UK The last edition of the Mixed Sessions at The Baldwin Gallery of 2017, our Winter Delight on 9th December!!! It was perfectly as we expected… cosy and intimate, sweet and delicious, warm and happy. I have to say that it was challenging this month, December, with busy schedules, lazy weather, less rhythm. However, while we
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UK On the way to the end of 2017. Time to start reviewing ingredients, remembering the best moments. Oh, yeah, and prep for last – but NEVER LEAST – feast of the year. I can’t help but to feel extremely thankful and grateful for witnessing the growth of such a busy kitchen!!!! By kitchen I
UK I thought about sharing with you some thoughts and ingredients behind the Cooknst kitchen. So I’ll begin with a question that very often I hear when pitching the project – well, we are a startup in early stages, and I am in that moment of bringing more people to the table. The question is:
UK Every time I open a Mixed Session I get nervous. When I kick off the evening, I go back to the memories of the creative process. The theme, the cook, the venue, the artist, the menu, the drinks, the design, the soundtrack… It takes a a lot of prep and a few steps until we
Brazil As almost anywhere around the world, Brazil has its local Masterchef version. A new season finished recently, and a well-known young chef reflected upon the competition in TV shows and what it means to cook and eat together in real life. I don’t own a television for more than 3 years, but before that, on
Brazil I came here from England for my brother’s wedding. I am a bride’s maid, and there is, of course, a dress code. Playing around with clothes for all the occasions around the wedding made me think about Cooknst pop up events and dinner parties. Since the first edition of the Mixed Sessions, our seasonal
UK/Spain It’s not difficult to genuinely develop ‘a thing’ for the Spanish tortilla. It’s anywhere and everywhere, from the good, bad or just self-called ‘tapas bar’ around the world to the authentic ones in the vibrant Spain. Not so rarely this dish finds a place at our homely kitchen through the idea that it is
UK I’ve always been, let’s say, a colourful person. Colours represent a lot of my optimistic and full of energy nature. And I find ways to express this in my cooking and hosting dinner parties without losing sight of elegancy. My plates, for example, are ceramic white with cute dancing skulls on the side, reflecting
From UK Our FIRST EVER NORWICH event. Our FIRST EVER IN-HOUSE experience. Our FIRST EVER 100 foodfriends moment. It’s the beginning of a new chapter for Cooknst as a company with a diverse set of experiences and products connected to bring people together through the passion for food, art and culture!!! Yes, WE DID IT! We prepared a special event for a
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Think a crowd wrapped around a journey to a place where music flows intensively and beautifully through veins, skin and muscles. Think bowls and bowls of patatas bravas, asparagus with jamón quickly wiped of the table, fresh gaspacho, shrimp rice with saffron especially brought from Spain, an orange bliss to the ice cream, a chocolate