Principles of Pad Thai

with Daniel Pravit Fethke

Thursday, July 25, 2024, 4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

Tuition: $90

This workshop will conclude with a group meal of your collective making.

Principles of Pad Thai is a hands-on workshop where participants will learn the ins and outs of how to make this famous Thai dish. We will make Pad Thai from scratch in an outdoor cooking environment alongside the Ox-Bow Lagoon, accompanied by a food-historical lecture and discussion of the political and cultural roots that bring this storied recipe to our plates. All ingredients will be provided.

Daniel Pravit Fethke is a Thai-American interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, educator, and activist. He regularly facilitates workshops, cooking classes, and creative gatherings that center food and recipes as ways to explore identity and culture. He has exhibited work internationally in Bangkok, Berlin, Barcelona, and New York City, having shown at the Yale School of Art, Recess Art Space, and the Knockdown Center. Daniel has published food-based writing in the Berlin-based Soft Eis Magazine, as well as with Commercial Type's online catalog. He co-founded the mutual aid food pop-up Angry Papaya, and has hosted workshops at the CUNY Graduate Center as well as the Ox-Bow School of Art. Daniel received his BA in Modern Culture & Media Studies from Brown University in 2015. He recently published an autobiographical Thai-American cookbook through Pratt Institute, where he also received his MFA in Integrated Practices in 2023. He currently lives and works in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Images courtesy of the artist.