Events
BB’s events are more experiences than simply dining. She creates spaces that invite you to find pleasure, celebration and play – often building community, deep connections to each other, to nature and to food itself. From intimate dinners, multisensory interactive curated spaces to wild banquets, there is always something exciting and powerful about these events.
Next Events:
Winter Festive Feast
Coexist Kitchen, Bristol, UK
19th December, 7pm – 10pm
An explosive small plates banquet to excite all food lovers,
bringing extra celebration and sparkle to the festive period. All plant-based, mostly wild.
This event is all about pleasure, indulgence and sensory explosions.
The Food:
This specially selected sharing feast is designed to give you an abundance of different dishes and treats to try.
Ingredients include foraged mountain and forest herbs, hand gathered Cretan sea salt and single estate Cretan virgin Koroneiki olive oil.
Sample of menu:
Greek aubergines slow roasted with tomatoes, olive oil, cinnamon, roast orange peel, fig leaf, crumbled fermented cashew feta
Lemon roast potatoes with pine and olive leaves
Rock samphire pesto
Roasted mushroom caps with chestnut cheese and pickled grape hyacinth bulbs
Greek olives with preserved rock samphire
Sea water fermented red cabbage with sunflower seed cream and poppyseed and olive puree.
Fresh rocket and wild greens with roasted beetroot, grape molasses and fermented beet stems.
Filo pies with cultured blue pine nut cheese and caramelised shallots in fig syrup
There will be more dishes, drinks included and surprises! – But feel free to BYOB
£34 per person – Profit to Esims For Gaza
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An Evening of Xmas Joy with Pasha Finn
Original folk & some festive classics, with winter canapés
St James Wine Vaults, Bath, UK
19th December, 8pm – 10.30pm
Join Pasha Finn and Chef BB for an evening of joy and festive sparkle with live folk music, delicious winter snacks and candles.
St James Wine Vaults is the perfect pub to celebrate Xmas with its array of wines and cosy atmosphere. Sip on wine, and enjoy exciting new flavours of foraged ingredients and winter tastes.
Pasha Finn & The Ellipsis is a folk band based around Bristol & Bath and they have played all over the UK.
Pasha is a contemporary singer songwriter with subtly gentle vocals and a soft, intricate finger picking style
£15 per person
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Radical Healing Feast: For Survivors of Sexual Violence
A mini course and feast celebrating healing foods, plants and processes that support our resilience
This day will introduce you to plants and foods that help take care of our bodies and mental health (especially if we have been through trauma).
We will look at:
Basic plant properties and medicinal herbal teas for mental health and nervous system Introduction to wild food/foraging plant identification (including a short walk)
Making a ferment to take home
Cooking and preparing food and learning about flavour combinations (including making different pestos and flatbreads)
Thinking about what food or plants our bodies need
A shared feast
All food is plant-based
Sometimes we can feel powerless in recovering and responding to trauma and chaos but gaining knowledge about and relationship to plants can give us more power, grounding and control in our recovery.
In times of many injustices, suffering and oppression we will gather to explore where we can find trust, connection and healing in plants and food around us.
3.30pm to 8.30pm Coexist Community Kitchen, Easton
This event is specifically for survivors of sexual violence
£ Free – (Recovery Shouldn’t Be A Luxury)
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Vegan Cookery Corse: Flavour Explosions
This course will explore the different elements of curating flavour combinations and textures to build exciting plates.
We will look at different processes and cooking bases to fuel ideas and inspiration and encourage experimentation. It hopes to challenge you to move you away from set recipes and into intuitive cooking and play; a different kind of cooking course.
8th January 4pm- 9.30pm | Coexist Kitchen, Bristol, UK
Covering:
Nut and plant cheese (and cream sauce bases)
Pestos (including sun-dried tomato, sage and walnut pesto)
Rich and deep sauces (including greek and mexican influences)
Simple ways to flavour and prepare vegetables (and fresh herbs)
We will learn about different ways to prepare and cook food and then eat a shared feast from all the different dishes we have prepared.
Course level: This course is suitable for any lover of food and all level of skill and knowledge (including passionate home cooks , chefs and professionals looking for new inspiration and those with little or no experience in cooking)
If buying this for a Xmas gift please specify so you can receive a gift voucher version of the ticket.
£64 per person
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PAST Events:
Secret Autumn Celebration Feast
A very small and intimate feast in Paris, celebrating the beginning of Autumn
Paris, France
5th October, 8pm
This specially selected plates menu is designed to give you an abundance of different dishes and treats to try.
Ingredients include foraged mountain, coastal and forest herbs, hand gathered Cretan sea salt and single estate Cretan virgin Koroneiki olive oil. Below are some of the tastes to expect on the night. There will be some surprises too.
€27 per person, very limited places
To request booking email contact.bbskitchen@gmail.com
Details of venue given after booking
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ANTI / DOOMED FEAST
This feast invites you to think about the food itself and its origins, culture, history and links to magic and medicine
UGLY DUCK 13.10.23
7pm – 9.30pm
An intimate feast designed to feed you with vitality, connection, power and resilience. Offerings of different dishes and treats intuitively prepared with foraged ingredients, ferments and medicinal plants that are connected to healing, resistance and queerness – An antidote to doom. All plant-based. .
Ingredients include foraged mountain, coastal, medow and forest herbs from the UK and Crete and hand gathered Cretan sea salt. Below are some of the tastes to expect on the night. There will be some suprises too.
£25 per person, limited places
To Book: https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/anti-doomed-feast/
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Autumn Celebration Feast
An intimate feast in Bristol, celebrating the beginning of Autumn
Coexist Kitchen, Bristol, UK
16th October, 7pm
This specially selected menu is designed to give you an abundance of different dishes and treats to try.
Eight main dishes and some suprise canapés and treats.
Ingredients include foraged mountain, coastal and forest herbs from the UK and Crete and hand gathered Cretan sea salt. Below are some of the tastes to expect on the night. There will be some suprises too.
£43 per person, limited places
To request booking email contact.bbskitchen@gmail.com