Just a middle-aged old man baking cookies
2 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
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Monday 20th December 2021
Report written by Sam Lefevre (he/him)
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That's what the kids thought of me. There's a first time for everything, but to be called a middle-aged by 7-9 year olds isn't what I hoped to hear at the age of nearly 31....
Gemma and I met inside Mercato Metropolitano and introduce ourselves to Beth, who was running the show today as the main lady hosting the baking class pulled out. Therefore, Beth made to make a quick batch of Nika's gingerbread people dough before all the kids came.
The kids slowly came into today unlike the weekend when they were all prompted. Today, at first, it looked like 2 were going to attend and then 10 showed up.
After giving all a piece of gingerbread dough, the kids flattened out the dough with their palms to maximize on the amount of cookies they could cut. Each one had their own shape and did plenty of them, but some did share the shapes.
The cookies baked in the oven for 10 minutes before a five minute cool down. Afterwards, the kids decorated the cookies to their hearts delight.
They had pizza for lunch, which some loved and others didn't (who doesn't like pizzas...), but eventually they all had a slice at least...even if some just ate the crust...
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Mercato Metropolitano is the first sustainable community market with an Italian soul
Mercato Metropolitano, centrally located in London's south east Elephant & Castle, is the city’s first sustainable community market focused on revitalizing neighbourhoods and protecting the environment. The market has incubated more than 48 food and beverage businesses, a delicatessen with sustainably sourced products from local farmers and artisans, a unique cinema experience, a communal kitchen and several circular economy concepts including a Bavarian micro-brewery, a hydroponics farm, a mushroom garden from spent coffee grounds and a vertical garden in a double decker bus to name a few. MM, launched in 2016, attracts up to 60,000 people a week to a part of the city that previously had little footfall. It aims to teach urban dwellers that they can support their local and rural communities while at the same time protecting the environment by focusing on what they eat and how they eat.
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