With this interactive and hands-on tour, participants will learn how to shop for affordable, fresh, long-lasting, and nutritious foods at City Market. We will begin by exploring the Produce and Bulk departments, learning a simple method for finding the best value on fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans by paying attention to the price per pound. Then we will enter the Grocery aisles and Perishables coolers, to learn to become savvy label readers as we shop for nourishing, long-lasting foods that contain 5 ingredients or fewer. No matter what kind of diet you follow, these pennywise tools will help you stock your kitchen with variety of healthy, local, and even organic foods and develop a better understanding of Co-op sales.

If the date and time above don’t work for your schedule, or if you would feel more comfortable with a one-on-one individualized tour, please contact our Outreach and Education Coordinator, Meredith Knowles, atmknowles@citymarket.coop or 802-861-9757.

Free

Winter Farmers’ Market:
Natural Sweeteners Taste Test

Saturday, April 2, 2016 – 10:00am to 2:00pm
Memorial Auditorium (map)

The Burlington Farmers’ Market goes indoors from November through April and features seasonal meats, produce, and handmade crafts from dozens of local producers. Once a month, stop by our activity table for fun, hands-on activities for all ages. Our April activity is all about one of our local natural sweeteners: maple syrup! Try different grades of maple syrup and choose your favorite.

Free

Tacos al Pastor—en español!

Saturday, April 2, 2016 – 11:00am to 1:00pm
McClure Multigenerational Center (map)

Back by popular demand!  Join us for another City Market Spanish-language cooking class, with instruction entirely in Spanish! We’ll make delicious Tacos al Pastor from scratch.  We will prepare the pork, make the traditional salsa, make hand-made tortillas, and prepare guacamole as well.  Our instructor, Alejandra, is from Querétaro, Mexico, about 3 hours from Mexico City. She lives in Vermont with her three young daughters and her husband, who works on a dairy farm. This class is made possible through a project called Huertas, a community-based food access project that facilitates the planting of kitchen gardens on rural dairy farms with Latino/migrant farm workers and their families. This class will be taught entirely in Spanish and is facilitated by Jessie Mazar, who works for Huertas.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

Free Herbal Consultations

Monday, April 4 & 11 2016 – 4:00pm to 8:00pm
City Market (map)

Have you ever been interested in using herbal medicine to improve your health? Join Betzy Bancroft RH (AHG), Larken Bunce MS, and Guido Masé RH (AHG) and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in a free, personalized session focused on your individual constitution and any health conditions you may be experiencing. An incredible opportunity to explore the art of herbal healing with experienced practitioners! All sessions last about two hours and are completely confidential. By appointment. Please sign up by contacting Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism at info@vtherbcenter.org.

Free

Tastes of Eritrea:
Yebeg Tibs & Ingudai Tibs

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
McClure Multigenerational Center (map)

Join us for an evening of Eritrean cooking! Together, we will be making two dishes popular in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Yebeg Tibs is a marinated lamb dish with rosemary, garlic, onion, tomato, jalapeño and the East African spice berbere. We will also make a vegetarian dish, Ingudai Tibs, a mushroom dish also made with berbere, onion, tomato, and fresh ginger. We will also have injera, a fermented flatbread made from teff and barley flours. This class will be taught by Mulu Tewelde, who came to Vermont from Eritrea in 2006 and enjoys sharing her knowledge and love of Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking. Together with her friend Alganesh Michael, Mulu cooks for Ethiopian Night at ArtsRiot once a month and caters for private events.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

Introduction to Baking with
Natural Sourdough

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm
City Market (map)

Discover the joys of baking with sourdough bread starter. You will learn how versatile (and forgiving) this living organism is and how you can put it to work in your favorite bread recipe. You can even use it for pastries! We will see the different stages of a starter, learn when it’s ripe and ready, and taste freshly baked slices of several varieties of sourdough bread. There will be plenty of time for discussion and questions, and every participant will go home with a starter culture to start his or her very own sourdough for home baking. Heike Meyer is the owner of Bee Sting Bakery in Fairfax, a small artisan bakery specializing in whole grain naturally leavened breads and pastries.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

Pennywise Pantry Tour

Monday, April 11, 2016 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm
City Market (map)

With this interactive and hands-on tour, participants will learn how to shop for affordable, fresh, long-lasting, and nutritious foods at City Market. We will begin by exploring the Produce and Bulk departments, learning a simple method for finding the best value on fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans by paying attention to the price per pound. Then we will enter the Grocery aisles and Perishables coolers, to learn to become savvy label readers as we shop for nourishing, long-lasting foods that contain 5 ingredients or fewer. No matter what kind of diet you follow, these pennywise tools will help you stock your kitchen with variety of healthy, local, and even organic foods and develop a better understanding of Co-op sales.

If the date and time above don’t work for your schedule, or if you would feel more comfortable with a one-on-one individualized tour, please contact our Outreach and Education Coordinator, Meredith Knowles, atmknowles@citymarket.coop or 802-861-9757.

Free

A Mosaic of Flavor: Congolese Poulet à la sauce d’arachide, Bananes plantain and Saka-Saka

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
McClure Multigenerational Center (map)

This monthly series is a collaboration with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. In April, we will be preparing two traditional dishes popular in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We will learn to make poulet à la sauce d’arachide, a rich chicken stew seasoned with onions, peppers, tomatoes and nutmeg and traditionally thickened with ground nuts or peanut butter. We will also make steamed plantains, which are a favorite accompaniment to the stew. We will also sample the famous Congolese dish Saka-Saka, a staple side dish made from cassava leaves, leeks, garlic and salted dry fish. Originally from Congo, Hélène Yangambi came to Burlington with her four daughters in 2014. Hélène loves to cook, but jokes that this was not always the case. When she was a teenager, she says she used to cry when her mother made her go into the kitchen to learn to cook. She learned to cook when she was 18 in preparation for getting married and now her husband and daughters confirm she is an exceptional cook. Hélène is excited to share the taste and flavors of Congolese food with class participants, especially her favorite dish, Saka-Saka.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

Perennial Edibles for Yard and Garden

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm
City Market (map)

Perennials can be more than just beautiful flowers. Learn about edible perennial vegetables that thrive in Vermont including garden sorrel, good king Henry, walking onion, Jerusalem artichoke, asparagus, and rhubarb. Compliment your vegetable garden with perennial edibles to reduce the work and expense of keeping your home stocked with fresh food from the yard through the growing season.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members