Past Events
November 2016
Delicious Dish: Cuba and the Road to Compostela
Veronica Cervera’s La Cocina Cubana De Vero offers 100 recipes that represent the mainstays of Cuban cuisine, not only from family tradition on the island, but also from exile. Yosmar Monique Martinez’s cookbook, Tastes of the Camino: 30 Authentic Recipes Along the French Way, reveals the foods along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, an ancient pilgrimage route between France and Northern Spain.…
Tastes Like Chicken! Irresistible Dishes: A Cooking Demo
Cynthia Graubart’s Chicken: a Savor the South® cookbook (Savor the South Cookbooks) contains all the know-how that cooks need to make irresistible chicken dishes for everyday and special occasions.…
Delicious Dish: Stories and Recipes from London, L.A. and NYC
Aleksandra Crapanzano’s The London Cookbook: Recipes from the Restaurants, Cafes, and Hole-in-the-Wall Gems of a Modern City is an intimate portrait of London—with 100 recipes from the city’s best dining establishments, all lovingly adapted for the home kitchen. Chef Nancy Silverton’s latest cookbook, Mozza at Home: More than 150 Crowd-Pleasing Recipes for Relaxed, Family-Style Entertaining, provides nineteen menus packed with easy-to-follow recipes that can be prepared in advance. In her latest nonfiction book, Food and the City: New York’s Professional Chefs,…
Butter and Chocolate: A (Sweet) Cooking Demo
In Sheila G. Mains’s cookbook, Sheila G’s Butter & Chocolate: 101 Creative Sweets and Treats Using Brownie Batter, the originator of Brownie Brittle ingeniously uses brownie batter to reinvent well-loved desserts.…
Delicious Dish: Padma Lakshmi and Ben Greenman in Conversation
In The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World, Padma Lakshmi brings together the world’s spices and herbs in a vibrant, comprehensive alphabetical guide, in conversation with Ben Greenman co-author (with Questlove) of Something to Food About: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs.…
Vegan, Vegetarian, Omnivore: A Cooking Demo
In Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore Dinner for Everyone at the Table, James Beard award-winning Anna Thomas shows us how to cook for today’s table, with over 150 recipes for all tastes, and menus for every occasion.…
Maximum Flavor: Cooking Demo with Panda Kitchen Ambassador, Adrianne Calvo
Author of four cookbooks, Executive Chef and Owner of Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar, Panda Kitchen Ambassador and guest chef on NBC 6 in the Mix, Adrianne Calvo demonstrates her techniques for achieving “Maximum Flavor.”…
Delicious Dish: A Chef’s Life in NYC
The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi: A Memoir with Recipes is one woman’s story of cooking her way through some of the most unlikely kitchens in New York City.…
A New Day: Cooking Demo with Telemundo’s Chef Tahhan
The Homemade Chef: Ordinary Ingredients for Extraordinary Food is the debut cookbook from the star co-host of Telemundo’s Emmy winning morning show, Un Nuevo Dia, celebrity chef James Tahhan.…
Delicious Dish: Of Butter and Oysters
In Butter: A Rich History, award-winning food writer and Chef Elaine Khosrova serves up a gripping historical narrative that explores the rich chronicle of innovation, revolution, and controversy of our world’s most famous fat. The Essential Oyster, by Rowan Jacobsen, is the definitive book for today’s oyster lover, featuring stunning portraits, irreverent tasting notes, and delightful backstories of all the top oysters, as well as recipes from America’s top oyster chefs and a guide to the best oyster bars.…
Delicious Dish: Culinary Lore from Land and Sea, with Recipes
Mi Ae Lipe’s Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook is a guide to enjoying over 90 different crops grown by community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms across North America. Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla’s Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare offers 150 nutritious international recipes with a plenitude of imaginative poetry about food and ingredients, along with enlightening literary essays, playful culinary and historical notes, and 200 beautiful full-color photographs.…
November 2017
Booking the Cooks – An Evening of Scrumptious Bites to Benefit Miami Book Fair and Slow Food Miami
Miami Book Fair and Slow Food Miami team up to excite your senses with food, drinks, and celebrity chef demos to kick off this year’s weekend-long festival. At this exclusive VIP reception, guests will savor tastes that are created by local, farm-to-table chefs, just as they appear in their cookbooks. Norman Van Aken, Cindy Hutson, Allen Susser, Adrianne Calvo, Victor Santos, and Richard Ingraham will offer bites and showcase demos throughout the event, bringing their cookbooks to life.…
The Sullivan Street Bakery: A Demo
Applying James Beard Award-winning Jim Lahey‘s Italian-inspired method to his repertoire of pizzas, pastries, egg dishes, and café classics, The Sullivan Street Bakery Cookbook delivers the flavors of a bakery Ruth Reichl once called “a church of bread.” Sponsored by…
The Buying and Selling of Food in America: A Discussion
In Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America’s relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store. Sponsored by…
Perfect Pairings
Join Patrick Alexander, The Booklovers’ Guide To Wine: A Celebration of the History, the Mysteries and the Literary Pleasures of Drinking Wine, and Liz Thorpe, The Book of Cheese, for a demonstration of perfect wine/cheese pairings. Sponsored by…
Essentials to Eating Well: A Discussion
Dr. Sylvia Tara’s groundbreaking book, The Secret Life of Fat brings cutting-edge research together with historical perspectives to reveal fat’s true identity: an endocrine organ that, in the right amount, is critical to our health. Florencia Ramirez’s Eat Less Water tells the story of water served on our plates: an eye-opening account of the under-appreciated environmental threat of water scarcity, a useful cookbook with water-sustainable recipes accompanying each chapter, and a fascinating personal narrative. Sponsored by…
Cooking for Bros: A Demo
Josh Scherer‘s The Culinary Bro-Down Cookbook contains more than seventy creations broken into the ten “brossential” food groups like: Beer, Fried Things, Tacos, and Struggle Snacks (because money is hard). Sponsored by…
From Peppers to Pensacola
MARICEL E. PRESILLA on Peppers of the Americas: The Remarkable Capsicums That Forever Changed Flavor and NORMAN VAN AKEN on Norman Van Aken’s Florida Kitchen – DISCUSSION Sponsored by:…
Recipes for Success
ELAINE DURAN and JULIE VOUDRIE on You’re Next! Turn Your Disappointment into Destiny and RICHARD INGRAHAM on Eating Well to Win: Inspired Living through Inspired Cooking – DISCUSSION…
Culinary Achievements: A Discussion
Panda Kitchen spokeswoman, author, television personality, and owner of Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar, Adrianne Calvo discusses her techniques for achieving maximum flavor. In You’re Next! Turn Your Disappointment into Destiny, Julie Voudry and Elaine Duran share their captivating stories and the principles they applied to go from cake klutzes to television personalities. Using Linda Gassenheimer‘s The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook: Your Super Simple Plan for Organizing, Budgeting, and Cooking Amazing Dinners, you can shop and organize food over the weekend so that just a little cooking will get a meal on the table in minutes throughout the week.…
Tastes of New England: A Cooking Demo
With over 100 vibrant, ingredient-driven recipes, award-winning chef Matt Jennings‘s debut cookbook, Homegrown: Cooking from My New England Roots, honors the iconic foods of his heritage. Sponsored by…
Celebrate Like an Italian: A Discussion
Whether you’re planning a romantic picnic for two, a child’s birthday party, a holiday gathering, or a simple weeknight family dinner, Lidia Bastianich‘s Lidia’s Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party will have you calling to your guests: “Tutti a tavola a mangiare!” Sponsored by:…
A Return to Russian Cooking: A Demo
Bonnie Frumkin Morales‘s Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking’s recipes and narratives show how Russia’s storied tradition of smoked fish, cultured dairy, and a shot of vodka can be celebratory, elegant, and as easy as meat and potatoes. Sponsored by…
Food as History: A Discussion
Adrian Miller’s The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas is an historical chronicle of the daily table in the White House. In The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy, Justin Spring tells the story of six American writer-adventurers in Paris during the 30-year boom that followed WWII, and how they changed the way Americans eat and think about food.…
Cooking With Fruit: A Demo
Nancie McDermott’s latest cookbook, Fruit: A Savor the South Cookbook, collects a dozen of the South’s bountiful locally sourced fruits in a cook’s basket of fifty-four luscious dishes, savory and sweet. Sponsored by…
Healthy and Delicious: A Discussion
Come cook with Justin Fox Burks and find a new love for delicious dishes that just happen to be vegetarian, in The Chubby Vegetarian: 100 Inspired Vegetables for the Modern Table. Whether you’re a CrossFit enthusiast, a working mom, a weekend golfer—or even NBA star Dwyane Wade, Eating Well to Win: Inspired Living Through Inspired Cooking, by Chef Richard Ingraham, shows you how to eat for optimum performance. Sponsored by…