Spicy with Minaë Tani-LaFleur
• – • Design Museum
About the speaker
Minaë Tani-LaFleur is a food entrepreneur based in Helsinki. As a certified saké sommelier — “kikizakeshi” — Minae consults and educates European food professionals on Japanese saké. She also leads a collective of international cooks at Zestii Kitchens, which she co-founded. Zestii Kitchens operates a collaboratively-run café with local partners OmaMaa, an agricultural cooperative, and the female-empowerment coffee roastery Dash Coffee, and works with fellow migrants to learn micro-entrepreneurship through their food knowledge.
Minaë was born and raised in Japan. She spent her childhood moving between different cities and absorbing the diversity of climate and food culture in the small island country. As a grownup, she was exposed to the deep world of international cuisine — through studying abroad, travelling, working with people from overseas, and living in the ultimate foodie city of Tokyo. She was an experimental and passionate “home cook”—not a professional “chef”—until she moved to Finland in 2017. Living overseas sharpened her awareness for her own cultural identity and roots, and the possibilities of expressing herself through cooking.
Local partners
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Design Club helps companies to rebuild and create new business opportunities through design. We build bridges between companies. From the world of design we bring creative thinking to customer relationship management.
Zestii is a marketplace connecting home cooks, suppliers and customers. We create opportunities for home cooks to bring their food to customers with a promise of quality.
Sustainability is really important to us and we encourage local sourcing where possible, plus all our food is served in either compostable or reusable containers. An order with Zestii is not only a delicious meal, it is an act of support for the local economy.
If you have a talent for good home cooking or you have some great local produce to sell, join us as a cook or supplier! Zestii is a community of people who love food - cooking it, eating it and producing it. Join us and help make a difference!
Stadin AO, Helsinki Vocational College and Adult Institute provides both young and adult students with a diverse learning environment and supports students’ well-being, broad and practical vocational skills development and lifelong learning. It also provides students with knowledge and skills necessary in further studies and promotes employment. Each study unit is assessed independently in real working-life situations.
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Additional details
We´re a morning lecture series for Helsinki´s creative community that also take place in 224 cities around the world. We continue to strive to connect our audience with heard and yet-to-be heard voices that make Helsinki creative, beautiful and diverse.
Join us at our face-to-face event Friday 26.4.2024 at 8:15 am for the theme of Spicy
Agenda for the morning:
8.15 am doors open & Breakfast is served
9:00 am Talk by Minaë Tani-LaFleur
10:00 am We wish you great and inspirational day!
Event accessibility: Event is held at Helsinki Design Museum. Entrance for wheelchairs and prams from Ullanlinnankatu street. Design Museum has an obstacle-free lift, and a wheelchair-accessible toilet on the basement level (floor K).
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