Events at Omnivore Books on Food

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Results of our Saturday July 10 • Stone Fruit Food Contest! • 4-5 p.m.

Our winners were S.F. Baking Institute students Aleta Cruz and Lilly Quintana, for their delicious gallettes! They used a recipe from Michel Suas' Advanced Bread and Pastry: A Professional Approach. The recipe is as follows.

Pâte à Foncer yields about 6-7 5inch galettes

Ingredients
395g Pastry Flour
296g Butter
  79g Milk
  16g Egg Yolks
    8g Salt
    6g Sugar

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 425ºF along with a sheet pan or pizza stone (385ºF for convection oven).
2. Allow butter, milk, and egg yolks to come up to room temperature. Butter should be almost mayonnaise consistency.
3. Soften the butter and mix with the paddle attachment.
4. Add the salt, sugar, yolks, and milk, and then add the flour. Mix until just incorporated; dough should look a little bit shaggy.
5. Refridgerate dough for 1 to 4 hours.
6. Divide dough into 7 pieces. Roll dough out to about an 1/8 of an inch thick about 6-7 inch rounds. Fill with either sweet or savory filling. Egg wash crust.
7. Bake until golden about 25-35 minutes.


 
 
 

Thursday July 29 • Tequila Tasting with Joanne Weir • 6-7 p.m. • $5

The fabulous host of PBS's Joanne Weir's Cooking Class and author of Tequila, Joanne Weir, will show us how to make Mexican 75's, and we'll taste a variety of artisanal tequilas from Mexico (as well as Joanne's famous handpies). $5 per person.

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Sunday August 8 • Nan Chase • Eat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, and Flowers for Your Landscape • 3-4 p.m. • Free

Eat Your Yard! proves that you can have your beautiful landscape and eat it too! Author Nan K. Chase gives firsthand information and advice for growing 35 plants that offer the best landscape features and culinary use. Recipes ranging from savory cherry sauce to pickled grape leaves to mint wine to grilled yucca demonstrate the infinite culinary possibilities your yard can offer.

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Saturday August 14 • Tomato Cooking Contest! • 4-5 p.m.

Cook up a fabulous dish using August's fabulous tomato bounty, making it as inventive and delicious as you can, and you'll walk home with cash in your pocket! Please cut your dish into many pieces so as many judges as possible can sample. Free to enter a dish; $5 for anyone who wants to taste and judge; winner splits the door money. As always, the more, the merrier!

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Thursday August 19 • Ed Behr • The Art of Eating • 6-7 p.m. • Free

Please join us for this special event! Ed Behr, founder, editor and publisher of the wonderful food magazine The Art of Eating, will speak about his work. The magazine has been in print since 1986, and Behr is also the author of a book of the same title.

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Friday August 20 • Jane Ziegelman • 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement • 6-7 p.m. • Free

Ziegelman puts a historical spin to the notion that you are what you eat by looking at 5 immigrant families from what she calls the "elemental perspective of the foods they ate." They are German, Italian, Irish, and Jewish (both Orthodox and Reform) from Russia and Germany--they are new Americans, and each family, sometime between 1863 and 1935, lived on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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Saturday August 21 • Dianne Jacob • Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir and More • 3-4 p.m. • Free

 

The newest edition of Will Write for Food focuses on food blogging and photography, social media, self-publishing and freelance writing. Sean Timberlake of Hedonia interviews Dianne on food blogging trends, including how a blog can open doors to writing books, feature articles, and paid posts for websites.

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Monday October 4 • René Redzepi in Conversation with Daniel Patterson • Noma: Place and Time in Nordic Cuisine • 7:00 p.m.

We have set up the first U.S. event with Chef René Redzepi, to celebrate his upcoming cookbook, Noma: Place and Time in Nordic Cuisine (Phaidon). Redzepi's Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recently named the best in the world. The event is free to anyone who purchases a copy of the book in advance from Omnivore ($50), or $15 without a book. René will sign books purchased from Omnivore at the event, but if you can't make it but would like to buy a book and have it signed, we'll be happy to arrange that, too. Because of heightened interest in Chef Redzepi, he will be giving a presentation off-site from my shop, at the charming Delancey Street Theater. MapFrank Bruni Article

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