Thursday July 9th • Fried Chicken Taste-Off 6:00-7:00 p.m. • Free to entrants; $5 fee for eaters-only (winner scores the pot!)
If you think your fried chicken is the best, not-to-be-beat, most scrumptious in the universe, this is your chance to prove it. Bring your chicken at 6 p.m., and we'll line up all the entries and let everyone judge. If you love to eat fried chicken and think you know a winner when you taste it, come on by and eat some, then decide whose is best. The more entries and eaters, the merrier - I'll provide plates, napkins, and wine. (Chicken pictured is from Willie Mae's Scotch House New Orleans, Louisiana)
Saturday July 11th • Giulia Melucci & Emily Franklin 3-4 p.m. • Free
The authors Giulia Melucci, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti and Emily Franklin, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, and 102 Recipes, discuss their books about food, love, kids, men, and cooking.
Saturday July 18th • Lauren Hoover • 3-4 p.m. • Free
No Wheat, No Dairy, No Problem. Ms. Lauren Hoover has answers to food allergy queries and has created wonderful recipes without dairy or wheat.
Thursday July 23 • Polly Adema • 5:30-7:30 p.m. • Free
Polly Adema will discuss her book, Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape. According to Pauline Adema, you smell Gilroy, California, before you see it. In Garlic Capital of the World, the folklorist and culinary anthropologist examines the role of food and festivals in creating a place brand or marketable identity. The author scrutinizes how Gilroy, California, successfully transformed a negative association with the pungent bulb into a highly successful tourism and marketing campaign-
Saturday July 25th • Daphne Miller • 3-4 p.m. • Free
The Jungle Effect. Family physician Daphne Miller had seen countless cases of chronic illness and weight gain, but it wasn't until she saw a patient recently returned from Brazil that a light bulb went off in her head: the patient had noticed marked improvement after just a few weeks in her father's native village. Intrigued, Miller did some research and found a number of "cold spots" around the world, areas where chronic diseases like diabetes, depression and heart disease are disproportionately low. She then embarked on a world tour to find out why. -
Saturday August 1 • Tara Duggan • 3-4 p.m. • Free
The Working Cook: Fast and Fresh Meals for Busy People. Tara Duggan, winner of the James Beard Foundation Award and a regular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle’s award-winning food section, has created a practical cookbook with more than 100 healthy, delicious recipes that take just 20–40 minutes to prepare. 
Sunday August 9 • Novella Carpenter • 3-4 p.m. • Free
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Novella Carpenter, freelance journalist and urban farmer, has written an hilarious and inspiring memoir of a woman who turns a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. Join us for her captivating descriptions of raising bees, chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigs and delivering salad greens to the Black Panther's youth literacy program. Visit her blog
Sunday August 16 • Corinne Trang • 3-4 p.m. • Free
Noodles Every Day: Delicious Asian Recipes from Ramen to Rice Sticks. Noodle dishes are a beloved staple throughout Asia and are eaten at all hours of the day and night. Asian cuisine expert Corinne Trang presents more than 70 recipes that make it easy to discover such simple pleasures as the Vietnamese rice noodle soup known as Pho mee krob (a sweet and crispy fried rice vermicelli) from Thailand and Japanese Soba.
Thursday Aug 27 • Jean Johnson •5:30-7:30 p.m. • Free
Cooking Beyond Measure. Food historian Jean Johnson has written a cookbook that flies in the face of received culinary wisdom. Gone are measurements, gone is the tight-laced tone and prescriptive lists of ingredients. Here is a book from which one can actually learn how to cook. Illustrated with lush photos and witty advice, the recipes are a pleasure to read, in simple instructive prose.
Events at Omnivore Books on Food
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