Cooking with LACMA: Fijian Dish Ika Vakalolo (fish with coconut cream)

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."

Get the full recipe and read about Fijian artworks at https://unframed.lacma.org/2020/10/09/cooking-lacma%E2%80%94fijian-dish-ika-vakalolo-fish-coconut-cream

For more information about the exhibition "Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific" visit https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/fiji-art-life-pacific

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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