AMEICO, The First Bite Catering, The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm, and Nutmeg Olive Oil Company are teaming up to help local kids enjoy a summer camp experience at The Silo.
This special culinary event runs from 6-9 on June 16th at AMEICO in New Milford. The evening's flavorful tour includes fresh and tasty appetizers and wine followed by demos, dinner and dessert by Chef Anne McClelland from The First Bite.
Menu – each course to be followed by a demonstration by Chef Anne McClelland
When: June 16th, 2016, 6-9 pm
Where: AMEICO, 29 Church St, New Milford, CT
Price: $60 per person
LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE
Proceeds from the event will benefit The Silo's 'KitchEncounters' Summer Youth Camp Program. The program allows students ages 5-15 to explore the cultures, food, and art of countries associated with conflict and unrest. This unique, community-driven program perpetuates The Silo's mission of “cultivating love of land, food and the arts”.
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One of the exhibitions at Milan Design week which impressed me the most was a very understated one, by the well-chosen name “Subtle”. The theme was paper and it was organized by the Japanese Takeo Paper Co. Especially in our day and age of the computer, in which the art and culture of writing letters has all but vanished, an exhibition about the beauty and uses of paper was quite exhilarating for me.
This year, Michele De Lucchi’s Produzione Privata is celebrating its 25th anniversary. For the celebration, the studio is putting out a limited edition of 25 extra-extra large clear Acquatinta pendants with unique LED bulbing, also designed by De Lucchi. Ameico has secured 3 of these pendants for the US and will be offering them later this year.
Very close to the De Lucchi studio on via Varese is one of Michele’s newest architectural gems, a conference hall in wood made for UniCredit, an Italian banking group. This whole area, very close to the Garibaldi train station, is developing very rapidly and impressively. Italy’s economy is struggling. In this context, it is great to see an area of Milan which is exploding with creative energy and commerce.
We visited Weimar last week, known for Goethe, Schiller and the Bauhaus.
The first school of the Bauhaus was located in Weimar, Germany. The Grand Ducal Saxon Art School was designed by Belgian artist, architect and interior designer Henry Van der Velde, director of the school. Walter Gropius became director of the school in 1919 and renamed it the Bauhaus. In 1925 funding was cut due to a conservative take over of the state parliament and Gropius moved the Bauhaus school to Dessau, Germany. The school was renamed Technical University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and in 1996 changed its name to Bauhaus University Weimar. It is currently a school for design, architecture and urban planning. It is a UNESCO world heritage site.
exterior
the lobby
bust of Walter Gropius
students drawing
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Simple solution to direct water from an old spring fountain at Honen-in.
Gion Morisyo inn keepers
Tofuku-ji moss garden
Ginkaku-ji "silver temple" quartz sand garden
The high priest of Ginkaku-ji would use this sand platform to view the moon, its perfect geometry has been maintained since 1615. The quartz sand of the garden reflects white in the moonlight.
Tea room confections
Shiseido headquarters entrance
The Ginza Graphic Gallery exhibited four premier Japanese graphic designers Shigeo Fukuga, Iko Tanaka, Kazumasa Nagai and Tadanori Yokoo. Each presented how they would orientate text and image within a given space.
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