Women Who Travel, Healthyish, and Future of Women invite you to join us for a morning of delicious food and candid conversation with some of our favorite women in NYC.
We are thrilled to be teaming up with Women Who Travel and Healthyish to host our next NYC breakfast all about travel.
We spoke with a kimono designer, a rice conservationist, an oriental medicine practitioner, a chef, and a photographer about preserving local culture. We learned how Risa uses this 200-year-old Japanese pattern to design fabrics for kimonos. (Full Tokyo breakfast recap here!)
Jenny Kwak has been turning New Yorkers on to Korean food for 25 years. In 1992, she began serving the cuisine in the East Village at her first restaurant, Dok Suni’s, teaching guests about the flavors she’d grown up with. Her mother, Myung Ja Kwak, shared cooking duties. Jenny wrote “Dok Suni: Recipes From My Mother’s Korean Kitchen,” which was one of the few Korean cookbooks in English when it came out, in 1998. At her second restaurant, Do Hwa, she and her mother led customers deeper into unfamiliar ground. Each of the restaurants stayed open for about two decades, a long time in New York. What Ms. Kwak is doing in Park Slope isn’t all that different from what she has done all her career, except that by now South Korean comfort food has become comfort food for New York in general. For the past twenty years, Haenyeo women have always been an inspiration to Jenny and Terrence Segura, co-owner and partner. Her previous restaurants, Dok Suni's and Do Hwa, were owned by her mother who cooked and operated with a brigade of “strong women” who are fierce cooks! Haenyeo Restaurant further pays contribute to these women in the kitchen and also to the women who risk their lives free diving for the ocean goods on Jeju island. Haenyeo women, to her, are a reminder that without "iron-will" and the courage to face the difficult tasks in your daily life, you cannot survive.
Jenny will treat us to a delicious breakfast:
Mandu (Homemade dumplings)
Geyran jjim (Steamed egg casserole) (gf)
Hobak Buchim (Squash pancake)
Gogi Jun (Korean meatballs and bacon) (gf)
Denjang Chigae (Savoy cabbage miso soup with clams) (gf)
Barley rice (gf)
Toasted Corn Tea (gf)
Vegan option will be available.
Inspired by Jenny's travels from Korea, we'll speak with a panel of women who are also exploring the world through travel: join us for a conversation about women in the outdoors.
The outdoors has long been the domain of white, cis able-bodied men, and has often felt intimidating or inaccessible to those who don’t meet that description. Thankfully, there are plenty of women out there who are working to change that—and are succeeding, too. We’ll gather for a conversation with a couple of the women working to make the outdoors space feel more accessible.
Shelma is the founder of Flash Foxy and the Women’s Climbing Festival. Shelma is a current Board Member of the Access Fund and in 2017, she was named one of 40 women who’ve made the biggest impact in the outdoor world by Outside Magazine. A leader in our community, she has written, spoken and presented on the importance of creating a climbing community that reflects and welcomes everyone who identifies as a climber. Shelma has a M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA. Raised in California but currently based in Brooklyn, Shelma can often be found plugging widgets into horizontal cracks at the Gunks or getting scared on granite highballs in Bishop.
Sarah L. Knapp is the Founder & Director of OutdoorFest, a community platform to connect urban dwellers to outdoor recreation in cities. Through their signature festival and monthly Mappy Hours, OutdoorFest is able to reach urban dwellers in over 10 cities in North America. Knapp is also the owner and publisher to offMetro, a green travel resource for urban dwellers wanting to get out of town, car optional.
Her love for adventure has brought her to the summit of Africa, the countryside of Belarus and the ski slopes of Patagonia. She believes that the best way to explore a city is by bike and the best place to get know someone is in the outside.