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Cheese Warehouse Sale with Artisanal Ales
Join us at the monthly cheese warehouse sale with free wine and cheese tastings and good prices. Optional: repair to nearby Grimm Artisanal Ales where you can purchase flights of ales and pizza.
These events are open to the public though we have secured 8 free tickets to the warehouse sale, and could possibly try for more if needed (they “sell” out), or you can get your own ticket!
Saturday, October 24, 2026
1-3 p.m.
Members only and free!
C. Hesse Cheese
302 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
RSVP by Friday, October 16th

Link in bio 👆 by @nywca

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It was such a treat to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival at Mee Sum Café on Pell Street with Chinatown advocate and cookbook author Grace Young and with Karen Liu of Grand Tea & Imports.

We learned from Grace and Karen that the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a time when the harvest bounty is becoming more abundant, so friends and family gather over tea and mooncakes to celebrate that bounty and gaze at the moon.

Soon Karen poured the first cups of tea and Grace passed around the first bites of mooncake, and we were guided through a truly educational and delicious tasting.

The first pairing was a subtly sweet pineapple-filled mooncake from @bodhivegetarian on Mulberry Street and a tea called Taishan Wild Grown Cloud & Mist White Tea, from Karen’s family’s ancestral home.

Next, Grace gave us wedges of a rich black-sesame mooncake from @papersonscafe on Mott Street, while Karen poured a hand-picked, charcoal-roasted tea (from her father’s village) that was called Taishan Ancestral Sijiu Country Black Tea.

For the third pairing, Grace passed around a wonderfully distinctive mooncake made with white lotus paste and salted duck-egg yolks from @doublecrispybakery on Grand Street. She explained that this was the mooncake she grew up eating. It was intriguingly complex and beautifully balanced, both sweet and salty, and it paired perfectly with our last tea, Tangerine Puerth, which was also quite complex.

As the afternoon wound down, Karen told us that her family was honored to play a role in keeping traditions alive and connecting people in Chinatown to their hometowns, adding that it was gratifying to work with tea makers who get excited about seeing their tea leaves sold in NYC for the first time.

We hope you’ll take a trip down to Chinatown soon and stop in at 298 Grand Street so that you, too, can have some of the Liu Family’s ambrosial teas. by @nywca

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Networking Event!
Members only free networking event with a presentation on how to improve your photography by food photographers Robin & Sue. Small Bites and drinks provided. If your membership has lapsed, you can renew easily online and come join us at this event!

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
6-8 p.m.
Neighbor
176 Ninth Ave, New York, NY

RSVP by Sunday, October 4th
Link in bio! by @nywca

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Member Networking Event

Members only free networking event with a presentation on how to improve your photography by food photographers Robin & Sue. Small Bites and drinks provided. If your membership has lapsed, you can renew easily at nywca.org and come join us at this event!

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
6-8 p.m.

Neighbor
176 Ninth Ave, New York, NY

RSVP by Friday, October 2nd. by @nywca

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7 days ago

Happy Hour on the Hudson

Come to a casual gathering of friends and colleagues on a boat on the river. Enjoy self-serve bar and snacks, hear about the history of how this former Navy vessel became a unique cocktail setting.

Wednesday, September 23
(rain date Thursday, September 24)
5:30 p.m.
Baylander
Hudson River at West 125th
RSVP by September 21. by @nywca

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15 days ago

We think this would be of interest to our community! For more information please go to @wildsorrelcookbooks - image credit from @wildsorrelcookbooks page. by @nywca

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RSVP is extended through 9/17! To sign up please check out link in bio!

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: Tea & Mooncakes

Join Grace Young and Alice and Karen Liu (second-generation owners of Grand Tea & Imports) as they co-host a special tea tasting in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.

One of the most beloved festivals in Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family and friends to gather, give thanks, and celebrate an abudant harvest and togetherness. Traditionally, people gaze at the luminous full moon while sipping tea and sharing sweet mooncakes, whose round shape symbolizes reunion, harmony, and completeness.

Alice and Karen Liu will guide guests through a tasting of specially selected Chinese teas paired with traditional mooncakes, while sharing the stories and traditions behind this centuries-old celebration. Each guest will receive a selection of teas from Grand Tea & Imports’ fine collection to take home.

Pictured left to right: Grace Young (credit: Zabrina Deng);Alice and Karen Liu (credit: Hoa Huynh from We Are Chimmi)

Saturday, September 19
3–4:30 p.m.

Mee Sum Cafe
26 Pell St., New York, NY 10002
$35 Members
$40 Non-Members by @nywca

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Happy Hour on the Hudson

Come to a casual gathering of friends and colleagues on a boat on the river. Enjoy self-serve bar and snacks, hear about the history of how this former Navy vessel became a unique cocktail setting.

Wednesday, September 23
(rain date Thursday, September 24)
5:30 p.m.
Baylander
Hudson River at West 125th
RSVP by September 21. by @nywca

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I’m excited to co-host a special tea and mooncake tasting with Alice and Karen Liu, second-generation owners of @grandteaimports in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival for @nywca.

One of the most beloved festivals in Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family and friends to gather, give thanks, and celebrate the harvest and togetherness. Traditionally, people gaze at the luminous full moon while sipping tea and sharing sweet mooncakes, whose round shape symbolizes reunion, harmony, completeness and the full moon.

Alice and Karen will guide us through a tasting of specially selected Chinese teas paired with traditional mooncakes, while sharing the stories and traditions behind this centuries-old celebration. Each guest will also receive a selection of teas from Grand Tea & Imports’ fine collection to take home.

We’ll gather at Mee Sum Cafe, one of Chinatown’s oldest eateries. Space is limited, so don’t wait! Link in bio to register by September 12.

Saturday, Sept. 19 | 3:00–4:30 PM
Mee Sum Cafe | 26 Pell St., NYC
$35 NYWCA members | $40 non-members Photo Credit for Alice & Karen: Hoa Huynh from We Are Chimmi; my photo: Zabrina Deng taken in Mee Sum Cafe by @nywca

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This looks like a great event for the NYWCA community- for more information and to sign up - please go to @nationalartsclub thank you @localfoodmaven for the info! Image is from @nationalartsclub by @nywca

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Happy Hour on the Hudson

Come to a casual gathering of friends and colleagues on a boat on the river. Enjoy self-serve bar and snacks, hear about the history of how this former Navy vessel became a unique cocktail setting.

Wednesday, September 23
(rain date Thursday, September 24)
5:30 p.m.
Baylander
Hudson River at West 125th
RSVP by September 21. by @nywca

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Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: Tea & Mooncakes

Join Grace Young and Alice and Karen Liu (second-generation owners of Grand Tea & Imports) as they co-host a special tea tasting in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.

One of the most beloved festivals in Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family and friends to gather, give thanks, and celebrate an abudant harvest and togetherness. Traditionally, people gaze at the luminous full moon while sipping tea and sharing sweet mooncakes, whose round shape symbolizes reunion, harmony, and completeness.

Alice and Karen Liu will guide guests through a tasting of specially selected Chinese teas paired with traditional mooncakes, while sharing the stories and traditions behind this centuries-old celebration. Each guest will receive a selection of teas from Grand Tea & Imports’ fine collection to take home.

Pictured left to right: Grace Young (credit: Zabrina Deng);Alice and Karen Liu (credit: Hoa Huynh from We Are Chimmi)

Saturday, September 19
3–4:30 p.m.

Mee Sum Cafe
26 Pell St., New York, NY 10002
$35 Members
$40 Non-Members
RSVP by September 12 by @nywca

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