CUESA Evening Party!
Please join us tonight 5:30-8pm for a springtime art-inspired evening party in the Ferry Building’s Grand Hall!
CUESA and USBG, collaborated with SFMOMA for The Art of the Modern Drink: Spring Cocktails from the Farmer’s Market, enlisting a talented line-up of renowned bartenders & chefs who will offer cocktails and small bites based on a work of art of their choosing from the museum’s collection while using seasonal ingredients from the Farmer’s Market. Tickets are available here for $45 which includes just about as much food and drink as one might find in a Dutch still life painting.
We procured lemon verbena, mint, rosemary, rose geranium from Eat Well Farms to infuse the sugars for the various cookies we were making.
Modern Art Desserts is known for creating dessert, food, and drink inspired by SFMOMA exhibitions and collections. Color, taste and display were crucial to our project at SFMOMA and all of these things are prevalent throughout the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market. We were invited to create an edible offering (sorry no coffee orange liqueur yet!) and considered remaking one of the desserts from our repertoire, but since what we did at SFMOMA was so much about site-specificity, we decided to reference the colors and flavors from the Farmer’s Market and make a work of art ourselves! And then we made a series of cookies pairing flavors with color based on the artwork, which, depending on how the cookie crumbles, might one day be part of the SFMOMA’s collection???!
One might wonder what comes first? The color or the flavor, the cookie or the art?
Above: Color Pairings by Leah RosenbergBelow: Two-toned ice box cookies, each color a different flavor!
We will have the Modern Art Dessert books on hand for sale, to showcase the work we have done with the SFMOMA, basing food and drink on pieces from the museum’s collections and exhibitions. Caitlin will be there to sign books, so this is a wonderful opportunity to get a signed copy!
Hope to see you there… in full color!
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