Culinary Connections
Social Good Through Good Food.
Colorado Springs, CO
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Our Next Cook Day Will Be
April 18th!
Featured Cuisine:
Syrian Cuisine,
finished with an Afghan Dessert
Choose your meal • Order online • Visit us on 4/18 to Pick Up Your Meal!
Where: First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada Ave
When: Saturday, April 18th, 4:30-5:30pm
This April, we’re showcasing Syrian and Afghan flavors and culinary traditions!
Syrian Regular Meal – $25
Chicken Shawarma, Fattoush, Riz bi Sha'rieh, Cucumber Yogurt Dip, Baba Ganoush, Pita, and Afghan Baklava
Syrian Vegetarian Meal – $25
Falafel, Fattoush, Riz bi Sha'rieh, Cucumber Yogurt Dip, Baba Ganoush, Pita, and Afghan Baklava
Fattoush
Riz bi Sha'rieh
Cucumber Yogurt Dip
Afghan Baklava
Baba Ganoush
Pita
The following major food allergens are used as ingredients: milk, tree nuts, wheat, and sesame. Please notify Culinary Connections staff for more information about these ingredients. Ingredients may also be made in a factory that also processes eggs, peanuts, fish, soy, or crustacean.
A new kind of community.
Refugee-status chefs prepare traditional meals… you experience new cultures.
Every meal supports job training, certification, and fair wages for our chefs.
Each purchase builds understanding, creates opportunity, and invests in a more connected Colorado Springs.
Culinary Connections is a platform for women to share their culture with their new communities- while also supporting their families.
Your purchase supports newcomers to the Pikes Peak region.
A is the oldest daughter of a family of seven. She is about to start her final year of high school. A works hard to take care of her family. She also works as a respite caretaker for her younger special needs sister. A loves to cook and has learned so much from her mom, F. She has dreams of going to college and traveling the world!
I is from Aleppo, Syria and lived in Turkey for 10 years before moving to the US in 2013. She has four children—three live with her in the US, and one married daughter is in Istanbul. Her husband works for DoorDash and tutors Arabic. I dreams of opening her own restaurant and hopes her children will attend university. She speaks Arabic and Turkish, loves cooking and exercise, and is excited to share her culinary skills with the community
A is I's daughter. She is 20 years old and just graduated from high school. She is from Aleppo, Syria and lived in Turkey during part of her childhood (age 7-18). She is the third child in her family. She enjoys baking, biking and drawing. Her favorite subject in school is math. Her dreams for her life are to go to college and work as an interior designer. She is engaged to her fiancé who is living in Turkey. She has visited Texas but prefers Colorado. She misses her sister who is in Turkey and some aspects of life there.
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