Dumplings Against Hate
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held online via Zoom. This is an interactive experience; if online learning is new to you, please read this guide on How to Take an Online Class at 18 Reasons.
Registered students should take at least 10 min before class begins to do the following: download and set up Zoom, test audio and video, wash and prep ingredients, and bring out equipment in the kitchen, per the list linked below.
In support of our AAPI friends, staff, and students, we’ll be gathering in solidarity to mix up and hand pleat a batch of delicious gyoza. Folding dumplings together creates space for friends and family to share thoughts and feelings while working together to create a delicious meal. We wish we could gather in person to share the task of filling and folding, but we will share our love with you as best we can over Zoom.
We have a suggested recipe ingredient list below, but please feel free to assemble your own favorite ingredients, or just drop in for a visit. If you have a copy of Feed Your People, check out the three dumpling recipes therein for more inspiration.
In lieu of a ticket, we encourage donations to the Asian Pacific Solidarity Fund, which provides grants to Bay Area organizations working to address the persistent anti-Asian racism, including supporting the physical and mental health of survivors, ensuring the safety of seniors, and advocating for racial justice across racial lines.
We also encourage you to join food blogger, Jannell Lo (My BF is GF), with her Dump the Hate fundraiser! All you have to do is make 50+ dumplings to sell to your family or close friends (within your COVID bubble) and donate the proceeds to organizations standing up for and giving back to the AAPI community. Check out her fundraiser page here for more information, and tag your dumplings with #dumpthehate.
Ingredient and equipment list for Elise's pork (or vegetarian) gyozas can be found here.
To receive the recipe packet, register by clicking "add to cart" above and they will be emailed out to you before the event.
Elise will be joined by the wonderful, Chef Linda Tay Esposito, to teach all the folding techniques you can dream of!
Born and raised in Colorado, Elise Hayashi grew up in a family where knowing how to use a paring knife was more important than riding a bicycle. This sparked her passion for food and cooking at an early age, and she enthusiastically relocated to the Bay Area to study nutrition science at UC Berkeley. Outside of the classroom, Elise helped implement childhood obesity and exercise research, and worked as a pastry assistant to fill her free time with galettes and mousses. She also broadened her experience with food by studying and cooking her way through the Mediterranean diet in Italy, and working on an organic farm in Japan. Now, she is excited to merge her gastronomic backgrounds to share her love of food with the 18 Reasons community. During the rare moments when she is not eating, Elise can be found trying out new sports, playing and listening to live music, or wandering the aisles of grocery stores and farmers' markets.
Linda Tay Esposito is teaching chef whose food represents a tribute and a commitment to the authenticity of the cuisines of the Pacific Rim. For the last 15 years, Linda has shared her passion and knowledge of South East Asian cuisine in the Bay Area and her work had been featured in KQED Bay Area Bites, the New York Times, etc. Linda taught at the The Cooking School at Cavallo Point and at Sur La Table Cooking School, and was a lead chef at Parties That Cook where she taught global cuisines in a team building setting. She started her teaching career at Whole Foods Market. Most recently she was the head of operations and chef at Bay Area's artisan tofu maker, Hodo. She currently leads the development of La Cocina’s municipal marketplace – using food as a creative approach to economic development by offering affordable, healthy food options and safe spaces while providing assessable business opportunities for low income, immigrant, women food entrepreneurs. She writes a food blog at www.flavorexplosions.com and you can follow her on Instagram @flavor_explosions
