ods Comer Children’s Hospital and Stroger. The Healing Hurt People curriculum focuses on SELF: safety, emotion, loss and future, the four things disrupted when someone experiences acute or chronic trauma, Dick said. Project FIRE’s 26 participants learn what trauma is, its effects on the body and how to cope with it. The young artisans spend three hours working with glass and a final hour in group psychoeducation. Two groups of men meet two days a week for eight hours total; a women’s pilot group, begun this fall, meets once a week for four hours total, but is expected to expand to two days with more participants as the pandemic resolves. Project FIRE is also developing an entrepreneurship program in partnership with Harold Washington College and the City Colleges of Chicago. The intention is that participants who no longer need intensive case management or otherwise age out of the program can learn not just about artmaking but about small business development, possibly for something of their own. www.firebirdcommunityarts.org
asty Treat
Rollicking buckaroo pepper jam Michael Frustini decided after 25 years in retail management and a handful of years working with people who are elderly and developmentally disabled, that it was time to pursue some of his passions: horses, country dancing, cooking -and pepper jam. Hence, the awardwinning, all-natural, gluten-free and vegan gourmet Rollicking Buckaroo Pepper Jam and What’s New Buckaroo & Company LLC were launched in July 2017, with the help of Ricky Martel behind the scenes and Bob Frustini. The varieties include: Mild-It’s Sweet (10-oz), Medium-Sweet with a Kick (10.8-oz.), Hot-Hot N Sweet (10.8-oz) all $9, and coming back in 2021, Extra Hot-Extra Hot N Sweet. Glaze it over salmon, use it as a dipping sauce, try it on baked Brie or goat cheese or with crackers and cream cheese. The label is all about whimsy. The dancing cowboy is riding his horse with lasso in hand, having fun riding the wave. When Michael and Ricky aren’t selling the jam, you’ll find them volunteering, country two-stepping or line dancing somewhere in Chicagoland.
barcacaochocolat
Barcacaochocolat.com is an artisan chocolatier that takes its inspiration from British fashion, art and culture. Matthew Schreiner is former head pastry chef of the Tate Collection of Museums in the United Kingdom, a graduate of ESCF Ferrandi in Paris and a member of the French American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. He works directly with growers, producers and dairy farmers through his partner in Ecuador to ensure a sustainable chocolate that reduces the supply chain. Choose BARtali, named for the cycling legend Gino Bartali and made with signature 70% Peru/Ecuador dark chocolate and filled with Italian hazelnut praline, Spanish almond and 38% milk chocolate, $12; singleorigin Peruvian dark chocolate 3.5-oz. bars with Aleppo pepper, Almond, Maldon sea salt, freeze-dried strawberry with cracked black pepper, raspberry, mint, or passionfruit, $9; or 6-oz. dark chocolate-covered Valencia almond and hazelnuts from the Piedmont, $18. At barcacaochocolat.com or 112 Main St., Wheaton.
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