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 [Read More…]
Category: Food and Drink
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]