It’s getting nicer and nicer out, and as we inch closer to the baseball season (Phillies opening day tomorrow, home opener Monday), people around here are getting pretty excited. Some, will share that excitement through endless Facebook statuses throughout every game that make you question if you really like them that much anyway, and other will offer food and drink specials. We prefer the latter.
On both opening day and the day of the home opener, The P.O.P.E. (1501 Passyunk Ave.) will be offering $2 shots of Art In The Age ROOT, and ROOT you-call-it-drinks, including the ROOT+Beer Float (which is probably not the same thing as this, but that is pretty awesome). So why not check it out, because if you’re not at the game, where else are you gonna go, Xfinity Live?
During the month of April, The Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild will showcase the ancient tradition of beekeeping, highlighting a variety of modern hives types and beekeeping techniques within the Art in the Age gallery space.
For the exhibition, each hive will be painted by select local artists to represent important milestones in beekeeping history. The Beekeepers Guild and Art in the Age hope to increase awareness of, and interest in, the central role that bees play in our food systems, while promoting community participation in the sustainable conservation of the honeybee.
Jason Cichonski hosts Art in the Age at Ela tonight for a “spirited” five course dinner. And by “spirited,” we mean each course comes with its own signature cocktail made with the local booze makers’ best wares. With Root and bourbon matching a pork belly dish, and pulled beef shanks and smoked marrow going with the George Washington Porter- and Sailor Jerry-spiked Smoked Root, the pairings sound pretty sweet. Seatings are still available for the $65 prix fixe, but reservations are a must.
Tomorrow night, chef Jason Cichonski and Art in the Age will be hosting a “spirited dinner” at Ela (637 S. Third St.). The menu comprises five courses, each matched with a cocktail featuring one of three AITA liquors, ROOT, SNAP and RHUBY.
“I sat down and read the ingredient list on each of the liquors, then figured out what flavors would work well with those ingredients,” Cichonski says of the method behind his multi-course madness. He’s playing with all sorts of components, from foie gras (served as “carpaccio” with baby Spanish octopus and paired with a SNAP/ginger beer drink) to smoked bone marrow (accompanying a beef shank and smoked ROOT drink). Full menu after the jump. The meal runs $65 per person and there are a few seats left; reservations can be made by calling Ela at 267-687-8512.
We recently received a copy of the newly released Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia 1740-1840, edited by Amy R.W. Meyers and Lisa L. Ford. Not only is the book an extremely interesting and educational read, the historic scientific illustrations are incredible!
“Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many monographic studies. However, as the groundbreaking essays in Knowing Nature demonstrate, the examination of nature stimulated not only forms of artistic production traditionally associated with scientific practice of the day, but processes of making not ordinarily linked to science. The often surprisingly intimate connections between and among these creative activities and the objects they engendered are explored through the essays in this book, challenging the hierarchy that is generally assumed to have been at play in the study of nature, from the natural sciences through the fine and decorative arts, and, ultimately, popular and material culture. Indeed, the many ways in which the means of knowing nature were reversed—in which artistic and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the natural world—forms a central theme of this pioneering publication.”
Knowing Nature will soon be on the shelves in our AITA library, so feel free to stop by and take a look!
