Food and Drink - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Supermarket choices baffle shopper

Not her household's usual shopper, Barbara Collom of Mount Airy confronts the baffling array of product choices for any one brand at her local Pathmark Supermarket. For instance, she opts…

March 11, 2014

ANIMALS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Eating energy bars made from crickets

Weavers Way Food Coop has introduced a new line of energy bars - ones made with crickets. On Tuesday, staff members at the Chestnut Hill store sampled Chapul’s Thai Cricket…

February 26, 2014

BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT Food and Drink

French Bistro Jazz Cafe gets ready to open

Partners Robert Bynum and Chef Al Paris are excited that construction is nearing an end at the long empty site of the former Melting Pot Restaurant and that their French…

December 23, 2013

African-American BUSINESS Food and Drink

McDonald’s high school worker aims higher

Danielle Taylor of Germantown, a 12th grader home schooled through Agora Cyber Charter School, works 30 hours a week at the Chestnut Hill McDonald’s. She’s paid at the rate of…

December 5, 2013

Children Current Affairs Family

Empty Bowl Dinner fights hunger and homelessness

Twenty five percent of Philadelphians live below the poverty level. This somber statistic was delivered last night to hundreds of diners, along with delicious soups and breads donated by dozens…

November 20, 2013

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink

Ploughing new ground at urban farm

Scott Blunk employs a moldboard plow to break new ground at the Henry Got Crops Farm in Roxborough, Philadelphia. Blunk, who worked for the John Deere company at one time,…

November 20, 2013

BUSINESS Education Food and Drink

Herr’s potato chip factory tour

The story goes that in 1853, a restaurant patron at a New York resort who complained of a soggy french fry gave rise to the invention of the potato chip.…

August 14, 2013

Books Food and Drink STORES

For the love of books and cupcakes

Claudia Stemler (right) and Laura Belmonte (left) are cramming bookshelves wherever they can into their“ brunettes’ bookshopbakery” – in a low swinging door and into upright support columns. They hope…

August 4, 2013

ART Education ENTERTAINMENT

Combines yoga, hula hooping

Vanessa Hazzard-Tillman teaches hula hooping in East Falls, entertains at parties and at the Public Eye: Artists Animals July 4th Vegan Potluck picnic in Harper’s Meadow in Chestnut Hill, she…

July 11, 2013

Current Affairs ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink

Bhutan refugees renew farming in Philly

At the age of six, Bishnu Kamar (left) fled her native Bhutan where, she says, the government was trying to kill its own people. She lived the next twenty-two years…

June 3, 2013