A Love Letter to the Caribbean: Celebrating Kin with Marie Mitchell
Join us on March 4 to celebrate the release of Marie Mitchell's debut cookbook Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen!
Kin is a tribute to Caribbean cuisine in diaspora and the foodways that keep us connected across geographies. Drawing on experiences from her Island Social Club residency and beloved supper club series in London, Marie will join us for a special night exploring the inspiration behind Kin, complete with rum beverages & bites to bring the book to life. Join us for a conversation exploring the family traditions, London sensibilities, and distinct Jamaican influences on Marie's culinary journey.
Ticket Options:
Standard + Book: General admission to the event + a signed copy of Kin
Standard: Access to the event and discussion
Specialty cocktails featuring Ten to One Rum will be available for attendees. Don't miss this rich and intimate celebration in a beautiful Brooklyn brownstone!
More about the book
As the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Marie cooks to understand and celebrate recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. In Kin, Caribbean food emerges as one of the first truly global cuisines: accompanied by gorgeous photographs, many shot in the Caribbean, the book’s eighty recipes blend influences from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America—delightfully creamy, curried, pickled, and tangy. With essays and recipes full of grace, humility and compassion, Marie celebrates how the simple act of breaking bread can forge bonds, evoke memories and create change.
As she notes, “Food sustains us, it marks our most precious moments, and it reveals our shared forgotten histories.” Crackling with energy and heart, Kin is a love letter to Marie's Caribbean identity, a journey through the region's myriad food cultures and a tribute to this most resourceful, resilient and joyous of cuisines.
More about the participants
Marie Mitchell cooks Caribbean food with heavy nods to seasonality at supper clubs, events and pop-ups across London. She co-founded Hackney-based Island Social Club, a long-term residency with a focus on rum and roti. Based in East London, she believes that the best conversations are to be had at the dinner table.
A Jamaican married to a Southern Italian, living in New York City, in a home where there is a constant give or take over culinary cultures, Jacqueline Greaves is strongly influenced by the rich Jamaican culinary traditions with its roots in the indigenous as well as African, Asian, and European cultures. She has established, together with her husband, a table around which conversation and food nourish body and soul in festive harmony. Since its inception in 2006, Jacqueline has been a part of the literary and cultural festival Le Conversazioni, which takes place in Capri, New York, Rome, Naples, and Venice. She has contributed to the following publications: For the Culture Food Magazine, TL Magazine (True Living of Art * Design), the online Italian publication of Linkiesta-Gastronomika, as well as Town & Country Magazine. Recently she was featured in Klancy Miller’s cookbook For the Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food (Harvest, 2023) for which she also contributed two recipes. She has also contributed to FOOD is a MOTHER, vol.2 (a community cookbook). You can follow her on Instagram @jacquiesfoodfortalk.
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