history of the mouth continues: one pot + cremant + andrew will + mfk fisher = march 29th

the mouth has had a long - super hot - history. our series continues with a tremendous wine fueled homage to mfk fisher at the precious-french-gem CREMANT. winemaker david oldham from andrew will (will) be showing off his newly released vintages and chef brendan mcgill is spending the month re-exploring a piece of writing that has left an indelible mark on his culinary career "the gastronomic me" penned by my favorite culinary siren mfk fisher. expect: four courses of sumptuous MFK inspired fare, four brilliant andrew will wines, a post-modern-cozy space imagined by none other than roy mcmakin and a few snidbits of MFK offered with glasses raised.

$80/person. gratuity not included. location: cremant.
grab a seat here.

*the history of the mouth series has included indulgent explorations of such texts as the work of apicius, the work of brillat savarin, the alice b. toklas cookbook, and a dinner/exhibition with artist jim riswold entitled Bad People Have to Eat Too. people are encouraged to bring their favorite MFK passage or just come and stuff themselves with wine and food.

one pot + alice b. toklas = sept 6

this is the continuation of our “history of the mouth” series with the ever-talented morgan brownlow. so far we have dug into the world of apicius, and the head and belly of brillat-savarin, and strolled through the eating habits of histories most monstrous tyrants with jim riswold – and now we are alighting on the oft overlooked alice b. toklas. what is the point of this series? well morgan and I thought it would be a lovely pursuit to use the table, and the pen, and sometimes the brush and certainly the stove and plate to further understand these warm human monuments that have craftily shaped our cultural relationship to food – they are not chefs – but they have influenced our eating habits perhaps more than the chefs of their day – and so we circle down into the world of alice b. toklas and her-much-more-marqueed-lover-and-life-partner gertrude stein. toklas/stein played host to an entire generation of artists and writers, like some great life giving teat stein/toklas made sure picasso got lunch, hemingway had something other than martinis in his frightful belly, and crazy-eyed braque had a soft place to lay his head (admission: I actually don’t know a thing about braque or his eyes…) . we will have a few guests bestowing gifts on the evening: matthew stadler and stephanie snyder and some special guests from distant lands . (if girl on girl love makes you uncomfortable I suggest you consider a rain check.) - MH

one pot + B.P.H.T.E.T. = august 9

talk about an embarrassment of riches. we have somehow convinced the ever talented and delightfully controversial artist jim riswold to come up from portland and play for an entire month. go to his website - laugh – because his work is funny – and if you are too precious to find the humor then you and i shouldn’t go for walks in the park. jim has made it his neuvo-life work to humanize the oppressors, to deflate the monsters – in a few short words: riswold makes art about bad people. and he is going to hang an entire show called Bad People Have To Eat Too – and morgan brownlow and i are going to throw a decadent dinner party among his rippling images – it will be the food that hitler loved, that mussolini dreamed about, and that ceasar had some poor slave boy rub between his thighs. we will regale you with stories about tyrants and their bellies…

if you can’t make the full sit down - come by the gallery the same night sometime btw 7-11pm for the more casual opening soiree - the rest of us will be sequestered in the back eating of the bad. 1508 11th ave. seattle - MH

one pot + brillat savarin = june 19

“morgan brownlow and the history of the mouth” this series is about morgan investigating the most influential culinary writers/thinkers/personalities throughout the ages. investigating through cooking, through drawing, and through writing – in the end we will be producing and sending out a lovely zine chalk full of his strange musements to all the folks that attend at least one of the dinners. morgan draws beautifully, thinks through food like some kind of demonic force, writes like the priest in blood meridian, and of course cooks like a complete f’cking saint. brillat savarin is on the chopping block on june 19th – his great masterwork the physiology of taste stands among the most influential culinary tombs of all time – and the stunning translation by m.f.k. fisher makes reading the work intensely seductive – “perhaps the greatest literary flirtation of all time”. future “mouth” dinners will include artusi, catherine de medici, james beard, and maybe de sade (if we can make the leap) and a strange midsummer evening with artist jim riswold as we discover why even really bad people need really good food, think one pot with hitler, mao, stalin, etc… check out his site and perhaps it will become more clear.


*morgan brownlow is a stupidly talented chef - famous for putting clarklewis (in portland oregon) on the culinary map - in my mind he is one of the best chefs presently cooking - anywhere. he is also an stupidly talented artist, and a writer of odd, passionate, disturbing verse. - MH 



one pot + apicius = may 22

morgan brownlow is in my mind one of the most talented chefs cooking today – he rose to fame at our little restaurant clarklewis – but before that he worked with some of the most thoughtful and respected culinarians alive. not only is he a storehouse of knowledge on whole animal butchery, the curing of meaty things, and most other things food – he is also a damn talented artist, draughtsman, writer of strangely beautiful verse, and a student of the intricacies of culinary history. we are starting a series of dinners where morgan is going to drop head first down into the world of several vastly influential gourmands, sensualists, and food theorists. apicius, artusi, beard, brillat-savarin, catherine de medici, (sh*t maybe even de sade). each dinner will be a personal exploration of each of these pillars – these people that have informed, shaped as if from clay, the world of the things we love to put into our mouths, the things that make us drool. each dinner will include a hand drawn exploration of each dish and it’s history – a kind of small well-made zine or deconstructed recipe book. the first dinner dives right into ancient rome, and plucks apicius (if that was his name) by his ankle. we are thinking these dinners will be in the $40-50 range – let us know if you want to be on the pre-reserve list…
the dinners will be held at the soon-to-open-capital-hill-gallery “vermillion” and-it-is-pretty. - MH