{"id":4644,"date":"2015-11-19T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2016-09-12T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:30:58","slug":"rumps-restaurant-young-readers-league-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2015\/rumps-restaurant-young-readers-league-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Rump’s Restaurant – Young Readers League Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past month we’ve been celebrating the Young Readers League: a book reading event based on the idea that all the kids in the community read the same book. \u00a0It’s similar to our One City, One Story program, but for kids. \u00a0Sponsored by The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library<\/a>, and partnering with Vroman’s\u00a0Bookstore<\/a>, we’ve all been enjoying the 2015 book pick\u00a0Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin<\/span> by Liesl Shurtliff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Various library sites had a wide variety of book-based programs leading up to author Liesl Shurtliff’s visit to Pasadena (more on that in a blog post later!). \u00a0One of these programs, hosted at the Central Library on November 14 was Rump’s Restaurant.<\/p>\n

\"DSCN1206At Rump’s Restaurant (usually called the Studio on 4th) Youth Services librarians and chefs-for-the-day Jennifer and Jane led our cooks through many literary dishes with the help of teen volunteer sous chefs. \u00a0You can see the menu below:
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\nBefore any creating\u00a0can take place, though, a cook needs to make sure he or she is properly attired.<\/p>\n

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Appetizer: Miller’s Bread with House Made\u00a0Butter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Making homemade butter is easy! \u00a0All you need is a jar with a secure lid, heavy cream, and some arm muscles! \u00a0Pour a bit of heavy cream into the jar, and then shake. It takes a while to turn into butter, so chefs must be patient. \u00a0Firs,t it will become whipped cream (it won’t taste delicious though — no sugar or vanilla in there!). \u00a0Keep shaking and then from the whipped cream stage it will turn into butter in a liquid (buttermilk). \u00a0You can feel the cream changing as you shake it, and if you hold it up to the light you can see the changes.<\/p>\n

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Once the butter is in the jar, we poured the buttermilk out, and then all the cooks enjoyed their homemade treat with some bread – made from the Miller’s flour of course.<\/p>\n

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Main Course:\u00a0Spaghetti Tower<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In\u00a0Rump,<\/span>\u00a0our hero\u00a0spends a lot of time with the Miller’s daughter in the tower of King Barf’s castle, spinning straw into gold. \u00a0For our second activity our cooks became architects, seeing which group could create the tallest tower that would support a “gold” nugget. \u00a0The only catch? \u00a0The tower could only be made out of spaghetti, using miniature marshmallows as connectors.<\/p>\n

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After our builders worked for about 20 minutes, it was time to measure which tower was tallest.<\/p>\n

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Then came the really hard part — seeing if the spaghetti tower could withstand the weight of a “gold” nugget.<\/p>\n

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Two towers managed to hold the nugget just fine! \u00a0To congratulate the builders, each member of the two teams received a copy of Liesl Shurtliff’s second book\u00a0<\/a>Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Dessert: Troll Sludge<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When Rump meets up with the trolls in his story, he finds that they enjoy eating sludge: “The sludge was greenish brown and it stank and\u00a0moved.<\/em> \u00a0All the trolls were slurping it down like it was honey, but that made it even less appetizing.” \u00a0So, we could hardly have a food fest featuring\u00a0Rump<\/span> and not make this delicacy!<\/p>\n

Our sludge was more of a parfait, with cooks arranging chocolate pudding, sandwich cookies, whipped topping, gummy worms, and brownies any way they desired.<\/p>\n

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I think it’s safe to say that everyone enjoyed this<\/em>\u00a0troll sludge\u00a0more than Rump enjoyed the real thing.<\/p>\n

All in all, our one-afternoon-only pop-up Rump’s Restaurant was a smashing success! \u00a0While it tickled our tastebuds, it \u00a0just whet our appetite for\u00a0the book, and everyone left excited about Pasadena’s visit from author Liesl Shurtliff that was still to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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