mercedes golip

Caracas-born culinary artist and self-taught chef Mercedes Golip remembers being a picky eater as a child. Now, her life revolves around experimenting with food. Years after she and her husband immigrated to Miami, they moved to NYC where her evolving curiosity for food was met with an abundance of CSA vegetables. Longing for food from home inspired her to recreate traditional Venezuelan dishes using ingredients grown in New York, but she wondered, is this still Venezuelan food?—a weighty question amidst the political turmoil & dire food shortages back home, and an anti-immigrant administration leading the US. Food has been the question and the answer, prompting Mercedes to share her food culture through pop-up dinners, culinary classes and cooking demos that explore questions of authenticity and creativity.

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Tell the truth — do you know how to make arepas from scratch? Or know the difference between white and yellow corn? The kids at The Dynamite Shop do.

On this week’s bonus episode, we go behind the scenes at this week-long culinary summer camp and after-school program in Brooklyn that’s calling itself “Home Ec 2.0”.

Back in episode 9, "Youth," we talked about a number of organizations, like Seed Life Skills, taking on staid home economics curriculums. With The Dynamite Shop, co-founders Dana Bowen and Sara Kate Gillingham want to provide teens and 'tweens with the basic life skills every adult should have.

According to Bowen and Gillingham, food is one of the easiest ways to connect kids to the larger community around them. That's why The Dynamite Shop invites chefs and passionate home cooks from around the world to broaden the kids’ culinary horizons, not only by teaching them to make delicious dishes, but by engaging them in conversations about food history, food traditions... and the best way to make naturally-dyed rainbow arepas.

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Mariana and Diego are back in a new year, with a new season and new friends! Venezuelan politics have invaded Latin America and continue to shock hispanics across the U.S. But the country has so much to offer, particularly in human talent. Our three guests, all Veneuzelan, are an example of this. They embody creativity, style and risktaking latinos in NYC. Mercedes Golip is a foodstylist and coolhunter (like our ver own hostess!) currently working in marketing for the New York Times, Mariana Martin Capriles is a musician with a passion for full energy beats (she goes by MPEACH) and her husband is a former sou chef at Cosme who reinvented himself with a new hallacas based concept! Todos somos Venezuela!

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