Book & Dinner Club—Taste: My Life Through Food

We were so excited to be able to sneak in our fifth Book & Dinner Club this spring. We think everyone else was too because we sold out within 24 hours! It was such a joy to spend the past six Tuesday nights with 10 amazing women to eat delicious food made from recipes either

Cheers to Our 2nd Year!

Although the unofficial Philo Collective anniversary hails back to May 2020, our operations became official in January 2021. So, at the close of 2022, we celebrate a fantastic end to our second full year of yoga, bakery & events! To celebrate, let’s look at highlights in each of our operational categories from the past year:

Book & Dinner Club – Delicious!

We had another lovely farmers’ market season this year, but we couldn’t even wait for it to be over before starting our fourth book & dinner club this fall. With 10 women signed up for food & fellowship on Tuesday nights, we had our largest book club yet; spending six wonderful weeks reading & eating

2022 Farmers’ Market

Season #2 of Philo Collective at the Kankakee Farmers’ Market is in the books. We are exhausted, but so thankful for a second great season of sharing our business with the local community. To celebrate, here are some of the things we are thankful for from the past six months at the 2022 market: 1.

Biscotti — Our favorite twice-baked cookie

We are already a month into our second year at the local farmers’ market and we have loved sharing more of “European-inspired” baked goods with the community. One of the main goals of Philo Collective is to create space for people to learn and grow together and it’s been very fun to share our baking

Book Club — Under the Tuscan Sun

Harkening back to the pre-Fixer Upper year of 1996, we chose Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes as our next book club installment. This time, however, we more aptly named the event series “Book & Dinner Club,” given that an entrée and dessert constituted more than just conversation refreshments. Before it was popular (and

Book Club – To Shake the Sleeping Self

After the fabulous success of our first book club experience (we read and ate our way through The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City, by David Lebovitz), we were thrilled to kick off our second club in January. For seven weeks we traveled through To

Yoga — Try Something New!

How are your resolutions coming along? If you are like probably 90% of humans, you may have already lost a bit of steam on your January goals. That is very normal and very ok. I can’t speak for the entire world, but in American society, we tend to put a lot of pressure on a

Book Club — The Sweet Life in Paris

What a year! 2021 was so full of new experiences for Philo Collective, one of which was the launch of book club this fall. For seven weeks a group of 10 women met to discuss what I consider to be one of the best books about life in Paris, The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious

Summer/Fall Farmers’ Market

Well, the Kankakee Farmers’ Market summer/fall season has concluded. We commented multiple times this week how quickly the past six months have passed and how wonderful of an experience it has been! To celebrate a half year of great memories, here were some of our favorite moments from the 2021 market: 1. Meeting our community.