“Scrapple Road” is a new independently produced 1-hour film about scrapple that debuted online last month. Filmmaker Kurt Kolaja will be hosting a screening at the Culinary Literacy Center at Parkway Central Library on Wednesday, December 7, from 6:00-8:00. It will include a tasting from local Chef Adam Diltz of Elwood Restaurant, who features in the film.

There is a certain lore that accompanies scrapple- a dish ingrained in East Coast heritage and culture. Learn about the people and small businesses who know it best at this exclusive screening of the documentary Scrapple Road. Filmmaker Kurt Kolaja will be in the driver’s seat to share the film while award-winning local chef (and scrapple enthusiast) Adam Diltz will be preparing a dish ingrained in Pennsylvania Dutch heritage and culture.

About the presenters:

Kurt Kolaja is a documentary filmmaker. He began his career by shooting 16mm news film about the same time that NBC boasted of being, The Full Color Network. Kurt’s documentary work explores the Mid-Atlantic region and the people who live there. “Scrapple Road”, his most recent project, can be found at www.scrappleroad.com. He and his wife Elise live in a restored barn near Chestertown, Maryland.

Chef Adam Diltz grew up eating sauerkraut, scrapple, venison, shoofly pie and molasses cookies, hunting and fishing, and pulling turnips from his great grandfather’s farm. He had an interest in wild game cookbooks and the regional American recipes in James Beard’s American Cookery. Adam worked for three James Beard Award winning chefs (Barbara Lynch at No. 9 Park in Boston, Jean Joho at Everest in Chicago, and Joseph Lenn at Blackberry Farm in Tennessee). In 2010, Adam moved to Philadelphia to work as a sous chef at the Yardley Inn before becoming head chef of Farmicia and then executive chef at Johnny Brenda’s in Fishtown. Throughout the years, Adam’s curiosity about the cuisine rooted in the country culture of his childhood leads him to explore Pennsylvania culinary history. His restaurant, Elwood, takes a slice of local culinary history and combines it with a celebration of a chef’s personal history rooted in the resilience of country living.

If you love scrapple (“It’s an East Coast thing!”), you won’t want to miss it!

Purchase tickets in advance here.

Or you can rent the film on Vimeo.

Scrapple Road from Kurt Kolaja on Vimeo.

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