by Cory Marie Podielski | Dec 9, 2016 | Cooking, Craft, Featured Artists, Interview, Seasons
The month of December is a special time at the Folk School. Events, parties, food, themed classes, concerts, dances and performances unite the community in the holiday spirit. When the wreaths, garlands, and handcrafted ornaments appear in early December, we know the...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Sep 1, 2016 | Cooking, Craft, Featured Artists, Interview
Are you ever inspired during the holiday season and decide to try your hand at making a gingerbread house from scratch? Annnnnd then your dreams of edible decorative glory come crashing down when your gingerbread house looks more like a shanty shack than a storybook...
by Cory Marie Podielski | May 21, 2016 | Cooking, Craft, Featured Artists, Folk School
Every year, we have a sweet tooth soothing tradition in Emily Buehler’s bread baking class. On Thursday, students team up to make a special recipe: Emily’s Mom’s Sticky Buns. The beginning of the week is spent learning the basics of breads like...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Nov 4, 2015 | Cooking, Folk School
Halloween weekend brought delicious dismemberment to the Folk School. Don’t panic! All the butchery occurred under the expert tutelage of Mark Rosenstein in the Cooking Studio for the class “Whole Bird Weekend,” where students learned advanced techniques for preparing...
by Cory Marie Podielski | Dec 26, 2012 | Cooking, Featured Artists, Folk School, Interview
I first met Emily my very first week at the Folk School in January of 2011. I was a work/study and she was teaching bread making. That week, snow had dumped onto the campus leaving sheets of white across the fields and a chill in our bones (our main task as...
