Nyesha Arrington will cook by the colors for benefit dinner

Do some colors make you think of certain foods? When Nyesha Arrington hears “orange,” for example, she thinks of grilled calamari, tangerine BBQ and marigolds. Or at least that’s what she put on the menu for her special Food is Art dinner series.

Arrington, onetime Top Chef competitor and former chef at Wilshire restaurant in Santa Monica, will be cooking Sunday and Monday nights to benefit the nonprofit Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles, or SEE-LA, which manages the Hollywood Farmers Market as well as several others.

Tickets are $65 and $85 (the higher price gets a seat at the chef’s table) and will be held at SEE-LA’s Farmer’s Kitchen, 1555 Vine St. (at Selma Avenue) in Hollywood. For more information, contact the restaurant at (323) 467-7600 or visit eventbrite.com.

The four-course meal is composed according to colors and described, in current fashion, rather cryptically. So you start with Fair Hills apple, yuzu and Persian cress. Then you move on to “green” (Maggie’s Farm nettles, germinated wheatberry, pistachio), then “orange,” “black” (charcoal-dusted rib eye, organic legume) and finally “earth” (date, caramelized honey, sea salt). More details are available on the website.

In addition to managing farmers markets, SEE-LA is part of the Hollywood Economic Revitalization Effort and works to bring sustainably grown food to lower-income shoppers. Through the Farmer’s Kitchen, it also teaches cooking and nutrition classes and hosts a healthful school lunch program that has served more than 80,000 hot lunches to kindergarten through fourth-grade students at Larchmont Charter School in West Hollywood.

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