Elias Cairo “Olympia Provisions: Cured Meats and Tales from an American Charcuterie” Monday, January 4, 7:30pm, Powell’s City of Books (1005 W. Burnside St., Portland) A classy yet irreverent cookbook-slash-scrapbook featuring techniques, recipes, and essays about the history and personalities behind Portland’s top-notch meat company and its American charcuterie. Olympia Provisions is one of the…
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A Special Evening with Joanne Weir
Join us in welcoming celebrated author and chef, Joanne Weir, to our pages to plate kitchen! Kitchen Gypsy by Joanne Weir Recipes & Stories from a lifelong Romance with Food December 11: 6-7:30pm Joanne opens up in her most delicious and deeply personal book yet with KITCHEN GYPSY: Recipes and Stories from a Lifelong…
Chefs and Authors Gather for a Culinary, Literary Shopping at Imperial’s Holiday Cookbook Social
Portland Ore. (November 23, 2015) — Holiday shoppers and food lovers will have a rare chance to meet over 20 local chefs, bartenders and cookbook authors on Sunday, December 6th in downtown Portland from 1-3pm. Guests at the third Holiday Cookbook Social, a free event hosted by Imperial’s Chef Vitaly Paley and the Portland Culinary…
Powell’s Books Presents the Following Food Events in December
Jonathan Hennessey & Aaron McConnell “The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World’s Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today’s Craft Brewing Revolution” Friday, December 4th, 7:30pm, Powell’s City of Books (1005 W. Burnside St., Portland) A full-color, lushly illustrated graphic novel that recounts the many-layered past and present of beer through dynamic pictures and…
Tasty author events with Pages to Plate!
Pages to plate is cooking up some delicious books! Drop by next weekend to meet the authors and grab a signed book…it’s the perfect present! THEO CHOCOLATE by Debra Music & Joe Whinney Recipes & Sweet Secrets from Seattle’s Favorite Chocolate Maker Featuring 75 Recipes Both Sweet & Savory November 14: 6-7:30pm Who doesn’t love chocolate?…
Olympia Provisions Cookbook Release Dinner Party!
As you may or may not have heard, Olympia Provisions is finally releasing their first cookbook! The book, titled Olympia Provisions, Cured Meats and Tales from an American Charcuterie, will officially be released on October 27th. In honor of the cookbook release, Olympia Provisions NW is hosting a Cookbook Release Dinner Party – “Back to Wildhaus: the…
Powell’s Books November 2015 food events
Alana Chernila “The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure” Sunday, November 1, 4pm, Powell’s City of Books (1005 W. Burnside St., Portland) Written as much for the reader as the cook, The Homemade Kitchen is a love letter to cooking with 100 impeccably curated keepers that inspire spontaneity and the will simply to cook at…
Five Course Tex-Mex & Chili Dinner with Author Robb Walsh
Come meet Robb Walsh, author of The Chili Cookbook, The Tex-Mex Cookbook, and The Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook. (Among others.) We’ll be serving a five course meal from his books and he will sign your cookbooks and chat with you about all things Texas and chili. (He’s also an expert in oysters.) Chile con…
More 7 of 12 Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing, Co-Edited by Esteemed Portland Food Writer Roger Porter
PORTLAND, Ore. (Sept. 25, 2015) – Chekhov on oysters, Thoreau on watermelons, Hemingway on campfire cooking, David Foster Wallace on lobsters, and Gary Snyder on steak: these are some of the many fascinating and unexpected writings on food gathered in a new book entitled Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing. With a preface…
Powell’s Books Presents the Following Food Events in September
Nancy Singleton Hachisu “Preserving the Japanese Way: Traditions of Salting, Fermenting, and Pickling for the Modern Kitchen” Friday, September 11, 7:30pm, Powell’s City of Books (1005 W. Burnside St., Portland) Preserving the Japanese Way introduces Japanese methods of salting, pickling, and fermenting that are approachable and easy to integrate into a Western cooking repertoire. Documentary-quality photo…