Join us at Essex Market on 10/22 for the fall edition of our Talk & Taste series: Pinch of Us with Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space and The Immigrant Artist Biennial. 

A hands-on workshop series led by multidisciplinary artist LuLu Meng and collaborators, Pinch of Us is more than a cooking class: the project will transform the Essex Kitchen into a communal studio for the 2026 edition of The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Identity Card.

Inspired by the Lunar New Year traditions of Meng’s Taiwanese family, the project draws on the dumpling as a symbol of prosperity and care,
centered on collective labor. For this edition of the workshop, curators Anna Khimasia and Sofia Thiệu D’Amico invited artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and Rujuta Rao to share their own dumpling-making traditions with distinct folding techniques, flavors, and histories. The workshop creates space for participants to explore the idea of the multicultural self.