Culinary Programs at Your Local Library

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Culinary Programs at Your Local Library

• Dec. 5, 2008

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Programming Ideas for Kids

• Taffy Pull
• Cupcake Decorating
• Food Sculptures
• Dessert Sushi
• Around the World Foods

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Taffy Pull
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Cupcake Decorating

• Supplies-
• Cupcakes, 1 for each participant
• American Buttercream Frosting in a variety of
  colors
• Piping Bags or Ziploc Bags

• Piping Tips
• Various Candies to Decorate with
• Modeling Chocolate

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Cupcake Decorating

• Age Good for all ages. Younger children may need
  some assistance. You might not want to do the
  piping activities with children under 8.
• Description Decorating cupcakes is so much fun!
  Learn to pipe icing in interesting ways and
  finish the cakes off with candy decorations. Then
  eat!

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Cupcake Decorating

• Set up each table with several small bags of
  frosting in different colors, piping tips and
  bowls of candies.
• Demonstrate a few easy piping techniques. Any
  cake decorating book can explain several.
• Pass out cupcakes. One for each child.
• Let em at it! (You might want to take pictures
  of each child and their cupcake before the
  snacking starts.)

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Cupcake Decorating

• Recipe for American Buttercream-

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Cupcake Decorating

• Recipe for Modeling Chocolate-

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Cupcake Decorating

• Volunteers- Depending on the age of the
  participants, you might need a number of these
  but teens would be great to help out with younger
  kids. Theres going to be a lot of clean up as
  well!

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Cupcake Decorating

• If you dont want to make the supplies, they can
  be purchased (or donated by) local bakeries. Even
  the frosting can be purchased in bulk. It may be
  tinted by the bakery or by library staff.

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Food Sculptures

• Age Suggest upper elementary. Obviously, if you
  want to use knives, do it with an older age
  group.
• Description Check out the books of Jim Victor
  and make wacky sculptures from fruits and
  vegetables.

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Food Sculptures

• Supplies-

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Dessert Sushi
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Foods Around the World

• Ages
• Description

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Adult Programming

• Culinary Contest
• Canning Preserving
• Grilling
• Basic Techniques
• Cake Decorating

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Culinary Contests

• Description Libraries dont have the facilities
  to put on traditional bake-offs or cook-offs but
  you can stage a fun contest to encourage people
  to show off their cooking skills and creativity.

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Culinary Contests

• Supplies-
• Entry cards
• Space with tables for people to display visit
• Ballots
• Drinks

• Utensils, paper plates, napkins etc.
• Prizes

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Culinary Contests

• Cooking and baking contests are fun when they are
  tailored for the community. Is your town famous
  for its apples? Or asparagus? Or maybe for its
  ostrich meat? Use that as the theme for your
  contest! Require all entries to include this
  ingredient like on Iron Chef.

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Culinary Contests

• Decide on the theme for your contest.
• Decide how you want to structure your contest.
  Can cooks submit any kind of recipe or will you
  do categories of competition such as appetizers,
  main dishes or desserts? In the case of bake
  offs, cookies, cakes, or pies are good
  categories.

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Culinary Contests

• 3. Create an entry form that includes entrants
  name, age, and contact information. Require that
  this form be turned in with a complete recipe at
  least one week before the contest date.
• 4. You will need a venue where each entrant will
  have at least half a table to display their dish.
  

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Culinary Contests

• 5. Allow the public to walk through and try a
  sample of each recipe. Then they can vote for
  their favorite.
• 6. Give prizes! Cookbooks and gift certificates
  to kitchen supply stores make great prizes.
• 7. If you have enough recipes, you can even put
  them together into your own cookbook to sell or
  give away.

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Culinary Contests

• Volunteers can be used to process entries, set up
  the event, monitor drinks and utensils, and count
  votes.

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Canning Preserving
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Grilling
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Basic Techniques
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Cake Decorating
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Suppliers

• Gordon Food Service- Good
• William Sonoma- Bad
• Paper Supply companies- Good
• Kitchen Outlet stores- Good
• Dollar Store- Measuring cups, take away
  containers
• Craft stores like Micheals- cake decorating
  supplies

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Presenters Possible Partners

• Go local!
• Is there is there a local bakery or restaurant
  you really like? Talk to their chef.
• Find someone whos really enthusiastic about what
  they do. Do they have a specialty? Like grilling
  or baking? Some will do it free for the
  advertising. Some may want to be paid.
• Local culinary schools are good, as well. If its
  just a talk, it will be cheaper. For hands on
  teaching the cost will be greater.
• Nutritionists from local medical centers
  hospitals are a possibility too.