Cooking with LACMA brings together chefs and culinary historians to demonstrate recipes inspired by artworks at the museum. For this episode, chef Chandra Williams will teach the Fijian fish recipe Ika Vakalolo, in conjunction with the exhibition "Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific."
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Additional credits:
The construction of the drua was made possible with generous support from the exhibition's presenting sponsor, FIJI Water.
Installation photograph, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 15, 2019-July 19, 2020, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Constance Gordon Cumming, Levuka in Ovalau, Fiji, 19th September 1875, watercolor, 19 3/16 × 28 28 in., Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge: 1998.55, photo reproduced by permission of the Museum Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Cup (bilo), Fiji, early 19th century, coconut shell and fiber, length: 4 3/8 in., lent by Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, photo courtesy of the Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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