Essex Street Market Gets a Live Showing of 'Cooking With Granny'

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — The Essex Street Market is offering a live show of the popular web series "Cooking With Granny," where Granny Lumen will teach a class on how to make "ube halaya," a traditional Filipino dessert made with mashed purple yams. The session takes place Oct. 22, and people who attend will get to taste the purple yam pudding, see Lumen prepare it, and "engage in an intimate discussion about the role food plays in immigration."

Lumen's tutorial is part of a new live cooking program held at Essex Street Market called "Fresh Bites," which will feature guest chefs, food bloggers and TV chefs offering advice on cooking technique and samples.

The YouTube series "Cooking with Granny" was created by journalist Caroline Shin in 2014 to explore grandmas' cooking and how their recipes reflected generations of good food from different cultures. Shin says she got the idea in 2010 to just feature her grandma's cooking, but then she realized she wanted to give a platform to many more grandmas out there.

To see Lumen prepare her Internet famous pudding for $15, sign up ASAP! There are only two demos, at noon or 2 p.m., and each one is limited to 15 people.

Photo credit: Courtesy of Cooking With Granny