Screening includes:
Magueyes - Rubén Gámez, 1962, Mexico, 9 min
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana - Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, 1990, USA, 31 min
Spices move through trade, theft, and travel. Spiciness also catalyzes change on both culinary and cultural levels, and can represent moments/acts of resistance and the individuals who rise to occasions calling for liberation. Join Cookbook Lookbook for spicy installation, a double-feature screening of Magueyes (directed by Ruben Gámez) and Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (directed by Les Blank), followed by casual tableside conversation.
CookBook LookBook is an artist collective that explores storytelling through food. We organize community events and installations across the U.S. with a focus on SPICE this year. In 2023, we were supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 2025, our inaugural publication was acquired by the Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Melisa Gerecci will be in attendance, along with select members participating virtually. $8 screening!
Agenda:
6-6:15pm - Explore the installation
6:15pm - Screening starts at 6:15pm,
Dinner” convo to start at 7pm, event wraps by 8p.
Los Magueyes is a Mexican experimental film without humans: agaves are the only protagonists of a cruel and ruthless battle. In this short film, war dialogues with the power of cinematographic representation, and landscape is far more than a passive backdrop.
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana is a mouth-watering exploration of the cooking and other enthusiasms of French-speaking Louisiana. Features tangy music, and food by Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, and other greats.