Farmers Market Workshop with Brooklyn Brewery House Chef Andrew Gerson

Saturday, November 9, 12 - 2pm
Molly Malloy's @ Reading Terminal Market
12th & Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA

The Brooklyn Brewery House Chef will be hanging out at Philadelphia’s historic farmers market, now in it's 114th year! Sourcing ingredients from the person that is responsible for their existence is just about his favorite thing. Right after cooking them. All weekend, he'll be cooking up some of his favorite finds from the market. Oh, and there will be beer too. Stop by for a sip, a (cooking) tip and a recipe.

Markets have been a part of Philadelphia’s history since the city’s development by William Penn in the late seventeenth century. When William Penn’s managers established the town of Philadelphia, one of their first actions was to herd the ragtag crowd of farmers, fisherman, and huntsman, who were hawking their goods all over the bustling settlement, into an open area at the foot of what was known as High Street, along the Delaware River. Soon the so-called ‘Jersey Market’ (because most of the hucksters were from the neighboring state) began to expand westward in the middle of the thoroughfare that had been appropriately renamed Market Street. With the growth of Philadelphia came the expansion of public markets. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the string of market sheds had become six blocks long, making the easternmost mile of the city’s main street a veritable babble of farmers and food purveyors on most days.