Taste History hosted Three Senses Field Trip to Musical Swings in Downtown West Palm Beach and Palermo’s Bakery in Boynton Beach for First Graders from Trinity Lutheran School
West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach, Florida – – – The sense of sight, sense of hearing and sense of taste were the featured sensory perceptions for the Taste History field trip held for first graders from Trinity Lutheran School in Delray Beach on March 3rd.
The program was the Taste History Culinary Tour Three Senses Field Trip that included a trip to a temporary art installation entitled the Musical Swings in Downtown West Palm Beach which featured the senses of sight and hearing. Following the Musical Swings, the field trip traveled to Palermo’s Bakery in Boynton Beach for the sense of taste where the first graders learned how to make the Cannoli pastry. At the Musical Swings, the first graders met Sybille Welter, Coordinator for the West Palm Beach Art in Public Places and Commissioner Sylvia Moffett who both received a colorful swing set poster designed by the class.
Taste History is operated by the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History which is a non-profit 501c3. In addition to the field trip, the tours are routinely offered for all ages on Saturdays plus private tours.
The Musical Swings offered an engaging educational opportunity for the first grade students from Trinity Lutheran. They learned about the history of West Palm Beach, geography, music, mural art and gravity at the Musical Swings; and the history of and how to make the Cannoli pastry at Palermo’s. “Visiting the Musical Swings and Palermo’s Bakery were a vibrant and enlightening experience for the first graders. It was a thinking-outside-the-box field trip and the first time this group visited Clematis Street in Downtown West Palm Beach,” says Lori J. Durante of Taste History who created and organized the field trip. This program complemented Trinity’s STEM curriculum and Taste History’s outreach program.
Trinity Lutheran Church was established in 1904 by German settlers to Delray Beach and the school was incorporated in 1948 and is the oldest Lutheran school in Florida. Mrs. Kathy Wilsher is Trinity Lutheran’s first grade teacher who is noted for her nurturing ways and inventiveness in the classroom.
Since the installation of the Musical Swings in Downtown West Palm Beach, Taste History has taken 3 previous tours to experience it. The Musical Swings in Downtown West Palm Beach created unexpected fun memories for the tour guests.
About the Musical Swings:
The interactive installation consists of a series of musical swings. When used all together, the swings compose a musical piece in which certain melodies emerge only through cooperation. It’s a game where from the start you need to adjust to the actions of others.
The Swings allow participants to make music with their entire bodies, to connect to one another and to have a sense of ownership of public space due to the music they create. The result is a giant collective instrument that brings together people of all ages and backgrounds. The project offers a new experience in collective music making, available to enliven urban spaces, festivals, special events, and more.
The City of West Palm Beach’s Art in Public Places Program (AiPP) coordinates art installations within urban environments. The AiPP, Downtown Development Authority (DDA), Knight Foundation and a Private entity worked in partnership to bring The Swings and the DDA was designated the lead agency to facilitate the project.
About Palermo’s Bakery:
Palermo’s Bakery is located on Taste History’s Bakery Trail. The bakery was established more than 125 years ago in Sicily, Italy and is still family-owned and operated by the Palermo-Orlando family. The featured pastry for the field trip was the Cannoli which originated in the 1920s in Palermo City, Sicily. Chef Anna Orlando led the first graders in making a Cannoli pastry. They also learned the history of the Cannoli which originated in Sicily, Italy.
About Taste History Culinary Tours:
Taste History is a weekly cultural epicurean tour for all ages that celebrate family-owned bakeries, eateries, juice bars and tea shops; local art galleries and emerging arts districts. Each Taste History Tour is distinct offering guests an enlightening experience of food tastings that are Floribbean and New Fusion cuisines at family-owned eateries; alternate trips along the tour’s Bakery Trail; and visits to local art shops in emerging historic districts off-the-beaten-path. Created in 2011, the non-profit Taste History is the first culinary history tour of its kind in Palm Beach County.
Taste History has grown to alternately feature more than five cities including West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Lantana, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach. “Each city on the tour has its own unique cuisines, culture, art and personality,” says Lori J. Durante, Executive Tour Director of the Taste History Culinary Tours.
The Taste History Culinary Tours delivers an engaging taste of the cuisine, culture, art and history of historic districts, emerging arts districts and unique off-the-beaten-path areas in West Palm Beach; Lake Worth and Lantana; and Delray Beach and Boynton Beach. The Taste History sponsors include Macy’s. Taste History has been ranked in USA Today’s 10 Best and also rated by Vacation Idea Dream Magazine as one of the Top 22 Best Things to Do in West Palm Beach. West Palm Beach Magazine designated Taste History as the “Greatest Hits Tour.” And, the Red Carnation Hotel Collection has selected Taste History Culinary Tours as one of Eight Most Unusual Palm Beach Tours.
Taste History incorporates a rotation of cuisine tastings representing varied cultures. This epicurean tour combines history, culture and cuisine therefore Taste History infuses food tastings with the history of the State of Florida and the local area along with visits to historic buildings and art shops.
Lori J. Durante, Executive Tour Director, developed the non-profit Taste History Culinary Tours as an extension of the Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach that began in 2004 which has hosted more than 8,000 people. Combining the culinary and narrated tours, more than 11,000 people have been hosted, to date. “I took the Narrated Bus Tour and enriched it by adding food tastings which morphed into the Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County,” says Lori J. Durante.
Other rankings are from the Huffington Post which designated Taste History as one of the “…established food tours in Florida.” VisitFlorida said about Taste History “…the mission is both education and entertainment.” The international news agency The Culture Trip has included the Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County in its roundup of Florida’s 10 Best Food Festivals and Fiestas.
Effective January 1, 2015, Taste History rates changed to $45 to $60 per person; free for children under age 14 (accompanied by a paid adult family member). Tickets can be purchased at tastehistoryculinarytours.org
Pre-payment is required. For information, call 561-243-2662 or 561-638-8277 E-mail tour@tastehistoryculinarytours.org. Private group and team building tours are also available. The food tours board at Macy’s (Outside at the East Entrance) located at 801 N. Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL.
Offered year-round, the Taste History is a four-hour food-centric narrated excursion of bus riding and four to six blocks of walking through historic districts for alternate visits to bakeries, eateries, juice bars, tea bars and markets for food tastings, food history, food culture facts and foodways information and. At least three to four eateries are visited per Taste History tour along with trips to historic buildings, cultural centers or art shops. Tour guests meet the restaurant owners and chefs; and directors and artists of the cultural centers and art galleries. Florida history is narrated by a guide.
Sponsored by Macy’s, Carl and Iris Apfel, the Patricia Ann Ravo Fund; and Boris & Edith Rueger Fund, the Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County program is a food eating, art and history experience offered by the non-profit Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History (MLFH). This culinary tour primarily consists of travels to historic West Palm Beach (Various Districts) and Lake Worth on the first Saturday of each month; Lake Worth and Lantana on the second Saturday of each month; and historic Delray Beach and Boynton Beach on the third and fourth Saturdays of each month, year-round at 11am plus private and team building tours are offered during the weekday.
The non-profit Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County, Florida has been designated one of the official community event partners for the State of Florida’s Viva Florida initiative.
2016 dates for the Taste History Culinary Tours:
Saturday, January 9, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, January 16, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, January 23, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach (January 23, 2016 is Sold-Out)
Saturday, February 6, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, February 13, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, February 20, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, February 27, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, March 12, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, March 19, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, April 2, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, April 9, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, April 16, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, April 23, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, May 7, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, May 14, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, May 21, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, May 28, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, June 4, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, June 11, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, June 18, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, June 25, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, July 9, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, July 16, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton
Saturday, July 23, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, August 6, 2015 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, August 13, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, August 20, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, August 27, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, September 10, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, September 17, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, September 24, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, October 1, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, October 8, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, October 15, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, October 22, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, November 5, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, November 12, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, November 19, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, November 26, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
Saturday, December 3, 2016 – West Palm Beach/Lake Worth
Saturday, December 10, 2016 – Lake Worth/Lantana
Saturday, December 17, 2016 – Delray Beach/Boynton Beach
About MLFH: The Museum of Lifestyle& Fashion History (MLFH) is a non-profit 501c3 organization as designated by the IRS. MLFH was established in year 1999 in Palm Beach County, Florida. The Mission of MLFH is to offer educational programs, and history and retrospective anthropology exhibits showcasing lifestyle, cultures, people, places, fashion trends, clothes, architecture, furnishings, decorative arts, interior designs, locomotives and toys, and information about popular uses of artifacts by people/events of various periods of time. In year 2004, MLFH premiered the Narrated Bus Tours of Historic Delray Beach, Florida. The tours have been hugely popular and rated the Most Unique Travel Gem by AAA Travel Home & Away Magazine. The Historic Tours have hosted more than 8,000 passengers. The mission of the tours is to showcase the historic cultural lifestyle, people, and places. In October 2011, MLFH premiered its newest program the Taste History Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County. The purpose of the Taste History Culinary Tours is to infuse food history, food culture, foodways and food tastings into facts about the historic districts and pioneer people of West Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Lake Worth, and Lantana, Florida (Palm Beach County) along with highlighting art galleries, emerging artists, historic buildings and showcasing the contributions of early settlers. There are more than 40 culinary partners for this program that include bakeries, cafes, historic buildings and art galleries.
About Macy’s: Macy’s, the largest retail brand of Macy’s, Inc., delivers fashion and affordable luxury to customers at more than 800 locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Macy’s stores and macys.com offer distinctive assortments including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy’s is known for such epic events as Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks(R) and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade(R), as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Building on a 150-year tradition, Macy’s helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities that make a difference in the lives of our customers.
About Viva Florida: In 2013, Florida reached a significant milestone, the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de León’s arrival on Florida’s east coast. Building on the success of Viva Florida 500 in 2013, The Florida Department of State continues to work with partners statewide to promote cultural and historical experiences through a multi-year campaign called Viva Florida, which promotes 12,000 years of Florida’s people, places and cultural achievements. For more information visit VivaFlorida.org