Restaurant chefs, home cooks add to Wellfleet Preservation Hall cookbook, plus more arts news
When you can’t hold a food-focused fundraiser, what’s the next choice? How about helping people make some delicious food at home?
The spring Taste of the Town event had been a signature fundraiser for Wellfleet Preservation Hall and its arts and cultural programming. More than 200 food and wine lovers would typically gather to sample what restaurants chefs and farmers had to offer, according to information from the hall.
After it was clear in 2020 that the pandemic would force cancellation of that event, organizers decided to create a community cookbook instead. The result is “Taste of Wellfleet,” which just became available for sale.
More than 90 chefs, farmers, artists, musicians and home cooks shared recipes, as well as stories, according to an announcement from organizers — stories “steeped in family, love, history and sense of place (that) are as rich and satisfying as the recipes themselves. Art, culture and community (are) celebrated through the telling, making and sharing of food.”
The resulting book is 248 pages of 134 recipes, hard-bound with original illustrations by chef Liam Luttrell Rowland, the announcement said. Also included is a timeline of photos of 10 years of concerts, films, lectures, weddings, dances and dinners at Wellfleet Preservation Hall.
The book includes tips from experts like Mac Hay of Mac’s Seafood, Tony Pasquale of Terra Luna, and Michael Ceraldi of Ceraldi restaurant. Recipes include Moby Dick’s Seafood Gumbo, PB Boulangerie’s Lemon Tart, Drummer Cove Clam Dip, Eastham Turnip & Crab Rangoon, Oyster Stew (Two Ways), Grilled Bluefish with Onion Glaze, Martine’s Eggplant Caponata and Wild Beach Rose Hip Mousse Cake.
The “Taste of Wellfleet” cookbook can be purchased at https://www.wellfleetpreservationhall.org/.
Playwright contest entry due Monday
The deadline is Monday, Jan. 31, for Cape Cod playwrights to register their intent to submit their work for Eventide Theatre Company’s revived Kaplan New Playwrights/New Plays Competition. The prize is $1,000 for the winning play and a chance to have the script performed.
The cost to enter is $25, with scholarships available as needed. After registering to participate, playwrights are asked to submit completed full-length work by April 1. Up to 12 finalists will be selected to move to the second round of judging, with the opportunity to present a table reading of their plays.
Finalists will submit their revised plays by Aug. 1, and the winner announced by Sept. 1. In October, two performance readings of the winning play will be held.
Candace Perry, a former Kaplan winner for “Meridian Summer,” and Eventide’s current playwright in residence, is director of the competition, which has been held since 2007 with an interruption because of the pandemic. “It was important to me to see this extraordinary competition revived,” she says. “Unlike most playwriting competitions, the Kaplan offers an ongoing process of feedback and the opportunity to revise the work, which I found invaluable.”
For the registration form and competition details: https://www.eventidearts.org/jeremiah-kaplan-playwright-information/.
Local plays get wider notice
Two Cape Cod-based theater productions that were created during the pandemic and performed virtually have gotten notice from award competitions out in the rest of the world.
► "My COVID Year: 12 Months A Pandemic," which was presented by the Sailor Beware company on the Outer Cape with help from Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, has been nominated for a 2021 Mass Creator Award in the Performance category. Up for that honor is Lower Cape TV, which produced the video broadcast. Winners will be announced at a March 3 event.
The video involved 12 original monologues written and performed by Cape writers and actors about the personal effects of the pandemic in America in 2020. Information on the contest: https://www.masscreatorawards.com/2021finalists.
► "Teacher of the Year" — written, directed and edited by Jim Dalglish and presented by Cotuit Center for the Arts and Eventide Theatre Company — has been selected as an official entry in the London Film Fest International next month.
Originally presented as a weekly series, then combined into one movie, “Teacher of the Year” featured local actors in a video story of a teacher facing the challenges of the early days of COVID-19 spread and the racial reckoning of 2020. The film is a finalist for awards in four categories at the London festival, according to Facebook announcements from Dalglish and the Cotuit center: Best Feature Film, Best Actress (Miranda Jonte), Best Director (Dalglish), and Best Set (which is almost completely virtual).
The festival runs in early February with awards on Feb. 16, the announcement said.
Contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.
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