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This group will rediscover our city’s rich food system while learning how to rebuild and maintain it for future generations. Schedule TBD by the group.

Related information:

“Wildman” Steve Brill http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/

Ava Chin http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/urban-forager-to-a-wild-rose-hip/

forageSF http://foragesf.com/

Each class session would focus on one or two particular drinks, with a lecture period of the origin of the cocktail and its social, political and pop history followed by a lesson in preparing the drink. Students would then make their own cocktail and imbibe!

Proposed cocktails:

Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Mint Julep, Mai Tai, Mojito, Margarita, Sazerac, Egg Nog, Irish Coffee, Aviation, Absinthe Cocktail, Bloody Mary, French 75, Gin Fizz, Gimlet, Hot Buttered Rum, Hot Toddy, Hurricane, Long Island Ice Tea, Martini, Negroni, Side Car, Dark & Stormy, Tom Collins and perhaps a special class devoted to punch. Perhaps the best way to learn about these and other cocktails is in chronological order, and sipped while viewing scenes from films in which characters imbibe the current lesson's drink.

Class

A beginners class to introduce vvvv, a toolkit for real time video synthesis. The class would run through the most distinctive features of the software, ranging from the program interface, to its way of dealing with object oriented programming.

Students have the chance to get familiar with “patching”, which is the particular way VVVV interface structures the instructions to be processed by the computer. After examining the software essentials, the students are shown how to manage and control different media streams in VVVV.

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Learn how to cook using all local ingredients. Class could start at a farmer's market, include basics on local and seasonal grocery shopping and cooking, and end somewhere with access to a few gas or electric stoves. 10% discussion on local food/demo, 45% cooking, 45% eating.