Thursday, November 9
7 pm ET

Address: Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room, 86 34th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 (Map here)

This lecture is FREE to all. Please RSVP with your email address at checkout.

Come for a campy contest and stay for a visual feast!

You’re in for a treat! Jo Weldon—head mistress of the New York School of Burlesque—is hosting a Jell-O salad-making contest along with an illustrated lecture on its fascinating history!

Gelatin dishes were once a hallmark of fine dining. Today they’re more likely to be considered unsophisticated, but these colorful dishes have had more than one heyday, and their nostalgic appeal is unparalleled. Tonight, Jo will reveal how technological advances made these dishes possible, how trends in advertising made them popular, and how the substance ended up everywhere from the Land of Oz to strip joints.

About the contest:

• Both standard and vegan gelatin dishes are welcome!

• Participants will bring their dishes and set them up for a taste test by judges and audience before the lecture. 

• A judges choice and an audience choice will be announced.

• Prizes will be gift bags, contents to be announced at joweldon.com

• To participate, email headmistress [at] schoolofburlesque [dot] com.

Jo Weldon is the author of The Burlesque Handbook and Fierce: A History of Leopard Print. She revels in pop culture ephemera and in revealing the tantalizing origins of things we take for granted. Her current writing explores the intersections of sex work and fashion. Get to know her at joweldon.com.