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![]() Mon. April 2 • Ali Rosen • Bring It! Tried & True Recipes for Potluck and Casual Entertaining • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEThe word "potluck" may inspire memories of church dinners and mystery covered dishes. But today's potlucks are essentially outsourced dinner parties, which make gathering around a shared table a cinch. Inside Bring It!, you will find dozens of impressive-looking recipes that come together easily, and are perfect for carrying to any occasion. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK
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![]() Tues. April 3 • Jessica Battilana • Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need • 6:30-8:00 p.m. FREEJoin us for a party to celebrate the release of local cookbook author Jessica Battilana's first solo cookbook! After nearly two decades in the kitchen and writing about food, this is the way Battilana really cooks at home. These are her best recipes, the ones she relies on the most--for a quick weeknight supper, a special dinner party, when a friend drops by for a drink and a snack, for the chocolate cake that never fails. The knowledge, freedom, and flexibility that comes from cooking these recipes is all you really need in the kitchen. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Wed. April 4 • Jamie DeMent • The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEJamie DeMent opens a bright kitchen window onto the newest kind of North Carolina farming life. On fifty-five acres of beautiful Piedmont farmland in Hillsborough, North Carolina, DeMent and her family raise sustainably nurtured and sought-after heirloom varieties of produce and livestock. Every day on Coon Rock Farm, DeMent cooks robust, flavorful, satisfying meals for family, crew, and farm interns—and now you are invited to share the bounty. The Farmhouse Chef offers 150 recipes for every occasion, from down home to downright elegant, inspired by the farm's yield through the four seasons. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Thurs. April 5 • Von Diaz • Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEWhen her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded plantains, roast pork, and malta for grits, fried chicken, and sweet tea. Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and Collards is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Latina in the Deep South. Inspired by her grandmother’s 1962 copy of Cocina Criolla--the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy of Cooking--Coconuts and Collards celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them with Diaz’s own family history and a contemporary Southern flair. Diaz discovers the connections between the food she grew up eating in Atlanta and the African and indigenous influences in so many Puerto Rican dishes. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Mon. April 16 • Andrew Friedman • Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE.Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports readers back in time to witness the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and '80s. Taking a rare, coast-to-coast perspective, Andrew Friedman goes inside Chez Panisse and other Bay Area restaurants to show how the politically charged backdrop of Berkeley helped draw new talent to the profession; into the historically underrated community of Los Angeles chefs, including a young Wolfgang Puck and future stars such as Susan Feniger, Mary Sue Milliken, and Nancy Silverton; and into the clash of cultures between established French chefs in New York City and the American game changers behind The Quilted Giraffe, The River Cafe, and other East Coast establishments.Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Wed. April 18 • Jacques Pepin and his granddaughter, Shorey. A Grandfather's Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE.Ever since she was very young, his granddaughter, Shorey, has loved “helping” him in the kitchen. Now that she is twelve, Jacques gives his charismatic pupil a short course on preparing “food that is plain, but elegant, and more than anything, fun.” In the process, he proves himself as inspiring to her as he is to the country’s greatest chefs. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK ![]() |
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![]() Thurs. April 19 • Edward Lee • Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEAmerican food is the story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push-pull come exciting new dishes and flavors. A natural-born storyteller, Lee decided to hit the road and spent two years uncovering fascinating narratives from every corner of the country. There’s a Cambodian couple in Massachusetts, and their efforts to re-create the flavors of their lost country. A Uyghur café in Brighton Beach serves a noodle soup that seems so familiar and yet so exotic - one unexpected ingredient opens a window onto a unique culture. A beignet from Café du Monde in New Orleans inspires a narrative that tunnels through time, back to the first Creole cooks, then forward to a Korean rice-flour hoedduck and a beignet dusted with matcha. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK ![]() |
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![]() Sat. April 21 • Nigella Lawson • At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREENigella Lawson is every home cook's goddess, and in this new book she returns to celebrating the food she loves to cook for friends and family every day. As Nigella writes, "The food in this book, that comes from my kitchen, is eaten at my table, and will be eaten at yours, is the food I have always loved cooking. It doesn't require technique, dexterity or expertise, none of which I lay claim to. Life is complicated; cooking doesn't have to be." And yes, Anglophiles, there's a recipe for sticky toffee pudding in here. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Sun. April 22 • Sonja & Alex Overhiser • A Couple Cooks - Pretty Simple Cooking: 100 Delicious Vegetarian Recipes to Make You Fall in Love with Real Food • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEA Couple Cooks - Pretty Simple Cooking is an irresistible combination of spirited writing, nourishing recipes with a Mediterranean flair, and vibrant photography. Dubbed a "vegetarian cookbook for non-vegetarians", it's a beautiful book that's food for thought, at the same time providing real food recipes for eating around the table. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Wed. April 25 • Adam Federman • Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEFor more than thirty years, Patience Gray―author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed―lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. In Fasting and Feasting, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable life story of Ms. Gray, from her privileged and intellectual upbringing in England, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, and author, and describing her travels and culinary adventures in later years. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Thurs. April 26 • Somer Sivrioglu • Anatolia: Adventures in Turkish Cooking • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEAnatolia is a beautifully illustrated exploration of classic Turkish cuisine and culture, adapted for modern life. Turkish-born chef Somer Sivrioglu re-imagines the traditions of Turkish cooking, presenting recipes ranging from the grand banquets of the Ottoman empire to the spicy snacks of Istanbul's street stalls. In doing so they explain their take on the classics and reveal the surrounding rituals, myths, jokes and folk wisdom of both the old and new Turkey. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Sat. April 28 • Nancy Hachisu Singleton • Japan: The Cookbook • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEJapan: The Cookbook has more than 400 sumptuous recipes by acclaimed food writer Nancy Singleton Hachisu (author of Japanese Farm Food and Preserving the Japanese Way). The iconic and regional traditions of Japan are organized by course and contain insightful notes alongside the recipes. The dishes - soups, noodles, rices, pickles, one-pots, sweets, and vegetables - are simple and elegant. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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![]() Sun. April 29 • Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff • Cooking Together: A Vegetarian Co-op Cookbook • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEIn addition to recipes from her native India, Sacharoff discusses the basics of cooking, planning well-balanced vegetarian meals and the importance of cooking and eating together with friends and family. Shanta is an original member of Other Avenues Food Co-op, a worker-owned food co-op started in 1974 in the Outer Sunset. Add this event to your calendar. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED BOOK |
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