Hands-on foody fun for the whole family. A drop-in workshop with the creators of Chews Your Own Tasty Adventure.
Chews Your Own Tasty Adventure is a cookbook with a difference – where you choose the ingredients one by one to find out what recipe you end up with. And there’s science, history, and information on cultural celebrations inside too.
Meet its creators, Dr Sai Pathmanathan and Lucia Vinti, in this interactive workshop all about the science and art of cooking and baking. Plus, design your own comical food character. Come get stuck in…
Free with your Entry ticket. Drop in anytime between 10:30am–12:30pm and 2–4pm.
Ideal for 4-11 year olds and their grownups. Adventurous littler ones also welcome.
About Dr Sai Pathmanathan
Sai used to be a neuroscientist but moved into science communication and education because she loved creatively communicating science to all. Sai often combines wordplay, comical imagery and humour into her workshops and resources to engage young people with science, especially around the topics of food, health and the environment. She released her first book with Bloomsbury in February 2021, Utterly Jarvellous: 50 Primary Science Activities You Can Do In A Jar, helping educators eliminate single-use plastic from hands-on science activities (which won the Teach Primary STEM award). In June 2023 she released Chews Your Own Tasty Adventure with Faber: a cookbook with a difference, all about the science and history of different ingredients and how to ‘chews’ them to create celebratory dishes from all over the world.
About Lucia Vinti
Lucia Vinti is a London based illustrator and creative who makes work about people, places, food and culture. Working primarily by hand using pencil, paint and collage, Lucia creates playful and expressive illustrations that add a sense of personality and joyfulness to a wide range of commissions and clients, spanning branding, editorial, corporate, publishing and children’s books. Lucia studied illustration at the University of Brighton and loves riding at the front of double decker buses, finding ancient artefacts with funny faces in museums and drawing in her sketchbook in sunny cities. She hopes that her work can bring a little bit of joy to the every day. When she’s not scribbling away in her studio, Lucia runs workshops, teaches illustration and draws live portraits at community and brand events.