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Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Soil Kitchen: April 1st - 6th
http://soilkitchen.org
Friday, April 1st
noon-1:30pm | Wind Turbine Workshop 1
Sam Newman
Learn how to build your own wind turbine from household materials. In the first part of this three-part workshop, Sam will talk about wind turbines, location, and circuitry.
Learn how to build your own wind turbine from household materials. In the first part of this three-part workshop, Sam will talk about wind turbines, location, and circuitry.
2:00pm-3:00pm | Composting and You
Tim Bennett
Join Tim Bennett, owner of Bennett Compost, for an introduction to the principles and processes of turning organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. Good compost is key to urban growing.
Join Tim Bennett, owner of Bennett Compost, for an introduction to the principles and processes of turning organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. Good compost is key to urban growing.
3:00pm-4:30pm | Soil Sampling Workshop
TBA
Learn how to sample your soil and get accurate test results. Perfect practice for getting your soil tested at Soil Kitchen!
Learn how to sample your soil and get accurate test results. Perfect practice for getting your soil tested at Soil Kitchen!
Saturday, April 2nd
11:00am-noon | Soil Sampling Workshop
TBA
Learn how to sample your soil and get accurate test results. Perfect practice for getting your soil tested at Soil Kitchen!
Learn how to sample your soil and get accurate test results. Perfect practice for getting your soil tested at Soil Kitchen!
2:00pm-3:30pm | Community Stock
Patrick Caulfield
Learn how to invest in Community Stock! Chef Patrick Caulfield will provide lessons on investing in the value of communal local food systems. This workshop will invite small communities to join forces to create vegetable stock source from their gardens, tables and neighbors. Bring Table Scraps!
Learn how to invest in Community Stock! Chef Patrick Caulfield will provide lessons on investing in the value of communal local food systems. This workshop will invite small communities to join forces to create vegetable stock source from their gardens, tables and neighbors. Bring Table Scraps!
4:00pm-5:00pm | Soil: A Living Thing
Kyle Sirianno
Join soil scientist Kyle Sirianno in looking at the diversity that exists beneath our feet, and the patchwork of organic material that makes up our urban soil landscape. A multimedia presentation with Q&A to follow.
Join soil scientist Kyle Sirianno in looking at the diversity that exists beneath our feet, and the patchwork of organic material that makes up our urban soil landscape. A multimedia presentation with Q&A to follow.
Sunday, April 3rd
noon-3:00pm | Brownfields Conference Tour: Northern Liberties
noon-1:00pm | Composting and You
Tim Bennett
Join Tim Bennett, owner of Bennett Compost, for an introduction to the principles and processes of turning organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. Good compost is key to urban growing.
Join Tim Bennett, owner of Bennett Compost, for an introduction to the principles and processes of turning organic waste into nutrient-rich compost. Good compost is key to urban growing.
1:00pm-4:00pm | Getting to the Dirt: An Urban Agriculture Meet-Up
The Greenhorns
Join young farmer activist group The Greenhorns and the Philadelphia Urban Farm Network as they introduce young farmers in the area that make the food you eat. The meet and greet will include show and tell and small presentations from our guests.
Join young farmer activist group The Greenhorns and the Philadelphia Urban Farm Network as they introduce young farmers in the area that make the food you eat. The meet and greet will include show and tell and small presentations from our guests.
4:00pm-5:00pm | Reading: Don Quixote
TBA
A reading (from Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes) of the meeting of Don Quixote and the Windmill over a bowl of soup. Learn about some of the inspiration behind Soil Kitchen. In both English and Spanish.
A reading (from Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes) of the meeting of Don Quixote and the Windmill over a bowl of soup. Learn about some of the inspiration behind Soil Kitchen. In both English and Spanish.
5:00pm-6:00pm | Archive: Soil Test Results
Representative from the Agency for Toxic Substance & Disease Registry
Learn how to read your soil test results; what they mean and what you can do in response to make your environment a healthy and fruitful space for growing food. Add your test results to the first ever Soil Archive and Map.
Learn how to read your soil test results; what they mean and what you can do in response to make your environment a healthy and fruitful space for growing food. Add your test results to the first ever Soil Archive and Map.
Monday, April 4th
11:00am-2:00pm | Wind Turbine Workshop 2
Sam Newman
A hands on workshop where participants will construct a number of small wind turbines from readily available materials. Come ready to build!
A hands on workshop where participants will construct a number of small wind turbines from readily available materials. Come ready to build!
3:00pm-5:00pm | Low-tech/Low-cost Remediation of Contaminated Urban Soil
Melissa Miles
Soils in urban areas are contaminated with higher levels of heavy metals than those located in rural areas. Heavy metal contamination brings potential health risk from consumption of home-grown vegetables and fruit in urban backyard environments. This is an environmental problem that needs an environmentally safe and economically feasible solution. This workshop will provide participants with the ability to determine if their soil may be contaminated and provide them with various low-cost, low-tech methods of removing some common contaminants from urban soils.
Soils in urban areas are contaminated with higher levels of heavy metals than those located in rural areas. Heavy metal contamination brings potential health risk from consumption of home-grown vegetables and fruit in urban backyard environments. This is an environmental problem that needs an environmentally safe and economically feasible solution. This workshop will provide participants with the ability to determine if their soil may be contaminated and provide them with various low-cost, low-tech methods of removing some common contaminants from urban soils.
Tuesday, April 5th
11:00am-noon | Archive: Soil Test Results
Representative from the Agency for Toxic Substance & Disease Registry
Learn how to read your soil test results; what they mean and what you can do in response to make your environment a healthy and fruitful space for growing food. Add your test results to the first ever Soil Archive and Map.
Learn how to read your soil test results; what they mean and what you can do in response to make your environment a healthy and fruitful space for growing food. Add your test results to the first ever Soil Archive and Map.
3:00pm-5:00pm | Wind Turbines Workshop 3
Sam Newman
(Weather dependent) Return to mount the turbines and watch them spin!
(Weather dependent) Return to mount the turbines and watch them spin!
5:00pm-6:00pm | Community Stock
Patrick Caulfield
Learn how to invest in Community Stock! Chef Patrick Caulfield will provide lessons on investing in the value of communal local food systems. This workshop will invite small communities to join forces to create vegetable stock source from their gardens, tables and neighbors. Bring Table Scraps!
Learn how to invest in Community Stock! Chef Patrick Caulfield will provide lessons on investing in the value of communal local food systems. This workshop will invite small communities to join forces to create vegetable stock source from their gardens, tables and neighbors. Bring Table Scraps!
Wednesday, April 6th
noon-1:00pm | Reading: Don Quixote
TBA
A reading (from Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes) of the meeting of Don Quixote and the Windmill over a bowl of soup. Learn about some of the inspiration behind Soil Kitchen. In both English and Spanish.
A reading (from Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes) of the meeting of Don Quixote and the Windmill over a bowl of soup. Learn about some of the inspiration behind Soil Kitchen. In both English and Spanish.
3:00pm-5:00pm | Low-tech/Low-cost Remediation of Contaminated Urban Soil
Melissa Miles
Soils in urban areas are contaminated with higher levels of heavy metals than those located in rural areas. Heavy metal contamination brings potential health risk from consumption of home-grown vegetables and fruit in urban backyard environments. This is an environmental problem that needs an environmentally safe and economically feasible solution. This workshop will provide participants with the ability to determine if their soil may be contaminated and provide them with various low-cost, low-tech methods of removing some common contaminants from urban soils.
Soils in urban areas are contaminated with higher levels of heavy metals than those located in rural areas. Heavy metal contamination brings potential health risk from consumption of home-grown vegetables and fruit in urban backyard environments. This is an environmental problem that needs an environmentally safe and economically feasible solution. This workshop will provide participants with the ability to determine if their soil may be contaminated and provide them with various low-cost, low-tech methods of removing some common contaminants from urban soils.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
No Soup for You! Soup Nazi on Girard Ave.
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By Patty-Pat Kozlowski
By Patty-Pat Kozlowski
November 2, 1995. Yes, it was 16 years ago when America was introduced to "The Soup Nazi" via the television sitcom Seinfeld.
What else can you remember from 1995? Clinton was President. It was the year O.J. Simpson went on trial in January and was given a not guilty verdict in October. San Fran won the Super Bowl, Atlanta won the World Series. The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia died and the Oscar for Best Picture went to "Forrest Gump".
And a four worded phrase was introduced into pop culture thanks to Seinfeld’s "Soup Nazi". It was yelled, it was shouted, and today it is still popular- "No Soup for You!"
Do you remember the episode? Here’s a rundown-
Jerry, George and Elaine go out to a new soup stand Kramer has been raving about; its owner is referred to as the "Soup Nazi" due to his temperament and insistence on a strict manner of behavior while ordering. Jerry explains the procedure for ordering which George accepts, but Elaine rejects.
When Jerry and George get to the soup stand, George follows the procedure but notices that he did not get the free bread with his soup order. Jerry tells him to let it go, but George asks for some, and is told he will have to pay $2 for it. When George objects, claiming that everybody in front of him got free bread, he is told that the price for bread is now "THREE dollars!" When George continues to protest, he quickly has his money returned and his soup is brusquely taken back, with the catchphrase "No soup for you! NEXT!"
That was the basic outline of the episode. And 16 years after this episode ran on television, hundreds of people stood in 29 degree weather this past Saturday outside Doc’s Gourmet Café and Soup Bar at 169 W. Girard Avenue to get yelled at, put down and told off by the Soup Nazi, played by actor Larry Thomas.
The Soup Line: Neighborhood History
And yet it was not the first time, and unfortunately not the last time, this neighborhood saw a long snaking soup line. The big difference? People on Saturday were shelling out $5 for a container of Sweet Corn Chowder and Chicken Gumbo and then maybe another $10 for a photo and autograph from the Soup Nazi. But when you stood in the real Kensington soup line, you were there to feed yourself and your family with no money in your pockets and nothing in your belly.
Back in 2004, the St. Francis Inn Soup Kitchen on Kensington Avenue turned 25 and throughout that quarter century, thousands of people stood in line to the former go-go bar location trying to get food. Every day, food was laid out and served by Franciscan friars, nuns and volunteers for those who stood in the soup line.
Fast forward seven years and this Spirit Reporter is in line on Girard Avenue with about 40 people in front of me on the coldest Saturday of my life. Wedged between the Poison Apple Tattoo Shop and a nail salon, the only thing keeping me from freezing to death is blues harmonica player Larry Wise, stationed at curbside, who’s tapping his foot on a drum cymbal and crooning that, "my baby, my baby makes my temperature hot!" (Tell ya what Larry, if your baby makes my temperature hot right now, I’ll put a $20 bill in your bucket!)
Behind me, a guy known as "Big Tuna" pulls out his cell phone to call a buddy.
"Dude, she’s [his girlfriend] getting her nails done and there’s this soup place next door and the Soup Nazi guy from Seinfeld is there, so I’m standing in line instead of sitting in the nail place."
But other than Big Tuna, the rest of the people knew the Soup Nazi was at Doc’s and stood in line to be degraded.
It was about four months ago when Darryl O’Connor opened DOC’s Gourmet Café and Soup Bar at Front and Girard. Emblazoned on his chef jacket reads, "DOC’s ICE CAFÉ". What gives? "I make my own water-ice," said Doc. "We sell our soup in the summer, but not like in the winter so that’s when we have our water-ice."
With over 100 soup varieties in the hot months, a chilled carrot ginger, chilled spring pea with mint or a golden summer tomato soup just might be the ticket.
How does one know what kind of soup DOC’s has on the menu? Call them at 215-423-5350 and they’ll give you the soups of the day. They deliver and they cater and they make sandwiches like hoagies, wraps, meatballs and even quesadillas.
But back to the Soup Nazi. If I had to be a Seinfeld character, I know I would be Costanza. I’m a George. My parents are George’s parents. And I knew the Soup Nazi would have me for lunch. And I knew I would screw up my chances of getting soup because I wouldn’t get the bread or I would order wrong or ask for extra napkins and tick him off even more.
With my $5 out I got to the counter and said, "One chicken gumbo, please." And I moved down the line trying not to make eye contact.
But Thomas, dressed in a DOC’s café chef jacket and white bandanna around his neck, could not be any nicer and appreciative of the crowd. 16 years after his appearance on Seinfeld, this guy knew what a good thing he had.
"People come up to me all the time and say, ‘You’re so nice; you’re nothing like the Soup Nazi at all’," said Thomas. "And then my son tells them they should live with me."
The DOC himself spooned my chicken gumbo into my cup and did indeed give me a thick cut wedge of rye bread wrapped in foil. As I turned to leave, I made eye contact with Thomas and he hit me with a machine gun rat tat tat statement of- "NO SOUP FOR YOU!"
Cross that one of my bucket list.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Black Vulture Gallery Opening Reception Tonight!
Black Vulture Gallery - 208 E. Girard Ave.
As part of Frankford Ave.'s November 1st Friday, Black Vulture Gallery will open its doors from 6:30 to 10:30pm and will feature over 50 artists, and complementary food and drink. Come out and welcome this new business to the neighborhood!
As part of Frankford Ave.'s November 1st Friday, Black Vulture Gallery will open its doors from 6:30 to 10:30pm and will feature over 50 artists, and complementary food and drink. Come out and welcome this new business to the neighborhood!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Girard Fest! September 25th; Calling Vendors and Volunteers
First Annual ‘Girard Fest’, Set for Saturday, September 25, 2010.
Philadelphia, PA…The GIRARD BUSINESS & ARTS ASSOCIATION (GBAA) a non-profit is proud to announce the First Annual GIRARD FEST Street Festival, Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 11 am to 7 pm, rain or shine, on Girard Avenue from Front Street to 4th Street.
This first of its kind festival is a cooperative effort between the newly reorganized GBAA and Philadelphia F/M, Film & Music Festival. The event will feature live music with bands performing on three stages, local businesses along Girard Avenue, as well as a variety of arts & crafts and fair vendors including a food court, a beer garden, and a children’s play area. Special events are also scheduled at the Crane Arts Center (1400 N. American Street) and at the Lehigh Avenue Arts Festival along Lehigh Avenue at Belgrade Street. A Philadelphia Trolley car will be providing a loop throughout the day to connect all the venues.
“This is going to be a huge event for our neighborhood and will showcase the diverse shops and art galleries on and around this section of Girard Avenue,” stated Nicole Marcote, president of GBAA and owner of Quince Fine Foods, a Girard Avenue business. “We are seeing tremendous growth in the businesses being drawn to this part of town. We hope that this festival will attract the public and give them the opportunity to see just how much we have to offer in the city’s newest trend setting hot spot”.
The GBAA is currently soliciting vendors for the Fest. Space is priced at $100 for food & beverage vendors and $50 for non-food vendors, for a 10’x10’ area (with a 20% discount for GBAA members). To reserve your space with PayPal payment, please visit the Festival website at www.GirardFest.com or contact Ed Denny at 215-634-1141, for vendor inquiries and information. For information about GBAA membership please contact Nicole Marcote, at nicolemarcote@yahoo.com 215-232-3425.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Art + Soul Food
A meet and greet with Darryl McCray of “Cornbread” fame, a former Brewerytown resident dubbed the father of modern graffiti. Catch the trailer to his upcoming documentary “Cry of the City” by producer Sean McKnight setting the record straight on Cornbread.
A recent mural installation by acclaimed muralist and street artist, Shepard Fairey. Shepard Fairey is most known for designing the iconic Obama poster during the 2008 presidential election, as well as the Obey/ Andre the Giant campaign.
20 area businesses and re purposed storefronts form an eclectic mix of art galleries highlighting mostly local talent. From the dry cleaners to the sneaker shop and even the sidewalks themselves the entire avenue becomes one enormous celebration of art. Couple that celebration with the delectable tastes of the some of the city’s best soul food restaurants and you get Art + SoulFood.
