I was very excited for the lock down in the beginning. I was okay with staying in for two weeks or even until the end of my sophomore year, school was draining that year. What I didn’t know and wasn’t expecting to say inside for so long. Not only that but how my life would change over the lockdown. You see, I’m an extrovert and I basically need people to talk to. I would try to...
Doha Ibrahim served as a student representative to Philadelphia Board of Education last school year. When the quarantine began in March, students were displaced from their normal routines, including Doha Ibrahim, then a Philadelphia Student Representative. In this role, she spoke on behalf of students in the Philadelphia School District, relaying their concerns and opinions to the Philadelphia Board of Education. “When we are on the board —and I am not sugarcoating it— I felt like...
We are happy to report that we are now working in our commercial kitchen again! Our crew is back to cooking up an array of healthy and delicious recipes, but now we are doing this with extra safety measures to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. Our rules require: frequent hand washing, no more than 8 crew members in the kitchen at a time and that everyone wears a face mask. That is not the only...
I have always been a picky eater. So picky that I refuse to eat cheese on anything besides a sandwich, and that's only sometimes. Don’t even get me started on vegetables, I refused to eat anything green except maybe lettuce or broccoli. Brussels sprouts were one of the many green foods I refused to eat, but since working with the crew in the kitchen and gaining exposure to many different recipes, my view on Brussels...
Expanding our reach of Rebels Crumble’s distribution is always exciting for everyone at Rebel, but for one of our high school crew members to do so on his own is even more exciting for us. We would like to congratulate our team member, Zykir Taylor, for successfully getting Rebel Crumbles onto his school’s breakfast menu! Zykir is a sophomore at Philadelphia Electrical and Technical Charter School. As a charter school it falls outside of the School...
I love to cook, especially soups and stews. My first memories of cooking are my great grandmother and I cooking breakfast and making sweets like cakes or cookies. So I have been cooking since I was a little girl. Now, I'm not saying I'm the best at it. My grandmother could tell you countless stories of me burning rice or cookies. I am getting better with time though, and I have decided that this break...
A short time after the first trial of Banana Whips, we took on the task of creating a Cookie Dough that would make a perfect pair. Whether mixed into desserts or sprinkled on top, cookie dough is a mouth-watering addition for many of us. It was clear, adding cookie dough would make the Whips even tastier. We set out to develop a recipe that is packed with nutrition and found that we could sub flour and...
