New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Category: Food & Cooking

  • AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity

    AfroMundo Festival: Afro-Latin Culinary Memory, Power, Resistance & Creativity

    For Afro diasporas, food remains one of the most effective means of resistance, cultural retention, and innovation. Join an exciting culinary discussion with Angelica Mena: Afro-Columbian Chef and Founder of San Francisco’s Sukulentas; and with Chef Suzanne Barr, recipient of a 2021 Social Advocate of the Year Award, featured in acclaimed documentary The Heat: A kitchen (R)evolution (2018).

     

    Tickets are free – and required. Get yours HERE.

  • Bucket Garden Workshop

    Bucket Garden Workshop

    Join Los Jardines Growers to create your own mini garden using buckets and edible seeds. Don’t miss this chance to learn and take some greenery home with you! 🌱

  • 9th Annual FIFA Seed Share

    9th Annual FIFA Seed Share

    Celebrate Food Is Free Albuquerque’s tenth anniversary at the ninth annual seed share! Get free seeds and plants for your garden.

    In 2023 more than 10,000 seeds and 8,000 plants were shared at the Seed Share. You can’t afford to miss it!

  • Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Gracias Citrus Salad

    Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Gracias Citrus Salad

    Kids and families will learn about a food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves.

    This Month’s Book: A Gift of Gracias by Julie Alvarez. This Month’s Recipe: cardamom citrus salad

    Registration is limited! Just a few seats available. Register HERE to snag your spot!

  • Oi Sobagi: Cucumber Kimchi

    Oi Sobagi: Cucumber Kimchi

    To celebrate Korean American Day, come make (vegetarian-friendly) cucumber kimchi and take some home! Ingredients provided. Registration required, sign up HERE.

  • Food Is Free ABQ Volunteer Kickoff

    Food Is Free ABQ Volunteer Kickoff

    Join FIFABQ in fighting hunger locally by harvesting many thousands of pounds of fresh food that would otherwise be wasted in backyard trees, orchards, and farms.

     

    RSVP HERE if attending. Can’t attend, but wish to volunteer or register your own tree to be harvested to feed our neighbors? Learn more and sign up HERE.

  • The Seeds Our Ancestors Planted online film screening

    The Seeds Our Ancestors Planted online film screening

    Join the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine for the virtual premiere of The Seeds Our Ancestors Planted, a short film that follows Arizona high-school student Kai Begay as he learns about a plant-based diet and joins a growing food renaissance across Navajo Nation.

    A panel discussion will follow featuring filmmakers, producers, and local food champions who were featured in and created the film.

    Register HERE for YouTube information.

  • Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Bread

    Junior Foodies Kids’ Cooking Club: Bread

    Kids and families will learn about a food, then join in a tasting or prepare the food themselves. The theme for November is delicious, aromatic fresh bread!

    This Month’s Book: Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris. This Month’s Recipe: homemade bread

    Registration is limited! Just a few seats available. Register HERE to snag your spot!

  • Big Book of Hatch Chile demo and signing

    Big Book of Hatch Chile demo and signing

    Have you got a freezer full of green chile? Bookworks is here to help! Join in at a cooking demo and book signing for the new cookbook The Big Book of Hatch Chile by Kelley Cleary Coffeen.

  • Vegan Ethiopian Cooking Class

    Vegan Ethiopian Cooking Class

    Learn how to cook Ethiopian vegan food with Chef Seble Yemenu of Clay Pot Ethiopian Cuisine! Class is $30 sliding scale.

    Registration required.

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