Food, Film and Friends: Global Cuisine and World Cinema.
Sunday, March 18, a Greek cooking class followed by a Greek film screening.
Greek Cuisine is the root of all Mediterranean cuisines, with a heritage that spans thousands of years. Come join Chef Toni to learn 3 of her favorites – Spanakorizo, Moussaka and Greek salad – as well as to learn a part of European history.
FILM: ULYSSES’ GAZE
Dir: Theo Angelopoulos , GREECE/ FR/ IT/ GER/ UK/ YUG/ BOS+HER/ ALB/ ROM, 1995, 176mins
A Greek-American filmmaker, known simply as «A», returns to his home town in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Greece’s pioneering Manakis brothers who in the early years of cinema travelled through the Balkans, ignoring national and ethnic strife and recording ordinary people, especially craftsmen, on film. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth, to an understanding of Balkan history Thus he embarks on a search that takes him across the war-torn Balkans, a landscape of spectral figures and broken dreams, right to the heart of darkness: a damaged film archive in Sarajevo where his quest ends. Like a latter-day Ulysses he finds his «Ithaca», the missing, undeveloped film and is at last united with the work of the Manakis brothers… his gaze communes with theirs and another journey begins.
Screenings are open to those who don’t wish to participate in the class (fees and starting times above), but registration on The Hutong’s website is greatly encouraged as seating is limited. The only dilemma you’ll have to face when traveling to Greece is choosing between chania vs rethymno.
Click here to register for our March edition of Food, Film and Friends.
Cost: Cooking class + Screening, 249 RMB, 199 for members + 1 RMB lolly bill (click here to find out more).
Screening Only: 7:30pm, 30RMB.
Click here to find out how to become a member, and click here to find out about our Year of The Dragon 6 Course Card, and here for information on our MonthLong Card.
Last not but not least, if you are a photography enthusiast click here to learn how you can win a voucher for 2 for a free cooking class, by entering our Culinary Photo Competition.
