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Golden Horse Film
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M. CHIU ................... 2
Baking Program
Those of us who are interested in baking, we had the exciting
baking had a phenomenal opportunity opportunity to learn how to make a
last month. On October 12th, ASICC personal chocolate cake in just 5
sponsored a baking seminar at one of minutes in the microwave. Each of us
our ASICC member’s homes very close was given a coffee mug in which we
to campus. We had the opportunity to mixed the ingredients for this cake and
learn from Marie Klingensmith, one of then later microwaved it in this same
New York’s finest pastry chefs (aka mug. Following this we had the
Jonathan and Wendy Evans’ Aunt). opportunity to taste our personal
chocolate cakes which were simply
This workshop provided an opportunity delicious. After a time of talking,
for us to learn some of the fine arts of tasting each others cakes, and sipping
baking and at the same time get to know on hot drinks, the apple pies were
more individuals in the International finished baking in the oven. The pies
community at Academia Sinica. had a lovely appearance and some
even had special pastry decorations
The participants were divided into small added to them. Everyone parted with a
groups and each person had an generous portion of the apple pie they
opportunity to take part in making a helped bake. The pies were absolutely
homemade apple pie from scratch. It delicious and much better than any
was a lot of fun working on this project store bought pie in Taipei.
together. While the apple pies were
D. Prakash
UPCOMING
EVENTS
This year, the film festival is from November 4th to November 18th 2010. In addition to
promoting the Taiwanese film industry, the festival committee arranges a series of hard-to-find
classic films to play in Taipei theaters. This year, the committee selected the works of or Éric
Rohmer (03/20/1920 – 01/11/2010, the last of the French New Wave directors) which not only Flora Expo, Taipei
brought French New Wave to the world but also the film noir genre. Date: Dec. 4, 2010
Registration Online
For more information, please see the website at: http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/ui/index.html
PREVIOUS EVENTS
M. Chiu INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OFFICE
1. Workshop on Baking
Date: Oct. 12, 2010
2. BOURBON TASTING
Date: Aug. 27, 2010
3. MOVIE APPRECIATION
NIGHT
Date: July 29, 2010
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