Bruce Newbury broadcasts live from the museum this Sunday!

Local radio host Bruce Newbury will broadcast his show, "The Tasting Room," live from the Culinary Arts Museum on Sunday, April 10, 2011.  "The Tasting Room" airs Sundays from 11:00 am - 12:00 noon. 

If you can't make it to the museum on Sunday, tune in to your local radio station: AM790 in the Providence - Newport, RI - New Bedford - Cape Cod MA area, 830AM in the Boston - Worcester MA - NH - ME - VT area or 980 AM in the New London - Eastern CT region.

Special promotion for the Culinary Arts Museum

Eversave.com has chosen the Culinary Arts Museum as the featured save for the Providence area, starting today. The promotion, which runs through Thursday, offers buyers two admissions for the price of one ($7 for a $14 value).  Click the link below for more details.

http://www.eversave.com/providence

We hope to see you here soon!

From the Midway to the Runway

If you've been to the museum, this piece of fashion art may look familiar to you.  This dress, constructed with laminated vintage string bean can labels and cellophane tape, was made by fifteen-year-old Monica Hofstadter.  She designed the dress expressly for the museum's "Country Fair to Culinary Olympics" exhibit, which was installed in 2007.  Monica's inspiration came from a 1964 creation made of butter cartons for Princess Kay of the Milky Way, the ambassador to the Minnesota State Fair, who is responsible for the promotion of the dairy industry.


Now in her second year of the Fashion Design program at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, Monica has recently won the Student Prize in the Vogue Knitting "Magic of Mohair" design competition, sponsored by Mohair South Africa.  As a finalist in the competition, her mohair dress was showcased January 21-23 at Vogue Knitting LIVE in New York City.  On January 22, it was announced that she was the student winner.  As a result, her dress, along with instructions for knitting, will be featured in Vogue Knitting magazine, on the Mohair South Africa website and in other Mohair South Africa media.

Please join us in congratulating Monica for this great accomplishment!!

The Culinary Arts Museum will be closed during the holiday break

The winter break at Johnson & Wales begins at the conclusion of the work day on Friday, December17, 2010 and runs through Monday, January 3, 2011.  We will be closed for business during that time.  

The staff here at the Culinary Arts Museum wishes you a safe and happy holiday season. 

See you in 2011!

The "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" postcards pictured above are from the collection of the Culinary Arts Museum

Local harvest at the Culinary Arts Museum

Local foods were on the table and consumed with relish when The Southside Community Land Trust held their annual Harvesting Hope Breakfast at the Culinary Arts Museum on November 10, 2010.

The SCLT will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2011 - three decades of partnership with community gardeners and neighbors who are committed to transforming unused urban areas into productive food gardens in Providence's Southside and West End.

750 families are now growing, eating and preserving food at over 50 community gardens across the city (including the 13 that SCLT owns and manages), the group's three-quarter acre City Farm and a larger program, the Urban Edge Farm, on 35 acres in Cranston.

At this year's Harvest Breakfast, Pranzi Catering of Providence served Rhode Island johnnycakes, along with local honey, Narragansett Creamery spreads and chutney from Marcia's Chutneys of Warwick, Barden Family Orchard apples, Zephyr Farm eggs (just gathered from the Urban Edge Farm), homemade granola from The Providence Granola Project, fresh juices, other fruit, baked goodies, and more.  Pranzi Catering is a certified green caterer, and they buy all of their produce from local farmers markets.

In honor of the breakfast, the museum mounted a temporary display of vintage seed packets, a USDA bulletin from 1930 on "The City Home Garden" and a 1911 story of the children's school farm in Thomas Jefferson Park in New York City, where a thousand children planted 7,000 seeds on the opening day of the season.

The program included tributes to the joys of growing your own food by two Providence immigrants from Liberia, Garmai Mawalo and Gbassy Brown, who also did a song and dance.

Teenage gardener Eugenio DaSilva is pictured at left, sharing his story of husk cherries. Eugenio is a student at The Met School in Providence.

Rhode Island...Small State, Big Taste! featured on NBC 10

Rhode Island...Small State, Big Taste!

On exhibit from October 4, 2010 - July 1, 2011

This image was created by Don Bousquet, solely for the purposes of this exhibit. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

Our newest exhibit here at the Culinary Arts Museum is set to open in just a few weeks!
Come and explore the diversity and quirkiness that is Rhode Island food culture, where dynamites are more than just explosives, where New York System does not refer to a mode of transportation, and where quahog is not a town.

The exhibit highlights thirteen local businesses, along with the Rhode Island foods that they are known for serving.  Don't miss your chance to indulge in the eccentricities that are Rhode Island foods!!