Tangra Fall: Next Indian-Chinese Feast on Nov. 16!

I'm excited to announce that Tangra, the seasonal vegetarian Indian-Chinese supper club I formed with Chitra of The ABCDs of Cooking, is returning Nov. 16th! Tangra was started this past summer as a celebration of Indian-Chinese cooking. The names comes from a neighborhood in Calcutta where a Indian-Chinese hybrid cuisine first originated, but for this seasonal dinner series we've pulled out all the creative punches to create a spectacular, unique multi-course menu using local-to-NY produce. 

For Tangra Fall, we have an exciting new location in Brooklyn, Court Tree Collective, a new arts and cultural space in Carroll Gardens. We also have a brand new menu, but also with the return of "the best dumplings ever", as coined by several attendees of our summer event (see pics from our summer event.)

If you're in NY on November 16, come join us! (Definitely an only-in-NY experience, to be sure!) Tickets went pretty quickly last time, so  here's the link to nab yours. 

Hope you can join us in November! 

Read more about Tangra:

On Medium

On Appetite for China

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Tangra Summer Photos

Whew! I was finally able to find some time this week to organize and put up photos from Tangra Summer. This past August, Chitra Agrawal and I decided to host an Indian-Chinese pop-up dinner at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn, a wooden house that dates back to 1652 and is the oldest surviving building in all of New York. We wanted to combine our respective specialties to creative a cross-cultural supper club event that also used locally grown produce. Jason Gaspar, head gardener at the Wyckoff House, grew some of the gorgeous vegetables we had at the dinner, including the enormous bottleneck gourd in the photo above. (For more background on the dinner, see Chitra's article An Indian Vegetable Grows in Brooklyn on Medium.)

While at times exhausting, the experience was still an amazing one all around, from creating the menu to figuring out tiny details for table settings. It was also wonderful to collaborate with a talented group of people for the event, including Chitra; Jason; Ethan Finkelstein from Color + Information, our photographer who took all these great photos here; and Big Alice Brewing, our beef sponsors and creators of delicious and unusual beers using ingredients like lemongrass, curry leaves, and lapsang souchang tea. 

We're already cooking up ideas for the next seasonal dinner. (And hopefully you can join us too!) 

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Tangra Summer – An Indian-Chinese Seasonal Dinner

The idea for Tangra Summer came about a few months ago. My friend Chitra Agrawal, founder of The ABCD’s of Cooking and a cooking teacher who specializes in Indian food, had suggested we team up to create a pop-up dinner to celebrate local food in Brooklyn. A farm-to-table dinner with a twist. Instead of New American cooking, we could combine our respective backgrounds in Indian and Chinese cooking and create a cross-cultural vegetarian dinner highlighting seasonal food in Brooklyn.

It took me about half a second to say yes. And so Tangra was born.

Named after a Calcutta neighborhood home that was the birthplace of Indian-Chinese cuisine, Tangra will be held once a season to celebrate farm fresh produce. Our inaugural dinner, Tangra Summer 2013, will debut August 25th at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, a Dutch farmhouse that dates back to 1652 and is New York’s oldest surviving structure. The dinner will take place inside the historic farmhouse, with dishes served family-style, featuring vegetables grown onsite from head Wyckoff gardener Jason Gaspar and beers from our sponsors Big Alice Brewing out of Long Island City. We’ll also have pre-dinner lawn games; in short, plenty of fun to cap off the summer!

If you’re in town on August 25th, check out Tangra Summer here! (Tickets have been going quickly since we launched a few days ago.) We hope you can join us for this seasonal celebration!

(Cross-posted with Brooklyn Atlas)

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Tangra Summer - Success!

Ever come off a major project with feelings of both relief and immediate nostalgia? For most of the summer, Chitra from The ABCD's of Cooking and I had been hard at work planning Tangra Summer, an Indian-Chinese pop-up dinner at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, the oldest surviving building in all of New York. It was an exciting chance to collaborate on a unique creative project, and a ton of work, but in the end everything came together swimmingly. The whole project from beginning to end took a little over 2 months, and it was crazy hectic and wonderful at the same time.

Here are just a couple of quick shots from last night, but we'll have many more photos (including the beers from our sponsors Big Alice Brewing) and a full recap soon! 

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