Events at Omnivore Books on FoodIf you would like a signed copy of a book from one of our events, but are unable to attend,just call the shop at 415-282-4712, we’ll be happy to take care of it for you. To see photos from some of our past author events, click here! |
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Fri. Oct. 28 • Brad Thomas Parsons • Amaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEThe European tradition of making bittersweet liqueurs--called amari in Italian--has been around for centuries. But it is only recently that these herbaceous digestifs have moved from the dusty back bar to center stage in the United States, and become a key ingredient on cocktail lists in the country’s best bars and restaurants. Parsons is the author of the acclaimed book Bitters. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sun. Oct. 30 • Ashley Christensen • Poole's: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEAshley Christensen is the new face of Southern cooking, and her debut cookbook, Poole’s, honors the traditions of this celebrated cuisine, while introducing a new vernacular—elevated simple side dishes spiked with complex vinaigrettes, meatless mains showcasing vibrant vegetables, and intensified flavors through a cadre of back-pocket recipes that will become indispensable in your kitchen. Her restaurant is in Raleigh, North Carolina. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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OFF-SITE EVENT! Tues. Nov. 1 • Fuchsia Dunlop. • Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China. Dinner with the author at Camino Restaurant • 6 p.m.-9 p.m. TICKETS & DINNER DESCRIPTION HERE!The lower Yangtze region, or Jiangnan, with its modern capital Shanghai, has been known since ancient times as a “land of fish and rice.” For centuries, local cooks have harvested the bounty of its lakes, rivers, fields, and mountains to create a cuisine renowned for its delicacy and beauty. In Land of Fish and Rice, Fuchsia Dunlop draws on years of study and exploration to present the recipes, techniques, and ingredients of the Jiangnan kitchen. BUY THE BOOK
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Wed. Nov. 2 • Lisa Q. Fetterman • Sous Vide at Home: The Modern Technique for Perfectly Cooked Meals • Book Launch Party catered by Nomiku! • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREESous vide has been a popular cooking technique in restaurants for years, offering tender and succulent dishes cooked to perfection. Now, from the creator of Nomiku--the first affordable sous vide machine--comes this easy-to-follow cookbook that clearly illustrates how to harness the power of sous vide technology to achieve restaurant-quality dishes in the comfort of your own kitchen. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Thurs. Nov. 3 • George Geary • L.A.'s Legendary Restaurants: Celebrating the Famous Places Where Hollywood Ate, Drank, and Played • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEFrom such classics as Musso & Frank and The Brown Derby in the 1920s to the see-and-be-seen crowds at Chasen’s, Romanoffs, and Ciro’s in the mid-20th century to the dawn of California cuisine at Ma Maison and Spago Sunset in the 1970s and ’80s, L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants celebrates the famous locations where Hollywood ate, drank, and played. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sat. Nov. 5 • Molly Yeh in conversation with Phyllis Grant • Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from an Unlikely Life on a Farm • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEIn 2013, food blogger and classical musician Molly Yeh left Brooklyn to live on a farm on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, where her fiancé was a fifth-generation Norwegian-American sugar beet farmer. Like her award-winning blog My Name is Yeh, Molly on the Range chronicles her life through photos, more than 100 new recipes, and hilarious stories from life in the city and on the farm. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sun. Nov. 6 • Simone Miller & Diane Sanfilippo • Paleo Soups and Stews and Practical Paleo • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEPaleo Soups & Stews features more than 105 nourishing recipes, from foundation broths to a wide variety of soups and stews that cater to every taste, season, occasion, and course. • Dubbed "The Paleo Bible" by readers, Practical Paleo explains how simply eating real, whole foods and avoiding processed, refined foods can improve our health. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Mon. Nov. 7 • Melissa Joulwan • Well Fed Weeknights: Complete Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes or Less • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEBursting with vibrant flavors and foolproof recipes, the third installment in the best-selling Well Fed cookbook series puts more than 125 complete—and crazy-delicious—paleo meals on your table in 45 minutes or less. Melissa Joulwan brings her love for food and spirit of adventure to a knockout collection of weeknight recipes inspired by takeout classics, food trucks, and cuisines from around the world—all totally free of grains, dairy, legumes, and soy. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Wed. Nov. 9 • Irvin Lin • Marbled, Swirled, and Layered: 150 Recipes and Variations for Artful Bars, Cookies, Pies, Cakes, and More • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEWhen you marble, layer, and swirl doughs, batters, toppings, or frostings, good looks and good taste come together in one total package. Irvin Lin, creator of the popular blog Eat the Love, shows how these techniques open the door to inventive flavor combinations that look as fantastic as they taste. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sat. Nov. 12 • Dorie Greenspan • Dorie's Cookies • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEOver the course of her baking career, Dorie Greenspan has created more than 300 cookie recipes. Yet she has never written a book about them—until now. To merit her “three purple stars of approval,” every cookie had to be so special that it begged to be made again and again. Cookies for every taste and occasion are here. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sun. Nov. 13 • Shane Mitchell • Far Afield: Rare Food Encounters from Around the World • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREE, with sangritas and salsa verde!Journalist Shane Mitchell and photographer James Fisher have traveled the world on assignment for food and travel publications such as Travel + Leisure and Saveur. Along the way, they have encountered the fascinating people who are keeping some of the world's oldest food traditions alive, such as taro farmers in Hawaii who have never left the islands, Maasai warriors in Kenya, and Icelandic shepherds who still use the techniques of their Viking ancestors. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Thurs. Nov. 17 • Ryan Scott • One to Five: One Shortcut Recipe Transformed Into Five Easy Dishes • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE, with snacks from Ryan's forthcoming restaurant, Finn Town!One to Five is cooking for real life: master one basic recipe and learn to spin it into five quick, affordable, and crowd-pleasing dishes. Discover how Ryan's killer marinade, a simple rotisserie chicken, or an easy slow-cooker roast can turn into soul-satisfying meals like carnitas, stuffed egg rolls, sliders, a Vietnamese salad, and a hearty stew. Ryan Scott is the owner of Finn Town in San Francisco. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sat. Nov. 19 • Brian Keyser • Composing the Cheese Plate: Recipes, Pairings, and Platings for the Inventive Cheese Course • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREETired of the same-old cheese plate? So were fromager Brian Keyser and pastry chef Leigh Friend when they set out to change the cheese game at New York City’s Casellula Cheese & Wine Café - and change it they did. Now they’re sharing their secrets in this insider’s guide to the wide, wondrous world of cheese, and the condiments that bring it to the next level. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Tues. Nov. 29 • Rebecca Katz • Clean Soups: Simple, Nourishing Recipes for Health and Vitality • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREESoup has a unique ability to nourish and heal the body. In Clean Soups, author Rebecca Katz shows you how to use wholesome stocks and soups to naturally detox and stay energized year-round. She also explains the building blocks for creating deliciously balanced soups, such as Moroccan carrot soup, kale soup with coconut and lime, and simplest chicken pho. With foundational broths, blended soups, and traditional healing soups, as well as a two-day cleanse, Clean Soups shows how one simple bowl can make a huge difference in how you feel. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Wed. Nov. 30. • Jeffrey Yoskowitz & Liz Alpern • The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREELiz Alpern and Jeffrey Yoskowitz are on a mission to reclaim and revolutionize Ashkenazi cuisine. Combining the inventive spirit of a new generation and respect for their culinary tradition, they present more than a hundred recipes pulled deep from the kitchens of Eastern Europe and the diaspora community of North America. Their recipes highlight the best of Ashkenazi home and storefront cuisine. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Thurs. Dec. 1 • Trine Hahnemann • Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEThe Scandinavians excel at comfort - family, friends, a good atmosphere, long meals, relaxation, and an emphasis on the simple pleasures. They even have a word for this kind of coziness that comes with spending quality time in hearth and home when the days are short: "hygge". Trine Hahnemann is the doyenne of Scandinavian cooking, and loves nothing more than spending time in her kitchen cooking up comforting food in good company. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Fri. Dec. 2 • Rod Phillips • French Wine: A History • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE, with wine!French Wine is the first synthetic history of wine in France: from Etruscan, Greek, and Roman imports and the adoption of wine by beer-drinking Gauls to its present status within the global marketplace. Rod Phillips places the history of grape growing and winemaking in each of the country’s major regions within broad historical and cultural contexts. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sat. Dec. 3 • Naomi Pomeroy • Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREEThis is James Beard Award-winning and self-made chef Naomi Pomeroy's debut cookbook, featuring nearly 140 lesson-driven recipes designed to improve the home cook's understanding of professional techniques and flavor combinations in order to produce simple, but show-stopping meals. Her restaurant Beast, in Portland, Oregon, is regularly lauded as one of the best the city has to offer. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Sun. Dec. 4 • Hendrik Haase • Crafted Meat: The New Meat Culture: Craft and Recipes • 3:00-4:00 p.m. FREECrafted Meat is a compelling visual reference on today's new meat culture. It documents current developments, products, and background stories for both epicures and makers. It explores how to find the best butcher, the tools of the trade, and the differences between cattle breeds and cuts of meat. It answers questions such as how bologna is made and what should be served with blood sausage.Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Mon. Dec. 5 • Cal Peternell • A Recipe for Cooking • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREETwelve Recipes provided the basic techniques and recipes for essential home cooking. Now, A Recipe for Cooking takes home cooks to the next level. Cal Peternell gives you everything you need to cook for big get-togethers, holiday feasts, family occasions, and for a special dinner for two. He organizes the recipes by season to help cooks plan their meals from first bite to last—how a meal should start, what should be the main attraction, what should be served alongside, and how to choose the perfect finish. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Tues. Dec. 6 • Best Food Writing 2016 • Featuring Phyllis Grant, Michael Procopio, John Birdsall, and Jessica Battilana! • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEFrom the year’s hottest trends (this year: meal kits and extreme dining) to the realities of everyday meals and home cooks (with kids, without; special occasions and every day) to highlighting those chefs whose magic is best spun in their own kitchens, these essays once again skillfully, deliciously evoke what’s on our minds—and our plates. Join a panel of this year's authors and pull up a chair. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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Thurs. Dec 8 • Elaine Khosrova • Butter: A Rich History • 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREEFrom its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it. With tales about the ancient butter bogs of Ireland, the pleasure dairies of France, and the sacred butter sculptures of Tibet, Khosrova details butter’s role in history, politics, economics, nutrition, and even spirituality and art. Add this event to your calendar. BUY THE BOOK
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