’ve been on Emilia Plater, every summer we move with the table to the garden. It’s a green island in the concrete centre of Warsaw.
About the Host
Junona Lamcha-Grynebrg is a food stylist, recipe writer and editor, runs cooking workshops, teaches cooking and styling of vegetarian dishes from different cuisines of the world. She enjoys reading and discussing food. She has been with Komuna Warszawa Theatre’s Cooking School since its first season.
Patronage
The event is held under the Honorary Patronage of the Mayor of the Downtown District of Capital City of Warsaw.
Cooperation
We would like to thank Ludwik Majlert Farm for sharing the harvest.
Co-financing
The event is co-financed by the City of Warsaw as part of the project Komuna Warszawa – Social Institution of Culture.
