Drop-In Healthy Valentine’s Day
Snacks for Kids
Friday, February 14, 2020 – 10:00am to 1:00pm
Community Room, South End Store (map)
Join 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
Pennywise Pantry Tour
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm
City Market, South End Store (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 and 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 our Outreach and Education team at learn@citymarket.coop or 802-861-9757.
Free
Wintervale at the Intervale Center
Sunday, February 23, 2020 – 11:00am to 2:00pm
Intervale Center (map)
Head on down to the Intervale Center for good food, hot drinks, outdoor recreation and winter fun. They will have free ski and snowshoe rentals for the whole family, kids’ activities and games, delicious food and drink for purchase, a chili cook-off and a bonfire to stay warm!
Free
Sweet Crêpes
Monday, March 2, 2020 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)
Crêpes are a festive, fun-to-make dessert that can be dressed up with any number of toppings. In this class you will learn to make traditional sweet crêpes (crêpes sucrées), along with the classic lemon syrup (sirop de citron) topping that is revered throughout France. We will also sample crêpes served with a hazelnut chocolate topping. We will discuss the origins and customs around crêpe-making in Northwestern France and teach you to make traditional Breton crêpes as they are still enjoyed in crêperies throughout Brittany today. We will also learn the equipment needed for making authentic crêpes at home and practice some French baking terms as we work. Instructor Anna Mays is an anthropologist who enjoys teaching about world culinary traditions, agricultural practices and the intersection between food, diet, culture and well-being. Anna trained at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School and has lived in France.
$10 City Market Members, $25 Non-Members
Superfood Spotlight: Elderberry Syrup
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)
Join herbalist Katherine Elmer (of Railyard Apothecary & Spoonful Herbals) to honor both the traditional use and the modern scientific understanding of Elderberry as a superfood and herbal medicine. Elderberry (and other dark berries) are potent antiviral allies for the cold and flu season, and they are gentle and effective superfoods that aid in the prevention of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. This workshop includes hands-on instruction in making your own elderberry syrup.
$10 City Market Members, $25 Non-Members
Homemade Pierogis
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)
Pierogis are the pride of the Polish people. Cities and towns host festivals devoted to them. No holiday feast would be complete without them. Want to know the secret to making the perfect pierogi? Come join the chef and owner of Luiza’s Homemade with Love, Luiza Bloomberg, who will guide participants through making both the classic cheese and potato pierogi and one other vegetable variety.
$10 City Market Members, $25 Non-Members
Fridge Foraging with Melissa Pasanen
Monday, March 9, 2020 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)
Fridge-foraged dinners – for nights when you don’t want to shop, but the fridge and pantry are relatively empty. Join Melissa Pasanen to learn how to create dinner out of not much, use up random things tucked in the back of the fridge and pantry, and cut food waste to boot. With a list of pantry staples to keep on hand and two basic methods — Mexican-style bean bake and Mediterranean grain bowls — plus 7 ways to make eggs into dinner. Melissa has worked as a food and agriculture journalist and cookbook author for close to 20 years. She is currently a contributing writer to the food section of Vermont’s alt-weekly, Seven Days. Prior to that, she was food editor for Vermont Life magazine and a regular contributor to the Burlington Free Press. She has authored or co-authored three cookbooks, including the New York Times notable cookbook, Cooking with Shelburne Farms: Food and Stories from Vermont. Her work has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, Saveur, EatingWell, and on Foodnetwork.com, among many others.
$10 City Market Members, $25 Non-Members
Knife Skills with Maria Garrido
Thursday, March 12, 2020 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Teaching Kitchen, South End Store (map)
Join us to learn basic knife skills to gain confidence in the home kitchen! We’ll cover the different knife types, types of cuts, and how to maintain knives at home. We provide knives for class, but feel free to (safely!) bring your knife from home for discussion. All students will get to practice cutting a variety of foods as we prepare a class meal of Thai vegetable stir-fry and mango salsa. This class will be taught by Maria Garrido. Maria was born and raised in Florida in a Chamorro and Filipino household. After living in Louisiana and San Francisco, she moved to Vermont in 2005 to attend the New England Culinary Institute (NECI) and was most recently at the Burlington School Food Project.
$10 City Market Members, $25 Non-Members
Junior Iron Chef
Saturday, March 14, 2020 – 9:00am to 3:30pm
Champlain Valley Exposition (map)
Jr Iron Chef VT is a statewide culinary competition organized by Vermont FEED challenging teams of middle and high school students to engage in improving their own health and the health of their community by creating nutritious, local dishes to inspire school meal programs.
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In-store Tours
Want to learn how to shop at the Co-op and find ways to save money?
Not comfortable signing up for a group Pennywise Pantry tour?
We’re happy to offer one-on-one tours with our Outreach and Education Team to help you feel more comfortable at the Co-op.
Please email
learn@citymarket.coop or
call 861-9757 for more information.
Scholarships
Mentoring pairs can sign-up to take City Market’s food and herbal education classes for free! To find out how, please contact:
learn@citymarket.coop.
Food for All Members
may attend classes for free. Please email learn@citymarket.coop
to sign up.
All others may inquire about a scholarship by emailing learn@citymarket.coop.
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Store Locations
Downtown Location
82 S. Winooski Ave.
Burlington, VT | 05401 US
South End Location
207 Flynn Ave
Burlington, VT | 05401 US