Peralta Hacienda: Cooking with fire

Friends of Peralt... Tue, 8 Jun at 12:11am
Stir Fry

Cooking with Fire is Peralta Hacienda's annual multicultural campfire cookout! Enjoy fun, informative cooking demonstrations and learn about food in Fruitvale throughout the centuries - from native Ohlone food to treats cooked on site from our urban garden.

Light a fire with steel and flint, and then prepare your own timeline of treats with anthropologist Wells Twombly. You’ll make Ohlone seedcakes, open-fire tortillas, and Gold Rush-era hoe-cakes - cooked on the top of a garden hoe!

Also learn about the cooking traditions of Oakland's Mien residents, who will cook traditional foods - including ingredients grown in Peralta Hacienda's community garden.

Stay to explore the gardens, the park, and the Peralta House Museum of History and Community. Guided tours will explain the rich legacy of food shaping California history. Tours include the current special exhibit "Embroidering Our Lives: Mien Women at Peralta Hacienda," a beautiful text, photography, and craft exhibit, featuring hand-made works by some of the same people who will be serving you food!

Please RSVP for tours. Call (510) 532-9142 or visit our website for details.

About Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park is a Fruitvale-based non-profit that runs the Peralta House Museum and provides school field trips, after-school and summer programs, volunteer opportunities, community parties and cultural events. The mission of Friends is to promote understanding, historical healing and community amid change and diversity, and to give voice to the many cultures that have created – and are still transforming – California. The park was once the headquarters of the 45,000-acre Rancho San Antonio, and the first European building in the East Bay. Today, the Peralta House Museum is full of five-senses exhibits about Fruitvale history. Pay a visit, and leave your story!