Culinary Literacy Center In the News

Billy Penn
Billy Penn

There's an apiary atop the Parkway Central branch, plus an observation hive *inside* the Port Richmond location.

Philadelphia Magazine
Philadelphia Magazine

Pizza-making classes, wine tastings for every level, and programming kids will love.

WHYY
WHYY

Philadelphia celebrated the end of Welcoming Week by honoring city workers and community advocates who help immigrants, refugees, and others figure out how to make the city their new home.

WURD
WURD

Interview with Aurora Sanchez and Shalya Felton-Dorsey on Savory & Sweet

Philadelphia Magazine
Philadelphia Magazine

Commemorating the storming of the Bastille prison during the Revolution, le quatorze juillet is France's celebration of independence. If the Francophile in you longs to get your liberté-égalité-fraternité on, here are your best bets around Philly.

Al Día News
Al Día News

Amy Rivera Nasser always saw first hand how Puerto Rican cuisine was created from her mother's kitchen in Hunting Park, Philadelphia. "She was always in the kitchen cooking something," Rivera Nassar said in an interview with AL DíA News.

WHYY
WHYY

On the first weekend of Black History Month, the Free Library of Philadelphia's Culinary Literacy Center invited the public to celebrate soul food with a healthy twist.

WHYY
WHYY

Ivonne Pinto-García is not afraid of death. In fact, she accepts that death is inevitable and the destination where we're all headed. She only hopes that when she is physically gone from this world, that she is placed on an altar and honored on Día de los Muertos.

The Cook's Cook
The Cook's Cook

Edible Alphabet at the library is a free series of classes that teaches English through cooking. Language learning through cooking began at the Culinary Literacy Center of the Free Library of Philadelphia, in 2016.

Shareable
Shareable

According to the USDA's latest Household Food Insecurity in the United States report, more than 35 million people in the United States experienced hunger in the year 2019. And that number may have even shot up much higher to 42 million people last year during the pandemic.

Al Día News
Al Día News

The American Heart Association steps up to support Philadelphia during the pandemic.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer

How do you teach knife skills over the internet? How do you lead a cooking class without providing the ingredients, or the tools, to make the recipe? And how do you cultivate a sense of community via a computer screen?

Oldways
Oldways

In response to COVID-19, Oldways' popular cooking and nutrition curriculum, A Taste of African Heritage (ATOAH), has largely moved online.

Library Journal
Library Journal

From youth to adults, newcomers to lifelong locals, library literacy programs that work flex to achieve what matters to each patron.

Edible Philly
Edible Philly

Since 2014, the Free Library of Philadelphia's Culinary Literacy Center has been a hotspot for innovative food education. Every month's roster of classes is rooted in the center's mission to advance literacy through food.

Northeast Times
Northeast Times

Edible Alphabet, which aims to help people learn English through cooking, is coming to the Lawncrest Library this month.

Al Día News
Al Día News

When the Free Library of Philadelphia first offered an Edible Alphabet course in 2015, it was for a group of torture survivors from all over the world who knew very little English. The class melds cooking a recipe with practicing a language, as participants learn the words for ingredients and actions in the kitchen as they put them to use.

NPR
NPR

For many immigrants, coming to America is full of the unfamiliar – from the language to the food. In Philadelphia, a program aims to help these arrivals settle into their new country by folding English lessons into a cooking class.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer

Erwin will share the techniques required to execute her fried chicken, through the Culinary Literacy Center at the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Plenty of warning: Tuesday, June 2 at 6 p.m. at 1901 Vine Street. Theme is 'Fried chicken in less than an hour.'

Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer

The mission has not changed as much as it has expanded since the lessons began with my own daughter in 2012: to convince not only students, but also parents and teachers - and our readers - that it's possible to cook fresh, healthy, really tasty meals without spending a lot. (This program is held at Parkway Central’s Culinary Literacy Center with students from the Russell Byers Charter School)

CBS Philly
CBS Philly

This morning the Free Library of Philadelphia, on Logan Circle, hosted its second monthly session of “Chow Down with Veterans” in its fourth-floor culinary literacy center kitchen. “This program focuses on eating a plant-based diet, and so what we are trying to teach them is how to cook delicious, nutritious, easy meals,” says culinary literacy specialist Liz Fitzgerald.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer

FOX 29's Iain Page and Lucy Noland, and CBS3's Kathy Orr, cooked up a storm yesterday at the Free Library of Philadelphia's central branch for Cancer Treatment Centers of America's Thanksgiving Throwdown benefit.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer

In between chugging olive oil and cracking wise, he imparted knife skills, food-preparation techniques, and a killer panzanella recipe to a crowd that included restaurant workers with limited English, kids finding their way around the kitchen for the first time, and parents and grandparents navigating their families' nutritional needs. These are some of the demographics that will be served by the Free Library's new Culinary Literacy Center, which opened Monday with demonstrations from Vetri and fellow chef Jose Garces.