City Market events & workshops

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Save the Date:
We ♥ Local Recipe Contest

It’s that time of year again! Save the date for our annual We <3 Local Food Recipe Contest. This year, we’ve chosen Butternut Squash as our featured ingredient and we can’t wait to see what you come up with! These hearty squash are the perfect staple for a Vermont winter. Roast them up as a side or puree into soup. You can even sneak them into hummus and baked goods. The possibilities are endless! Enter your recipe online January 28th-February 11th and stay tuned for details on how to sample and vote on the top 3 recipes in February!
An Introduction to Intuitive Eating

Thursday, January 18, 2018 – 5:30pm to 6:30pm
City Market, Downtown Store (map)

Food EducationDo you feel inundated by messages of what and what not to eat? Intuitive eating is a refreshing alternative to the prescriptive, conflicting and harmful dieting culture. Instead of telling you what to eat, it teaches your how to eat. This 1-hour class will briefly introduce you to the 10 principles of Intuitive eating and teach you how they can help you create a healthy relationship between the body, mind, food, and exercise. This class is led by Kerri-Ann Jennings, a registered dietitian and educator who’s trained with Intuitive Eating author Evelyn Tribole.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

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Drop-In: Healthy After School Snacks for Kids

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 – 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)

Food EducationSwing by our Community Teaching Kitchen for healthy after school snacks. Feel free to grab a snack or stay for a demo. We will be making smoothies, 4-ingredient cookies, hummus, and parsnip chips. Participants will leave with recipes, skills, and a full belly.

Free

No-Fuss Kitchen: Minimal Waste Cooking

Monday, January 29, 2018 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)

Food EducationJoin us for our cooking series all about making cooking from scratch as easy as possible! Our former Outreach and Education Coordinator, Meredith Knowles, will lead this hands-on class about making healthy, simple, minimal-fuss dishes all while creating as little waste as possible. We’ll focus on creatively using commonly discarded food parts and making sure you use up everything you buy! Along the way, you’ll learn easy kitchen tricks and tips to help make cooking at home easy and fun.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

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Pennywise Pantry

Thursday, February 1, 2018 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
City Market, Downtown Store (map)

Pennywise PantryWith 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 a variety of healthy, local, and even organic foods and develop a better understanding of Co-op sales.

If the date and time above doesn’t work for your schedule, or if you would feel more comfortable with a one-on-one individualized tour, please contact Outreach and Education at learn@citymarket.coop.Free

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Storytime Saturday: Escargot

Saturday, February 3, 2018 – 11:00am to 12:00pm
Phoenix Books (map)

Food EducationEnjoy your Saturday morning with City Marketand Phoenix Books, and join us for a reading of the children’s book, Escargot by Dashka Slater. After we read together, we will have a fun and interactive healthy food activity! This event is free and does not require pre-registration.

Free

A Mosaic of Flavor:
Moe Hay Ka, a Noodle Soup from
the Highlands of Burma

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)

Mosaic of FlavorThis monthly series is a collaboration with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program.  February’s cooking class will be an adventure in the unique cuisine of the Karen tribe of Burma.  We will be making Moe Hay Ka, a wonderful noodle soup, rich in flavors of lemongrass, fish sauce and shallots, and finished with a handful of delicious toppings.  Our class will be taught by Ma Ley, a loving wife and mother of four children, who is overjoyed to share her love of her Karen culture and food.  Ma Ley lived in eastern Burma and then in a refugee camp in Thailand before coming to Vermont.  This will be the perfect dish to add to anyone’s winter cold-weather recipe collection!

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

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No Fuss Kitchen:
Dining on a Budget

Thursday, February 8, 2018 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)

Food EducationBeing kind to your wallet shouldn’t mean giving up the joy of cooking and eating. Taught by Meredith Knowles, this hands-on workshop will cover easy strategies to stretch your dollar in the grocery store and turn your ingredients into delicious meals at home. Together, we will make three 4-serving meals for under $10 each. The No-Fuss Kitchen means just that; if you’re interested in taking the stress out of meal-planning and cooking, this is the class for you.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

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Chinese Dumplings!

Sunday, February 11, 2018 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)

Food EducationFebruary 16th will mark the start of the Chinese New Year, ushering in the Year of the Dog. Learn about Chinese New Year foods and celebrations with Ben Wang, Co-op Member and Chinese teacher at the Vermont Commons School. We will make two kinds of traditional Chinese dumpling fillings, one stuffed with pork and another with spinach. Then, using premade wrappers, we will stuff the dumplings, boil them, make accompanying sauces, and celebrate the New Year while we eat our dumplings together.

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

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Crocheting Kitchen Pot Holders

Monday, February 12, 2018 – 5:00pm to 6:30pm
City Market, Downtown Store (map)

Food EducationIn this class we will learn to how to crochet potholders. This class is geared towards beginners but the technique we will learn can be applied to future crocheting projects. This class will be taught by Braden Lalancette, who learned to crochet from his mother while in middle school about 10 years ago, and has been making hats, scarves and headbands ever since. Come join us and learn a new skill that will serve you well during these long, cold winter days. Each participant will leave the class with their very own potholder!

$5 City Market Members, $10 non-members

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Drop-In Healthy Valentine’s Day
Snacks for Kids

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 – 10:00am to 1:00pm
Community Room, South End Store (map)

Food EducationJoin us for a fun morning making Valentine’s Day fruit kabobs! We will have heart shaped fruit available for kids of all ages. This is a drop-in event, so no need to sign up. We’ll also have coffee and music to enjoy. Feel free to drop in for a few minutes, or stay for the morning.

Free/Drop-In

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The Dish:
Apples, Getting to the Core

Thursday, February 22, 2018 – 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Arts Riot (map)

The DishAs our official state fruit, apples have become as quintessential as maple syrup to our state identity. From pick your own orchards to apple cider donuts, apple season marks the official arrival of fall in Vermont. Join us for a discussion and preview to Vermont Cider Week where we’ll explore this mighty giant. We’ll hear from orchardists, cider-makers, and apple enthusiasts about the importance of preserving heirloom varieties, the evolving palettes of cider drinkers, and the challenges and triumphs of apple production.

Check out more upcoming classes and events on our website.