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Member Magazine FEB 2018 Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom KQED Perks SF Tribal and Textile Art Show The San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art Show is celebrating its 34th year, February 8–11, at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. The show brings together collectors, designers and art aficionados for a celebration of global ethnographic arts, including work by tribal cultures and indigenous peoples of the Americas, Asia, Oceania, Australia, Polynesia, the Middle East and Africa. This year also features a special exhibition of new works by Australian Aboriginal artists. KQED members receive 50% off admission when you present a current KQED MemberCard at the box office. For more info, visit sanfranciscotribalandtextileartshow.com. Two-for-One Tickets to PHOTOFAIRS Don’t miss PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco — the cutting-edge contemporary art fair dedicated to the photographic medium — returning to Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion February 22–25. The fair’s international focus and boutique curation create an excellent environment for discovering and collecting innovative works of art. KQED Members enjoy a special 2-for-1 ticket offer using the promotional code KQED2FOR1. For tickets, visit photofairs.org. Cinequest Film and VR Festival Voted the Best Film Festival by USA Today readers, Cinequest Film & VR Festival is a celebration of creativity and innovation. Cinequest’s impact comes through the discovery of the best new films, connection with fabulous people at events and parties, inspiration from legends, immersion in virtual reality and celebration of art, technology and each other. Running February 27–March 11 in downtown San Jose and Redwood City theaters, Cinequest presents more than 100 world and U.S. premieres by 700 participating artists and innovators from 50 countries. KQED members can purchase a Mavericks Pass at a discounted rate of $199 using the code KQEDMAV. For tickets, visit cinequest.org. Photos (top to bottom): courtesy Mark A. Johnson; Les Filles du Calvaire; courtesy Cinequest / Mike Gendimenico. On Q February 2018 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Journey Into Southwestern China on Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom One of the Bay Area’s best-loved chefs is back for a new Yan has spent his career promoting Chinese cuisine. adventure! Martin Yan returns to KQED with the new Born in Guangzhou in southern China, Yan is a second- series Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom, through which he’ll generation “culinarian,” who was first inspired by his explore the local flavors of Chengdu — the capital of mother in the tiny kitchen of their family restaurant. After southwestern China’s Sichuan province. receiving his formal restaurant training in Hong Kong, Yan Recognized as a UNESCO City of Gastronomy immigrated to Calgary, Canada, where, on one snowy day, in 2010, Chengdu is brimming with delicious dishes he was asked to appear on a news program to demonstrate and snacks on every street. Watch as Yan uncovers the Chinese cooking. The rest, as they say, is television history. traditions, places and people at the heart of Chengdu’s Premiering in 1982, Yan Can Cook grew to become thriving food scenes, from attending a bamboo banquet one of the most popular cooking programs on public to visiting a few of the city’s estimated 30,000 hot pot television, both in North America and on the global stage. restaurants. Yan has hosted more than 1,500 episodes of Yan Can Cook, broadcast in over 50 countries. The series has twice won the Yan goes beyond Chengdu’s typical Sichuan classics — such as Mapo Tofu, Kung Pao Chicken and Ganbian James Beard Award for Best Food Documentary Show. Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ Sijidou (dry stir-fried green beans) — and journeys deep KQED Presents is proud to represent Yan Can Cook: into the hidden corners of the region’s cuisine to discover Spice Kingdom nationally, which will be distributed via the rich cultural and culinary traditions of southwestern American Public Television in Spring 2018. China. In 13 episodes, Yan takes viewers throughout the Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom premieres Spice Kingdom and then shows them how to create dishes Wednesday, February 14, at 7pm on KQED 9. based on what he’s learned. And no excuses for not trying out these recipes in your own kitchen because if “Yan Can Cook, So Can You!” Photos (cover; inside): courtesy Yan Can Cook. Photos (cover; inside): courtesy Yan Join Martin Yan and PBS Food for Chinese New Year The Year of the Dog kicks off Friday, February 16! No Chinese New Year is complete without KQED.org a home-cooked feast, and this year, Martin Yan and PBS Food are teaming up to bring the best to your table. Check pbs.org/food for traditional recipes and an instructional video leading up to Chinese New Year. 3 Food Tanya Holland’s Vegetarian Dirty Rice Yield: 6-8 servings 1-1/2 cups basmati rice 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 green onion, finely chopped 1 green bell pepper, diced Master the Secrets 1 red bell pepper, diced 1 heaping tablespoon minced garlic of Celebrity Chefs 1 tablespoon chopped jalapeño chile 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce KQED invites you into the kitchens of than just a place where we live — it’s 2 tablespoons tamari or soy sauce award-winning Bay Area chefs with our home now, and we can’t imagine 2 bay leaves Bay Area Bites’ new Celebrity Chefs living anywhere else. People say that 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme series, featuring video and step-by-step I’ve changed West Oakland, but the 1 tablespoon Creole spice photos of local chefs preparing their truth is, West Oakland has changed 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper signature dishes. Impress your friends me,” says Holland. 1 teaspoon coarse salt and family with these tried-and true Brown Sugar Kitchen recently 2 cups fresh spinach leaves recipes for mouthwatering dishes and earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand and Fresh chopped Italian parsley for garnish learn techniques straight from the is currently expanding to new locations masters. in uptown Oakland and San Francisco’s In a large bowl, cover rice with cold water. The series kicks off with Tanya Ferry Building. Stir the rice and drain. Repeat this process 5 Holland, chef-owner of the celebrated A season 15 Top Chef contender to 6 times until water runs clear. In a medium Oakland soul food restaurant Brown and member of the prestigious Les saucepan, add washed rice and cover with enough Sugar Kitchen. Known for her Dames d’Escoffier, Holland will water to measure 1 inch above rice. Bring to a inventive take on modern soul food as encourage you to get into the kitchen boil, then simmer, partially covered until just well as for traditional comfort classics, to create memorable experiences done, about 20 minutes; do not overcook. In Holland is committed to supporting around the table with family and a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat the her community by hiring locally, friends. oil. Add the onion, peppers, garlic and chile training aspiring chefs, and purchasing Learn how to make Holland’s and cook, stirring, until vegetables are tender, coffee, produce and wine from famous Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie, about 10 minutes. Add Worcestershire sauce and Oakland producers. Shrimp and Grits, Fried Chicken and cooked rice and heat through, stirring until rice is “Brown Sugar Kitchen has become Waffles, Dirty Vegetarian Rice and coated with sauce. Add bay leaves, thyme, Creole kqed.org/celebritychefs more than just a restaurant, it’s a more at . spice, pepper and salt and stir. Add spinach. community. West Oakland is more Lower heat. Cover and cook for another 15 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings. Garnish 4 with parsley. Serve immediately. On Q February 2018 Arts KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Arts’ New Music Editor Will Pep Up Your Playlists Meet Nastia Voynovskaya, KQED Arts’ new music editor. Prior Mistah F.A.B., Saturn Rising, King Woman and to joining KQED, Voynovskaya was the music editor at East Bay Brass Liberation Orchestra have been some of my Express, and has written for VICE, the San Francisco Chronicle, favorite interviews. SFMOMA Open Space, Bandcamp and more. She also served as the online editor for Hi-Fructose magazine and arts editor for Who’s your dream interview and why? The Daily Californian at the University of California at Berkeley. Rihanna. I love her music, her confidence, her fashion sense Voynovskaya graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 2012, with a B.A. and her business sense. Also, Björk and Missy Elliott. in comparative literature. How many shows do you see on average every week? What What were your earliest experiences writing about music and are some highlights from the past year? Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ when did it click that you wanted to do it professionally? I’d say anywhere between one and three shows a week. The The first piece I ever published was for a student fashion best performances I saw all year were Solange — at FYF Fest, magazine at U.C. Berkeley; it was about a Lil B’s outfit at a Pack Outside Lands and the Greek Theatre — Björk and Missy concert in 2008. Not long after, I joined the student newspaper, Elliott at FYF, Gucci Mane at the Warfield and Moses Sumney The Daily Cal, where I was assigned to cover Noise Pop in 2010. at Great American Music Hall. Since then, I’ve pretty much been addicted — though music writing became my main beat in 2015, when I became music What are your favorite venues in the Bay Area? editor at East Bay Express. Once I started writing predominantly Fox Theatre and Great American Music Hall for moving, about music, it clicked for me that my professional world could near-spiritual experiences; Elbo Room, the Legionnaire Saloon, merge with what I do for fun, which is go to shows.