A taste of tradition: 2021 Culinary Week

by Kristen Triplett on August 27, 2021 2.6K views

KRISTEN TRIPLETT – STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Patrons sample the offerings at the Scandinavian Festival at CHQ Pop-up Tuesday in Miller Park, marking the beginning of Chautauqua Institution’s Culinary Week 2021. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Patrons sample the offerings at the Scandinavian Festival at CHQ Pop-up Tuesday in Miller Park, marking the beginning of Chautauqua Institution’s Culinary Week 2021. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Patrons sample the offerings at the Scandinavian Festival at CHQ Pop-up Tuesday in Miller Park, marking the beginning of Chautauqua Institution’s Culinary Week 2021. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Patrons sample the offerings at the Scandinavian Festival at CHQ Pop-up Tuesday in Miller Park, marking the beginning of Chautauqua Institution’s Culinary Week 2021. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Patrons sample the offerings at the Scandinavian Festival at CHQ Pop-up Tuesday in Miller Park, marking the beginning of Chautauqua Institution’s Culinary Week 2021. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Thule Adult Swedish Folk Dance Team dances with music played by Svenska Spelman under the Culinary Week tent Tuesday in Miller Park. The Scandinavian Festival, usually held annually in nearby Jamestown but canceled for the past two years, was held as a one-day pop-up at Chautauqua both as a fundraiser for festival organizers and to showcase the cultural offerings of the Institution’s home region. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Italian Heritage Dancers perform along the brick walk in Miller Park. The Italian Festival — known in Italian as Festa di San Giacomo — was the second local festival that hasn’t operated in two years to be showcased as part of Chautauqua Institution’s Culinary Week 2022. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR
Italian sausages are charred on the grill during festival. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR
Sicily Stainbrook, 4, dances with her mother Kristina Stainbrook as her grandmother Grace Streed, left, looks on during the St. James Italian Festival at CHQ Pop-up Wednesday. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR

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The author Kristen Triplett

This is Kristen Triplett’s first season with the Daily where she serves as a photographer. She discovered her love for photography in college and will be graduating from Ball State University with a degree in photojournalism at the end of this summer. Her passions are portrait photography and portraying stories through her work. When not working, Kristen enjoys frequenting local coffee shops, playing guitar and spending time by the riverfront in her hometown of New Albany, Indiana.