Event

A Little Romance

Discuss stories related to love, romance, sex and beauty from around the world and through ages as seen in LACMA's permanent collection. Then, prepare a scintillating meal using aphrodisiacs that Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, would approve of. ($110 includes museum admission, tour, all ingredients, cooking instruction, recipes and wine. Does not include museum parking.)

Please note that through this class meets at LACMA it is not LACMA organized.

ABOUT ARTBITES:
Maite Gomez-Rejon has a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Grande Diplome from the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Since 1995 Maite has worked in the education departments of such renowned museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, LACMA and the Getty Villa; and has worked as a private chef and caterer. In 2007, Maite founded ArtBites, art and culinary history combined with hands-on cooking instruction, which she teaches at museums across the country. Maite has been a guest on the Today Show, featured in Food & Wine magazine and interviewed on NPR's Splendid Table. Her blog, Cooking Art History, appears in The Huffington Post.