Library recipe contest marks National Nutrition Month

It is mentioned that each recipe tells a narrative. For Alina Teplinsky of Honest Garden, the recipe is a conventional Ukrainian borscht soup, and the story is of household and friendship.  

“This recipe goes from technology to technology — my grandmother, my mom, me. I feel you will need to preserve the traditions and share the traditions with the individuals,” Teplinsky mentioned. 

Borscht is eaten all year long in Ukraine and is nutritious and filling. “It brings households collectively. It at all times serves because the dish for household dinners or throughout lunch,” Teplinsky mentioned.

Teplinsky is considered one of many Honest Garden residents participating in a multicultural-recipe contest at Maurice Pine Library to mark Nationwide Vitamin Month in March. 

The Honest Garden library is specializing in the theme “Rejoice a World of Flavors” and internet hosting group occasions in addition to the competition. 

“Sharing meals and recipes is an effective way to introduce information, flavors, cooking methods, and convey youth and adults collectively once more by their native libraries,” mentioned Marla Klein, partnership coordinator on the Bergen County Division of Well being Providers, a sponsor for the occasion.  

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The month-long initiative contains different libraries which can be members of the Bergen County Cooperative Library System. Presently 13 libraries are collaborating: Carlstadt, Ridgewood, Lyndhurst, Mahwah, Ridgefield Park, Allendale, Garfield, Lodi, Higher Saddle River, Saddle Brook, Honest Garden, Englewood and Cliffside Park. 

“The libraries will likely be submitting photographs, movies, photos, recipes. It’s as much as every library how they make the most of the theme,” Klein mentioned. Two libraries chosen as winners will obtain a wholesome consuming program for patrons and a e-book on the subject.