A Pigtown store and restaurant is working to unite people through food.On the outside, the Culinary Architecture Market and Kitchen looks like a typical storefront on Washington Boulevard.On the inside, customers will find a place that feels more like home with a table where everyone’s welcome to eat dishes made from a collection of unique ingredients hand-picked by chef-owner Sylva Lin.”I am a chef, so I really wanted to carry products that chefs get for people that love cooking,” Lin told 11 News. It was Lin’s childhood experiences growing up with a Canadian mother and Taiwanese father who both love food and cooking that first sparked her own love for cooking.”My dad grew up during World War II in Taiwan when it was occupied by the Japanese and our family were tenant farmers,” Lin told 11 News. “My family educated all of their six children. All of them went to college as subsistence like sharecroppers, and so it’s always something I’m really proud of. We had three-fourths of an acre of land, and my parents planted all of it with stuff you could eat, and so I was always surrounded by that environment.”Culinary Architecture is not just about helping people find great items to cook their own delicious food, it’s also about uniting people through food at community dinners, catering and cookbook clubs, where they teach people how to make food from all over the world.”Food is a uniter and it brings people together,” Lin told 11 News.Lin includes people from all walks of life by hiring refugees, immigrants and people who were formerly incarcerated.”I feel like investing in the community are things like that people who may have been disposed of before, or have not had a chance at the job market, and it’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to do something? You can do it here,'” Lin told 11 News.At Culinary Architecture, everyone is invited to sit around the table at a place that feels less like a store and more like a home.Lin and Culinary Architecture recently made the inaugural SPARK 10 list, which honors women who are sparking catalytic change through small-scale manufacturing across the country.
BALTIMORE —
A Pigtown store and restaurant is working to unite people through food.
On the outside, the Culinary Architecture Market and Kitchen looks like a typical storefront on Washington Boulevard.
On the inside, customers will find a place that feels more like home with a table where everyone’s welcome to eat dishes made from a collection of unique ingredients hand-picked by chef-owner Sylva Lin.
“I am a chef, so I really wanted to carry products that chefs get for people that love cooking,” Lin told 11 News.
It was Lin’s childhood experiences growing up with a Canadian mother and Taiwanese father who both love food and cooking that first sparked her own love for cooking.
“My dad grew up during World War II in Taiwan when it was occupied by the Japanese and our family were tenant farmers,” Lin told 11 News. “My family educated all of their six children. All of them went to college as subsistence like sharecroppers, and so it’s always something I’m really proud of. We had three-fourths of an acre of land, and my parents planted all of it with stuff you could eat, and so I was always surrounded by that environment.”
Culinary Architecture is not just about helping people find great items to cook their own delicious food, it’s also about uniting people through food at community dinners, catering and cookbook clubs, where they teach people how to make food from all over the world.
“Food is a uniter and it brings people together,” Lin told 11 News.
Lin includes people from all walks of life by hiring refugees, immigrants and people who were formerly incarcerated.
“I feel like investing in the community are things like that people who may have been disposed of before, or have not had a chance at the job market, and it’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to do something? You can do it here,'” Lin told 11 News.
At Culinary Architecture, everyone is invited to sit around the table at a place that feels less like a store and more like a home.
Lin and Culinary Architecture recently made the inaugural SPARK 10 list, which honors women who are sparking catalytic change through small-scale manufacturing across the country.