Cooking, Culture, and Community During COVID: Q+A with Virtual ATOAH Instructor Paul O. Mims
Oldways - Cultural Food Traditions
September 22, 2020
In response to COVID-19, Oldways' popular cooking and nutrition curriculum, A Taste of African Heritage (ATOAH), has largely moved online.
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Libraries Tackle Literacy Through Innovative, Practical Programs
Library Journal Website
September 9, 2020
From youth to adults, newcomers to lifelong locals, library literacy programs that work flex to achieve what matters to each patron.
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Learning a New Language through Food at Philadelphia's Free Library
Edible Philly
March 16, 2020
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.
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Program coming to Lawncrest offers lessons in English and food
Northest Time Newsweekly
February 14, 2020
Edible Alphabet, which aims to help people learn English through cooking, is coming to the Lawncrest Library this month.
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Cooking up summer fun at the library
Philadelphia Public School: thenotebook
July 30, 2019
The library is more than a place for children to escape from the heat and dive into their favorite stories this summer. At Parkway Central Library, young people have the opportunity to cook up some delicious fun.
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Teaching Spanish with cooking: A journey through the Edible Alphabet en Español
Al Día
June 28, 2019
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.
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A Cooking Class Where New Immigrants Learn The Recipe For English
NPR
January 22, 2016
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.
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Let a master teach you the tricks of friend chicken
Philly.com
April 24, 2015
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.'
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GSK’s $5M to Philly groups helping kids eat better
Philly.com
March 20, 2015
The announcement was made at The Free Library's fourth-floor renovated meeting room, which has a wonderful view of the city skyline. Across the hall is a new teaching kitchen to provide space for Philly kids to learn how to cook, with the hope being they will dish up for themselves and families healthy meals to help cut into the city's obesity rate.
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My Daughter’s Kitchen program keeps expanding
Philly.com
March 5, 2015
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)
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Phila. Free Library Holds Healthy Cooking Classes with Focus on Military Vets
CBS Philly
January 14, 2015
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.
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Anchors cook up a storm to ward off cancer
Philadelphia Daily News
November 19, 2014
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.
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Starting from scratch
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 29, 2014
The new commercial kitchen at the Free Library of Philadelphia is, by far, the most beautiful, tricked-out kitchen in which I've ever cooked.
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Improving literacy, one recipe at a time
Philly.com
June 3, 2014
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.
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Breakfast burrito a winner in school culinary test
Philly.com
Randolph's winning recipe, cooked up by a team of students at the Free Library's Culinary Literacy Center on Thursday morning, will appear on the menu at all 86 of the district's full-service cafeterias.
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