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More
than 130 people attended the
8th Children & Parents Day celebrating the Pineapple Fruit
Sponsored by Target
Pineapple-infused cooking demos were conducted by local
chefs and bakers
Event celebrated Florida’s 500th anniversary and National
Nutrition Month
Local artists conducted activities
Boynton Beach, Florida - -- Sunday, March 3, 2013, the
pineapple fruit had a starring role at the 8th Children &
Parents Day. The family event was sponsored by Target stores
and presented by the non-profit Museum of Lifestyle &
Fashion History.
Children & Parents Day celebrated the pineapple fruit for
National Nutrition Month and the 500th anniversary of
Florida entitled Viva Florida. Pineapple fruit farming had a
major historic impact during the agricultural development of
Palm Beach County and the State of Florida from 1860 to the
1930s. The Master of Ceremony was Virginia Sinicki, Morning
Co-Host of the KVJ Show on Wild 95.5. Children & Parents Day
was held at the historic Boynton Woman’s Club in
Boynton Beach, Florida.
Kingston & Associates sponsored a significant donation of
their Sugar Pines MD2 Gold brand of pineapples. The
farm-to-table lunch, smoothies, cooking demos and kids
cooking classes infused the Kingston pineapples.
Personal appearances were by real farmers from the Florida
Farm Bureau Federation and the Palm Beach County and Western
Palm Beach County Farm Bureau. These agriculture bureaus
participated in the event by hosting an information and
farm-related activity station pertaining to farming in the
State of Florida.
Children & Parents Day also featured pineapple fruit-infused
cooking demos, Make-Me-A-Pineapple kids cooking classes,
pineapple-themed arts and crafts stations with local
artists, souvenir photos in the pineapple patch, a personal
appearance by the Pineapple
Farmer Patty, entertainment, music and an all-you-can eat
farm-to-table lunch.
Famed Chef Chrissy Benoit of The Little House restaurant of
Boynton Beach conducted a cooking demo and kids cooking
class highlighting the use of the fresh pineapple fruit.
Chef Benoit demonstrated the Pineapple Salsa with tortilla
chips and created a Pineapple Upside-Side Down Cake for the
kids cooking class. The tortilla chips were sponsored by the
Tortilleria Gallo de Oro of Lake Worth. Bonnie Brown of
Bonnie’s Best Bests in Boynton Beach created Tropical Fruit
Pineapple Cupcakes; and Chef Phillip Herman of the Secret
Garden Café of Boynton Beach developed an amazing 5-course
farm-to-table meal that incorporated the Sugar Pines
Pineapples. Pineapple smoothies were created live at the
event by The Juice Bar of Lake Worth. South Tech Culinary
Academy students assisted the chefs with the kitchen
management, demos and kids cooking classes.
A specially designed pineapple fruit-shaped cake made with
Sugar Pines pineapples created by Pastry Chef Lara Fisher of
Cakes by Lara of Lantana was unveiled at the Children
& Parents Day.
Other food ingredients and fresh produce were from the
Boynton Urban Farm and Target grocery store.
Pineapple fruit cutting, tasting and planting demos was
showcased by the Boynton Garden Club.
Pineapple-themed arts and crafts were the fun interactive
experience for the children and their families. Local
artists from Boynton Beach and Delray Beach hosted
creativity stations that offered arts-making of pineapple
masks, ceramic tile painting, art drawing and coloring. The
artists included Rolando Chang Barrero of ActivistArtista,
Barb Lentz of Art-Sea Living, Nadine Hamil of Artful
Dreamers and Inge Behrens of CIB Art Gallery. The CIB
Gallery hosted a 3-week display of the pineapple art work
created by the kids at Children & Parents Day. Students from
American Heritage School of Boca/Delray National Honor
Science Society were the official student volunteers for the
arts and craft stations. And, the welcome greeters were from
the National Honor Society of Palm Beach Lakes High School
of West Palm Beach, Florida.
The 8th annual Children & Parents Day is an official
Community Event Partner for the 500th anniversary of the
State of Florida, Viva Florida. Pineapple Farmer Patty made
a personal appearance at the event and conducted storybook
reading about the history of pineapple farming in Palm Beach
County and a pineapple magic show. And, souvenir photos were
hosted in the Pineapple Fruit Patch.
For more information, call 561-243-2662 or e-mail
Pineapple@ChildrenParentsDay.org
The purpose of this festive program is to provide a
fun-filled day of family adventures with arts, crafts and
history education activities for children.
Children & Parents Day was hosted at the historic Boynton
Woman's Club, 1010 S. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach. The
Boynton Woman’s Club is an original 1926 Addison Mizner-
designed building that is on the National Registry of
Historic Places. Additional support has been provided by
Celebrations at the Boynton Woman’s Club, The Palm Beach
Post, the Patricia Ann Ravo Fund, and the Boris & Edith
Rueger Fund. Sponsorship opportunities are
still available.
The Museum of Lifestyle& Fashion History was established in
year 1999 and is a non-profit 501c3 organization with the
mission 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
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