The Piranha Club ~with Paul Anthony Smith~ presents: Xaymaca/ Queens

On March 28th, Chef Eric will team up with artist Paul Anthony Smith, who is a tremendous cook and intrepid eater. The duo have been challenging each other to a culinary throw down for quite some time, commenting back and forth on each other’s food porn on Instagram. Paul is of Jamaican decent and Eric is a bit of a Jamaica-phile, so obviously the flavors of the Caribbean provided a great starting point for their collaboration. Just down Queens Blvd from the Knockdown Center (which at one point was actually named “Jamaica Estates”), there happens to be a neighborhood called Jamaica, which many Jamaican people call home. The name however, is not derived from the native-to-Caribbean-Jamaica Arawak people, who named their land Xaymaca, “land of wood and water”, but from the native-to-Jamaica-Queens Lenape people who called their land Yameco, which translates to “beaver”. Join Eric & Paul on March 28th at Knockdown Center as part of the “Negative Space” exhibition for a Caribbean- inflected feast featuring Arawak and Lenape techniques and ingredients.