The Broad Street Market
Harrisburg’s Broad Street Market soon will be ready for its close-up.
On Friday, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office will host a showing of its new Apple TV series “Stuffed with Steve Ford,” which features the market and its vendors. The free event will take place in the market courtyard at 8 p.m., during 3rd in the Burg.
“We are so excited to finally be bringing this special program to the public,” said Carrie Fischer Lepore, deputy secretary for marketing, tourism and film.
Within the four episodes of the show, eight businesses from the commonwealth are spotlighted. HGTV’s Steve Ford hosts the show, talking with business owners, touring their facilities and tasting their products.
Featured businesses include:
- Talking Breads (Mechanicsburg)
- Broad Street Market (Harrisburg)
- Urban Village Brewing (Philadelphia)
- Isgro’s Bakery (Philadelphia)
- Hollabaugh Brothers (Biglerville)
- Ploughman Taproom (Gettysburg)
- Thirsty Farmer (Biglerville)
- Round Barn & Market (Biglerville)
“The Broad Street market speaks to so much of what makes PA an interesting destination,” Fischer Lepore said. “It has great history, many different cultures are represented and it helps tell the story of Pa. through taste and smell.”
In the show, co-owner Timishia Goodson of Raising the Bar bakery, a market vendor, shows Ford around both the brick and stone market buildings. In the episode, they stop to talk to owners and employees of Fisher’s Deli and Bakery and Lil’s Pretzels, before tasting treats from Raising the Bar.
“It was a good chance to show the history of the market,” Goodson said. “It was a fun experience.”
For the screening event on Friday, the market will stay open late, until 9:15 p.m. Raising the Bar plans to make some special desserts for the showing, Goodson said. The Midtown Cinema is also a partner in the event.
Pittsburgh-native Ford, of HGTV’s “Restored by the Fords” and “Home Again with the Fords,” will attend Friday’s event at the market.
According to Fischer Lepore, the series can be found on the new “Pennsylvania TV” Apple TV channel, which will include other shows featuring businesses and entrepreneurs around the state. The channel launches Aug. 19.
“Stuffed with Steve Ford” goes hand-in-hand with the tourism office’s “Culinary Trails” that launched last fall, Fischer Lepore explained. All of the businesses shown in the episodes are stops on their “Baked: A Bread Trail” and “Picked: An Apple Trail.” The Broad Street market is featured in an episode within the bread trail.
Ultimately, Fischer Lepore hopes the show encourages people to visit the state’s many small businesses.
“Our greatest hope is to help drive traffic to all of the small businesses along our many trails in PA,” she said.
For more information on Pennsylvania’s Culinary Trails, visit their website.
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