Tagged culinary literacy
Bake Some STE(A)M Skills Into Your Celebration of Pi Day
Pie: it's as easy as 1, 2, 3.14159.... As a justification to stuff our pie holes this month, we’ve found a convenient pair of homophones — the phonetic rendering of the Greek letter π (used to represent the ratio of a…
Buy Honey Harvested from the Free Library Apiary and Support the Culinary Literacy Center!
The Culinary Literacy Center is all abuzz about one of its most special projects: making honey! A little known fact about Parkway Central Library is that we have an apiary, otherwise known as a collection of honeybee hives, on the…
Making Sofrito with Juanita and Family!
Juanita Vega DeJoseph is the Assistant Department Head in the Art & Literature Department and someone who enjoys cooking and creating. We are so grateful to Juanita for sharing her process of making sofrito, a recipe…
Nourishing Literacy | Let's make strawberry cards with Shayna!
Strawberries are super and sweet to look at and to eat! In this video, Shayna used strawberries as her theme for making handmade cards . What ideas do you have for making cards or stationary? What shapes and colors can you find in…
Keep it Fresh with Fresh Herbs!
Fresh herbs add flavor and nutrition to meals, they are beautiful when added to dishes, and many of them have unique fragrances. They are like tiny greens ! Maybe fresh herbs will inspire poems, cooking, or preserving like they do for…
Nourishing Literacy | Strawberries Are Our Jam!
Fresh, frozen, sun-dried, freeze-dried, jelly, jam, milk, ice cream, fruit leather, syrup... strawberries are sweet, a treat, and fun to eat! A great source of vitamin C, strawberries are a special food with some surprises…
Robert Bogle and Philadelphia’s Dynastic Black Caterers
Philadelphia’s Food Service History is Black History From the Historical Marker Database , photographed by Carolyn Martienssen, June 2015 You might have noticed on South 8th Street a historical marker that reads: “A noted…
Nourishing Literacy | Kitchen Life Skills
The Nourishing Literacy team has been creating a short series of audio shares with a focus on children and youth, highlighting skills and qualities that we practice and encourage in the kitchen. These shares include extended…
Celebrating February's Food Days
Did you know that there are important dates in February beyond Groundhog Day (Sorry, Punxsutawney Phil!), Presidents' Day, and Valentine’s Day, where specific foods are celebrated? Here's just a few to mark on your…
Nourishing Literacy | Fun Pun Kitchen: Cooking Up Creativity!
It might be ridichio' lous but puns can be a way to use brain mussels . In the Culinary Literacy Center , food is our muse when we put pen' salt to pepper (pencil to paper!) . Do you think that you could create a…
Picture Book Highlights | National Pizza Day
Can you guess what one of the world’s favorite foods is? It’s pizza! Whether you bake it your own, eat it in a restaurant by the slice (or the whole pie!), or buy it frozen from a supermarket—pizza is a popular choice…
Nourishing Literacy | Planting Story Seeds with Madame Marie and Her Magic Garden
Nourish your literacy by creating stories from scratch—with a seed starter! Chrissy loves to read, write, and tell stories. Her suggested steps for creating folklore were offered back when she was Talking About Tomatoes ! The…
Nourishing Literacy | Let's Layer: Art and Cooking!
What art projects can you think of that involve layers? What recipes have you tasted that include layers of ingredients? Leanna and Tonii share two ideas for layering, while creating art and recipes in the following video. These ideas…
Nourishing Literacy | Veggie Rap!
If you like sweet beets, nourish your literacy with extra flavor and spice! Brocc out with the Veggie Rap! It's a jam, and it might even make you feel butter. Lime for lime you can farro along. Phyllo ears with some grape…
Nourishing Literacy | Create Your Own Candy Buttons!
Teens recently joined the Field Teen Center and Nourishing Literacy teams for a SWEET Make and Take project! Candy buttons are small dots of colorful sugar candy attached to a strip of paper. It was surprising and cool how simple…
Nourishing Literacy | We Are Green Machines!
What shapes, sizes, and colors are the leafy greens that you enjoy eating, or would like to try? The following recipe uses the leaves and the stems of the vegetable. Try eating these greens over noodles or rice. What are some of your…
Nourishing Literacy | Books and Cooks: Strong Rocks
Books and Cooks, a collaboration between the Parkway Central Library Children’s Department and the Culinary Literacy Center’s Nourishing Literacy team, offers an afterschool series of story read-alouds, cooking ideas,…
#SummerThrowback: Building Community Through Food Sovereignty
This week, we're taking a little stroll down memory lane with #summerthrowback to highlight how food can be holistic, radical, and more than anything—should be a right, not a privilege. We learn from community members by way…
Nourishing Literacy | That's Bananas!
Mashed, chopped, whole, frozen, fresh, or dried—bananas are a whole food that are nutritious to eat and flexible to use in cooking! This snack is made with just two ingredients, banana, and lemon! With a small amount of…
Sunday Funday Yoga Storytime with Folkshul
Sunday Fundays, a program series of stories and songs featuring mindfulness, meditation, and movement in celebration of Jewish culture, is a partnership between Folkshul and the Free Library. Children ages infant to 5 and their…
Urban Foraging Tour of Washington Square Park
Join Lady Danni of Landed Gentress on a tour of the urban ecosystem and learn about the "plants formerly known as weeds" all around us that can be used for culinary and medicinal purposes. Meet at the Independence Library.…
Honey and the Hundred Acre Woods: Talk and Tasting
Join staff from the Culinary Literacy Center and a very special guest beekeeper for a tasty and family-friendly program geared towards school-age children and their caregivers. Together, we will explore (and sample!) the honey from our…
Cherry Blossom Festival Wagashi Workshop
Wagashi are traditional sweets served as part of a Japanese tea ceremony . Made with rice flour and filled with ingredients such as red bean paste, wagashi are naturally vegan and gluten-free. (If you have dietary restrictions or other…
The Language of Food: An Open Mic Poetry Night
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox...." William Carlos Williams From Dunbar , to Plath , Young and more, we’re celebrating our emotional and cultural connections to food.…
The Language of Food: An Open Mic Poetry Night
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox...." William Carlos Williams From Dunbar , to Plath , Young and more, we’re celebrating our emotional and cultural connections to food.…
Reem Kassis | The Arabesque Table: Contemporary Recipes from the Arab World
In conversation with Deb Perelman Reem Kassis is the author of The Palestinian Table , a guide to Middle Eastern cooking woven together through recipes, regional history, and three generations of family traditions. Praised by fellow…
Sam Sifton | See You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends
The food editor at the New York Times and the founding editor of the Times ’s digital cookbook, NYT Cooking , Sam Sifton is one of America’s most popular culinary writers. He formerly worked as the Gray Lady’s national news editor,…
Healthy Communities
Healthy Communities, a partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention , increases the library’s capacity to offer free, accessible cooking, physical activity, gardening…