COD Foundation treats President’s Circle to culinary adventures
Marge Dodge
The
College of the Desert Foundation President’s Circle members were taken on a culinary adventure without ever leaving their Zoom screen. The event featured
Casuelas Café,
Cork Tree Restaurant and
Everbloom Coffee. Recipes were distributed prior to the event so attendees could follow along with the cooking demonstrations.
Joaquin Delgado and
Ray Rodriquez, owners of Casuelas Café and Cork Tree, narrated demonstrations of preparing chunky guacamole, camarones rancheros, chimichurri, beef filet and Chilean sea bass with soy mirin glaze.
Efrain Mercado and
Matthew Ortega, owners of Everbloom Coffee, shared their story of meeting as students at COD and sharing a passion for coffee and the entrepreneurial spirit. Mercado never thought he could afford to attend college and credits a high school counselor for encouraging him to apply to COD and for scholarships. The two friends began their bu
February 4, 2021 at 8:00 am
In the late 1800s, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish brain scientist, spent long hours in his attic drawing elaborate cells. His careful, solitary work helped reveal individual cells of the brain that together create wider networks. For those insights, Cajal received a Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1906.
Now, a group of embroiderers has traced those iconic cell images with thread, paying tribute to the pioneering drawings that helped us see the brain clearly.
The Cajal Embroidery Project was launched in March of 2020 by scientists at the University of Edinburgh. Over a hundred volunteers scientists, artists and embroiderers sewed panels that will ultimately be stitched into a tapestry, a project described in the December