Ready for some serious spice exploration? Delve into the enchanting world of spice blending with instructor Susan Turner!
She’ll introduce you to our flavor theory and the principles that we use to make the exquisite blends we’re known for. Susan will guide you through tasting different spices and teach you about flavor and aroma. She will demonstrate blending techniques and discuss how attention to details such as texture and color can make a blend sing. And, Susan will share insider knowledge about layering flavor, roasting spices, grinding, sensory analysis, and training your palate.
In the hands-on portion of this class, you’ll make one of Curio’s classic blends plus create a blend of your own from our spice cupboard of over 80 intriguing spices.You’ll head home with Curio's Spice Flavor Wheel, blending recipes, and jars of the two blends you made during class. Join us for this wonder-filled evening! This is a small class, limited to 15 participants. Sign up today to reserve your spot!
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We are so excited to host Sweet Botanical Bakes - whose delicious (and beautiful) confections will be available for purchase and sampling at their pop-up in Curio's Lab on March 15th & 16th!
About Sweet Botanical Bakes:
Sweet Botanical Bakes is a lady-owned small business based in Medford, MA, specializing in delicious, buttery shortbread cookies made with edible flowers. Handcrafted with care, these unique confections are available for nationwide shipping and come in an array of creative flavors like Garden Party, Lemon Lavender, Balsamic Fig Pepitas, and Black Sesame. Gluten-free options are also offered to cater to all cookie lovers.
Passionate about nature and deeply connected to the plants native to New England, Sweet Botanical Bakes is committed to sustainability. To give back to the earth, 5% of all proceeds are donated to local community gardens, Seed Savers Exchange, and United Plant Savers, supporting efforts to protect plant diversity and promote sustainable gardening practices.
Add personality to your clothes while saving the planet! Push back against the throw-away fashion trend, and learn how to give old clothes new life with visible mending.
Visible mending uses many approaches to restore old, used or torn clothing and fabric items. It’s both a creative process, a relaxing and meditative practice, and a way to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability by reducing waste and pollution.
Join us as Catherine Karp leads a workshop, where she will demonstrate how to use embroidery, patching and darning techniques to restore and revive damaged or worn out textiles. Beginners will leave with a sampler including the five basic stitches along with three ways to patch.
Class take home kit includes; a pair of Olympus Brand Sashiko needles, one skein of DMC 6 strand embroidery thread, 1 skein of Sashiko thread, one spool of Perle cotton, one spool of wool, a tapestry needle threader, and a few fabric scraps for mending.
In the class access to all the communal tools and materials; a variety of threads including colorful Sashiko threads, fabric markers, pencils, thimbles, scissors, needles, and plenty of scraps for your mending projects.
Please be sure to wear your good reading glasses.
ALL skill levels welcome!
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Free!
We are so excited to host our friends from Mei Mei Dumplings again - whose delicious dumplings and more will be available for purchase and sampling at their pop-up in Curio's Lab on March 1st! Stop by to sample and also get dumpling packs, swag & cookbooks to take home!
About Mei Mei:
Farm-Focused. Woman-Owned. Mei Mei's unconventional dumpling combinations showcase our love for great New England ingredients along with a pursuit of what tastes delicious. We use pasture-raised meat that is sourced from independent family-farms and source 70% of our produce from the Northeast.
Chef Irene Li co-founded Mei Mei with her siblings in 2012 as a food truck. "Mei Mei” means little sister in Mandarin Chinese and Mei Mei food is an expression of the Li siblings’ favorite childhood eating experiences as Chinese-American kids growing up in Boston. In 2020, Irene teamed up with Babson MBA graduates Alyssa Lee and Annie Campbell to lead the business in its transformation into a Dumpling Factory, Cafe, and Classroom.
Free!
Art by Samira Louise creates one-of-a-kind illustrations designed to offer you a fun, whimsical escape from every day life.
About Samira Louise:
My name is Samira Louise. I’m an illustrator from Massachusetts.
In my artwork I love to depict scenes of tranquillity and relaxation. Life can leave us tightly strung and it’s so important to have an escape. My goal is that someone finds peace in my little mermaid worlds just like I do.
