Staple items include yuca fries, sweet plantains, coconut rice, nacho taro chips, and of course, signature crispy grilled corn arepas. The slow-cooked family recipes blend ingredients and flavors. With a fresh take on Venezuelan dishes, the Pica Pica menu boasts a spirited selection of sweet, savory and spicy dishes centered on four core ingredients: corn, plantains, taro and yuca root. Food traffic has grown significantly since, as they “quickly realized we were servicing a community” flocking to the restaurant for playful spins on Venezuelan classics-all of which happen to be 100% naturally gluten free.
The restaurant’s San Francisco Mission District location opened in 2010 and the Napa location was closed several years later to focus on it. The result? Traditional home-cooked Venezuelan food with “a little bit of spice,” says Vermut, who has been stateside since college. From the very beginning, they were very intentional in creating a hand-crafted menu based on family recipes. What do you love most about your family kitchen?Īdriana Lopez Vermut grew up with a family in the kitchen in Venezuela, including a father who ran two restaurants.īorn out of a love for family time in the kitchen and the opportunity to share little bites of their heritage, Vermut and her father, Leopoldo Lopez Gil, founded Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen in Napa in 2008. The Celiac Community Foundation of Northern California is highlighting regional gluten-free small businesses, how they are supporting the community and how we can support them in turn during the pandemic. It is cocurated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at MCA Chicago, and João Ribas, Curator at MIT List Visual Arts Center.A meal drive has kept this fast-casual restaurant on the front lines This exhibition is co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and MIT List Visual Arts Center. In addition to new work, the exhibition will include Strangers, an in-gallery performance in which two people who have never met before hold a bunting between them for a specific duration.
Her work raises questions about individual versus collective speech in the context of extreme political situations, such as those in 1970s Argentina or present-day Afghanistan, and demonstrates how open communication is a right in some regions of the world and a privilege in others. Having grown up in Argentina, Pica is attracted to the limits and failures of language and concerned with what it means to have a platform to speak out from. Her work is optimistic in its reflection of moments of shared experience, often incorporating signifiers of celebration and communal gatherings such as fiesta lights, flags and banners, confetti, and rainbows. She is particularly interested in the role of the artist in conveying messages to audiences and the translation of thought to action, idea to object. Using simple materials such as photocopies, lightbulbs, drinking glasses, beer bottles, bunting, cardboard, and other found materials, Pica creates work that is formally beautiful and conceptually rigorous while addressing fundamental issues of communication-such as the acts of delivering and receiving messages (verbal or nonverbal) and the various forms these exchanges may take. The MCA exhibition Amalia Pica is the artist's first major solo museum show in the United States and includes approximately 15 of her most significant works from the last seven years, in addition to new commissions. Installation view, Art Basel: Statements, 2012 Photo: Peter Hauk, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam Aboutīorn in Argentina and based in London, artist Amalia Pica explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through drawings, sculptures, large-scale photographic prints, slide projections, live performances, and installations.
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