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	Thurs. May 23 • Lori Eanes • Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local from 35 Urban Farmers • 6-7 p.m. FREE Backyard Roots is a unique project by California-based photographer Lori Eanes that evocatively and intimately explores the lives of 35 urban farmers in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. In these stories and photos, you'll find people like Laura Allen, the Oakland-based cofounder of Greywater Action, a policy and education nonprofit that promotes the use of greywater systems. Or meet Jonathan Chen, a young cancer survivor who now manages the Danny Woo Community Gardens in south Seattle, where a group of Southeast Asian immigrants farm in a vibrant mix of cultures. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Sat. June 1 • Rohan Anderson • Whole Larder Love: Grow, Gather, Hunt• 3-4 p.m. FREE Author and ultimate DIY-er Rohan Anderson is a family man and a modern-day hunter-gatherer living just outside the historical town of Ballarat, an 1800s gold rush town in Australia. Within this rural landscape Anderson has capitalized on the opportunities for many a culinary adventure. Primarily concerned with how to live off of the land and provide himself and his family with fresh, local food, Anderson has become a passionate hunter, fisher, forager, gardener, pickler, and sometimes barterer. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Mon. June 3 • Andrea Slonecker • Pretzel Making at Home • 6-7 p.m. FREE DEMO Here's a new twist on an old favorite: pretzels warm from the oven. DIY bakers can make their own crunchy, chewy, savory, or sweet artisan pretzels with this collection of 50 recipes that imagines every way to shape, fill, and top them. Here are the traditional versions as well as novel creations such as Philly cheesesteak pretzel pockets and fried pretzel with cinnamon sugar. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Weds. June 5 • Laura Smith Borrman • Wine Country Chef's Table: Extraordinary Recipes from Napa and Sonoma. With Nick Demarest of Harvest Moon Cafe (Sonoma) and Ari Rosen of Scopa (Healdsburg)• 6-7 p.m. FREE Centered on the world’s premier winemaking region and renowned culinary destination, Wine Country Chef’s Table offers an intimate look at a region that thousands of travelers often just “taste.” It is a regional cookbook and travelogue, offering gems of recipes along with restaurant, winery, and farm stories to both locals and visitors alike. The book features great chefs, farmers, and food artisans from the distinct parts of the California wine country—spanning both the Napa and Sonoma valleys. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Thurs. June 6 • Jennie Schacht • I Scream Sandwich: Inspired Recipes for the Ultimate Frozen Treat. • 6-7 p.m. FREE with ice cream sandwiches from BiRite Creamery! In I Scream Sandwich!, cookbook author Jennie Schacht redefines this hugely popular sweet treat and shows us how it can easily be the star of a dinner party, child’s birthday bash, family picnic, or just a lazy summer afternoon. The book includes a variety of ice cream sandwich recipes, from the classic (chocolate cookie bars with vanilla ice cream), to the exotic (kaffir lime and lemongrass sorbet on five-spice cookies). Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Mon. June 10 • Jo Robinson • Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimal Health. • 6-7 p.m. FREE Eating on the Wild Side reveals the nutritional history of our fruits and vegetables. Starting with the wild plants that were central to our original diet, investigative journalist Jo Robinson describes how 400 generations of farmers have unwittingly squandered a host of essential fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. In an engaging blend of science and story, Robinson describes how and when we transformed the food in the produce aisles. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Tues. June 11 • Marjorie Williams • Markets of Paris: Food, Antiques, Crafts, Books and More. • 6-7 p.m. FREE This updated edition focuses on the most interesting vendors and most unique and enticing offerings to be found at each locale, including prepared food that can be eaten on the spot. In keeping with growing interest in knowing where food comes from, the authors include profiles and photos of farmers and other artisanal suppliers behind the best food stalls. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Mon. June 13 • Ethel Brennan & Sara Remington • Paris to Provence: Childhood Memories of Food & France. • 6-7 p.m. FREE “This beautiful memoir will beguile everyone who loves France and should be essential reading for anyone going there for the first time...Forget three-star dining and luxury travel; this is the France that I love and remember with pleasure. The recipes are simple and soul satisfying—from café fare and home cooking to street food and a village feast. I was enchanted with the evocative photos and charmed by every memory.” - Alice Medrich. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Tues. June 18 • William Sitwell. The History of Food in 100 Recipes. • 6-7 p.m. FREE In this book William Sitwell, culinary expert on BBC2's 'A Question of Taste' and editor of Waitrose Kitchen magazine, takes us on a colorful journey as he explores the fascinating history of cooking, from ancient Egyptian bread to modernist cuisine. This book is a celebration of the great dishes, techniques and above all brilliant cooks who have, over the centuries, created the culinary landscape we now enjoy. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Thurs. June 20 • Marie Simmons • A Taste of Honey: The Definitive Guide to Tasting and Cooking with 40 Varietals • 6-7 p.m. FREE "I’m a honey collector, too, but unlike Marie, I tend to stick to a drizzle of honey over cheese, toast, or hot cereal and the occasional dessert. There are so many more ideas here for using honey, not only the recipes but the more informal suggestions that follow each chapter—my favorites." - Deborah Madison. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Fri. June 21 • Susan Heeger & Susie Norris • Hand-Crafted Candy Bars. • 6-7 p.m. FREE Candy bar devotees Susie Norris and Susan Heeger show how to reinvent candy bars as they should be—thick and layered with nougat, crisp with toffee, and coated with fine chocolate. Familiar candy-store bars and other nostalgic favorites are re-created using the freshest ingredients, right down to the peanut-laden caramel and chocolate-drenched cookie crunch. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Wed. June 26• Edward Lee • Smoke and Pickles: Recipes & Stories from a New Southern Kitchen.• 6-7 p.m. FREE Raised in Brooklyn by a family of Korean immigrants, chef Edward Lee eventually settled down in his adopted hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where he owns the acclaimed restaurant 610 Magnolia. A multiple James Beard Award nominee for his unique patchwork cuisine, Lee creates recipes--filled with pickling, fermenting, frying, curing, and smoking--that reflect the overlapping flavors and techniques that led this Korean-American boy to feel right at home in the South. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!
	Thurs. June 27 • Joann Chang • Flour, Too: Indispensable Recipes for the Cafe's Most Loved Sweets and Savories. • 6-7 p.m. FREE, WITH SAMPLES FROM THE BAKERY! The ideal companion to Flour—Joanne Chang's beloved first cookbook—Flour, too includes the most-requested savory fare to have made her four cafés Boston's favorite stops for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Here are 100 gratifying recipes for easy at-home eating and entertaining from brunch treats to soups, pizzas, pasta, and, of course, Flour's famous cakes, tarts, and other sweet goodies. Add this event to your calendar. Can't make it in person but want a signed book? Buy it here, and we'll ship it to you!