Hatred against the AAPI community has been on the rise lately. The number of hate crimes targeted at Asian Americans increased at an alarming rate from early 2020 through the present. The Cookery has partnered with local baker, Erica Truong, for the fourth activation of Bakers Against Racism, a worldwide bake sale organization that has raised over $2 million for social justice causes. The proceeds from the bake sale will be donated to Asian Hall of Fame (read about their mission here). To purchase the baked goods and for more information please click here.   

Empowering the Diner is a Black women-led food and beverage event centered on collaboration and inclusion in which they bring folx together to discuss, learn, and explore their palate and dining experiences. Empowering the Diner seeks to dismantle colonizer-led perspectives and gatekeeping practices by challenging the status quo through creative, multi-faceted, and BIPOC-led educational and hospitable experiences. The first educational experience will be: Empowering The Diner Through Wine. This will be offered on a virtual platform called Hopin. Empowering the Diner Through Wine will be a four-week experience. This offering will be conducted in four sessions. Each session will include one full bottle of wine, a pairing BIPOC chef's recipe, and feature educational dialogue with a BIPOC wine professional. The fourth and last session will be a celebratory wrap up conversation where you bring together the discussions about what you like, exploration, why wine is interesting, and why diner/guest empowerment is important. You'll talk about how you can continue to use your buying power for your own exploration, but also to combat racist and discriminatory selling practices. Julia will end this first series with a fun discussion and bubbles. With speaker Julia Coney and Chef Cassidy Lewis. $55 for this session only, or $110 for an all-access pass to all four sessions ($80 for BIPOC). Taught on Friday, June 11th, at 8:30 p.m. EST. For more information or to register, please click here.

Empowering the Diner is a Black women-led food and beverage event centered on collaboration and inclusion in which they bring folx together to discuss, learn, and explore their palate and dining experiences. Empowering the Diner seeks to dismantle colonizer-led perspectives and gatekeeping practices by challenging the status quo through creative, multi-faceted, and BIPOC-led educational and hospitable experiences. The first educational experience will be: Empowering The Diner Through Wine. This will be offered on a virtual platform called Hopin. Empowering the Diner Through Wine will be a four-week experience. This offering will be conducted in four sessions. Each session will include one full bottle of wine, a pairing BIPOC chef's recipe, and feature educational dialogue with a BIPOC wine professional. In the third session, you will talk about why you buy and connect to wine beyond taste and agriculture (i.e. producer stories, exploration, pairing, etc.). You'll also address the difficulties BIPOC face when buying wine - accessibility. The focus will be to engage with you about what you are looking for in your wine buying experiences and how you can combat elitism in wine. With speaker Lindsey Williams and Chef Joseph Paire. $55 for this session only, or $110 for an all-access pass to all four sessions ($80 for BIPOC). Taught on Friday, June 4th, at 8:30 p.m. EST. For more information or to register, please click here.

Empowering the Diner is a Black women-led food and beverage event centered on collaboration and inclusion in which they bring folx together to discuss, learn, and explore their palate and dining experiences. Empowering the Diner seeks to dismantle colonizer-led perspectives and gatekeeping practices by challenging the status quo through creative, multi-faceted, and BIPOC-led educational and hospitable experiences. The first educational experience will be: Empowering The Diner Through Wine. This will be offered on a virtual platform called Hopin. Empowering the Diner Through Wine will be a four-week experience. This offering will be conducted in four sessions. Each session will include one full bottle of wine, a pairing BIPOC chef's recipe, and feature educational dialogue with a BIPOC wine professional. The second session will further discuss wine as an agricultural product and touch-on Justin's experience as a Black femme winemaker. You will continue to focus on challenging existing tasing notes and help you develop notes that align with your personal experiences. You will also talk about how you can own what you like and stand strong in that when ordering & buying wine. Speaker will be Justin Trabue and guest chef will be Krystal Mack. $55 for this session only, or $110 for an all-access pass to all four sessions ($80 for BIPOC). Taught on Friday, May 28th, at 8:30 p.m. EST. For more information or to register, please click here

Empowering the Diner is a Black women-led food and beverage event centered on collaboration and inclusion in which they bring folx together to discuss, learn, and explore their palate and dining experiences. Empowering the Diner seeks to dismantle colonizer-led perspectives and gatekeeping practices by challenging the status quo through creative, multi-faceted, and BIPOC-led educational and hospitable experiences. The first educational experience will be: Empowering The Diner Through Wine. This will be offered on a virtual platform called Hopin. Empowering the Diner Through Wine will be a four-week experience. This offering will be conducted in four sessions. Each session will include one full bottle of wine, a pairing BIPOC chef's recipe, and feature educational dialogue with a BIPOC wine professional. The first session will focus on the basics of wine as an agricultural product. You will dismantle colonizer-lead tasting notes together and learn how to let your palate inform your tasting notes. You will also begin to discuss how your palates inform you about what you like and prefer in wine and how to discuss that with a salesperson/somm/server. Speaker will be Amanda Carpenter & guest chef LaGina Lewis. $55 for this session only, or $110 for an all-access pass to all four sessions ($80 for BIPOC). Taught on Friday, May 21st, at 8:30 p.m. EST. For more information or to register, please click here.

Wigle is partnering with Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership to celebrate Picklesburgh, and Pittsburgh Pickles writ large, for a third year. This year's limited release is wrapped in an illustrative label with a King Kong-esque Pickle at the Point. All-day long Wigle will be celebrating the return of Eau De Pickle. Stop by the distillery in the Strip District to pick up your bottle of their newest batch of Eau De Pickle ($34) and enjoy some delicious pickle treats. Enjoy a special pickle-themed cocktail menu featuring Eue De Picklebacks, Bloody Mary's, and a Dirty Pickle Martini. Join Wigle for Pickle Palooza featuring a pickle-themed cocktail menu and App from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. To order and for more information please click here.

While it's been wonderful to see the rise of so many types of bubbly it can be daunting to pick the best one for the right occasion. Jon Daniel will be leading you through three of the most popular styles of bubbly in the market talking about how to pair them and when is the best situation for each style. This information will not only be of help for Mother's Day but all of your celebratory events in the future. As an added bonus each package will include samples from Brix Chocolates, and you will be sampling them with the bubbly. Tickets are $35 and the event will be live starting at 7:00 p.m. To register and for more information please click here.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a guacamole kit, make-your-own fajitas, and more. You can also add margaritas to your celebration. The kit feeds 4 and is $125. Order by emailing [email protected] or calling 202-294-5327.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Urbano's way. Eat, drink, and dance to safely celebrate outdoors. There will be a live band and a DJ, plus food and drink specials. Tickets fo on sale at the door and you must be 21 to enter. Tickets are $5 and the event will be open from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. For more information please click here.

Silverado shares superb Southwestern cuisine daily with elevated ingredients blending favorite flavors of Tex-Mex inspired fare. Dubbed The World’s Greatest Fajitas, the sizzling mix is served with house-made tortillas, available for one, in combinations, and jumbo sizes for two, with Chicken, Steak, or Portobello. For more information and to order please click here.