American Taste: Black Pepper
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is the author of Four Pounds Flour, a blog dedicated to uncovering the flavors of the past and using them to inspire contemporary cooking. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at the age of 16, cooking over a wood-burning stove. She graduated with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005; for her undergraduate thesis she opened a temporary restaurant/installation that reinterpreted food of the Colonial era for a modern audience.
Lohman moved to New York in 2006 to work as Video Producer for New York Magazine's food blog, Grub Street. She currently works as an educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and curates food-related events at museums around the city.
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This class meets at our Court Street location
American Taste is a series of eight classes deconstructing the most popular flavors of American food. In this class, we'll tackle black pepper.
We'll look at the history of this spice, and discover how it went from being as precious as gold to the ubiquitous plastic shaker on a diner table.
Then, we'll track its production, from life on a vine in Sumatra to tri-color pepper in the spice aisle of Whole Foods.
And lastly, we'll taste five varieties of pepper from different regions, discuss pepper recipes past and present, and analyze the flavor qualities of America's favorite savory spice.
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