Cindy Pawlcyn - Cooks with Books: Cindy’s Supper Club: Meals from Around the World to Share with Family and Friends
Admission $115 per person/ $185 per couple
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
Join Cindy Pawlcyn, one of America's leading
chef's, for what we know will be a very special event! Twice nominated
as the James Beard Best Chef in California, Pawlcyn is rocking the food
world with her new cookbook, Cindy's Supper Club.
It's
no secret that legions of fans flock to Pawlcyn's restaurants for her
globally influenced signature dishes. What is not so well known is that
Cindy has turned her passions for cooking and travel into a popular
supper club, where she creates an adventurous menu celebrating a
different international cuisine each week. Cindy's Supper Club has
become a destination event, presenting a world tasting tour on a plate.
Pawlcyn's new book, drawn from the weekly menus of her supper clubs, is a
collection of 125 complete recipes and menus from around the globe - as well as a delicious delight.
Pawlcyn
helped make the Napa Valley a destination for food and wine in Northern
California. Today, her trio of restaurants - Mustard’s Grill, Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen, and Brassica - are as much loved among locals as
they are popular with visitors. Besides owning three of region's popular
restaurants, Pawlcyn is also the author of four award-winning cookbooks
including Mustard's Grill Napa Valley Cookbook, Big Small Plates, and Cindy Pawlcyn's Appetizers. She received a James Beard award for Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook and is the author of Fog City Diner Cookbook.
Don't miss this event! Tickets are $115 per person / or $185 per couple. Price includes meal, wine, coffee, tax, tip, & a signed copy of the book.
- Street:
- Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen
- Additional:
- 1327 Railroad Ave.
- City:
- St. Helena ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94574
- Country:
- United States
Literary Pilgrimage to the Soul of England - A Journey Abroad with Roger Housden
Roger Housden
May 28 to June 5,
2012
A unique and leisurely journey through southern England and the landscape that inspired Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, TS Eliot, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare.
While visiting their homes and the places that inspired them, Roger will draw from the work of these authors as a guide for our own soul's journey.
We visit Jane Austen's house in Hampshire, as well as the City of Bath; Thomas Hardy's home in the county town of Dorchester, and Stonehenge along the way. Then to the village of East Coker, location for one of TS Eliot's Four Quartets, and Tintern Abbey, the subject of Wordsworth's famous poem. We spend a day at Hay on Wye Literature Festival, the greatest festival of its kind in the world, which takes place every year in the Welsh border country. After visiting Stratford on Avon we shall attend a performance at the Globe Theatre in London, and then spend our final day visiting our own choice of London's great sights. We never drive more than a hundred miles in a day at most, and usually much less, so this is indeed a leisurely pilgrimage with no early starts.
Cost:
$3750
Maximum participants: 12 Includes all hotels ( 3x3 star and 2x5 star), tips for hotel staff, seven
dinners, six breakfasts, group transport by minibus, airport transfers, services
of Roger Housden and Braeda Horan.
Not included: international airfare,
lunches, all beverages except for included breakfasts.
Full
itinerary and registration form:
Download Itinerary
You can email Roger at info@rogerhousden.com. Visit Roger on the Web at www.rogerhousden.com.
About Roger Housden:
Roger
Housden has written some twenty books, including the best-selling Ten
Poems series, three travel books, the novella Chasing Rumi, and a
book on Rembrandt. All his books, whatever the subject, encourage us to ask
questions that help us to live into the best that we are. His Ten Poems
series has shown many thousands of readers how literature can be a guide for the
soul. He will be assisted by his partner, English designer Braeda
Horan.
- Street:
- Travel with Roger Housden
- City:
- England ,
- Country:
- United Kingdom
Marcus Samuelsson - YES, CHEF
Admission $110 per person
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
Some may recognize Marcus Samuelsson as the winner of Top Chef: Master's Season 2 or as the James Beard Foundation award winning chef of New York City's Red Rooster Harlem. In his memoir, YES, CHEF, Samulesson chronicles his incredible journey from the age of 3 when he was orphaned along with his sister in Ethiopia after walking 75 miles from a remote village to a hospital to try and save his mother from succumbing to tuberculosis. Later, when he was adopted by a loving Swedish family, Samuelsson developed a lifelong passion for cooking alongside his Swedish grandmother, Helga. From this humble beginning to some of the most demanding restaurants in Europe, Samuelsson then arrived in NYC's Aquavit. While there, he earned a coveted three-star rating from the New York Times at the age of 24. President Clinton writes, "In his famed dishes, and now in this memoir, Marcus Samuelsson tells a story that reaches past racial and national divides to the foundations of family, hope and downright good food."
Join us at the top rated Jardinière restaurant in SF, along with co-owner and award winning chef/restauranteur, Traci des Jardins. Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy
- Street:
- Jardinière
- Additional:
- 300 Grove Street
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94102
- Country:
- United States
Salman Rushdie - Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Tickets $35 (includes a signed book)
Or call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
At this special event, Salman Rushdie discusses Joseph Anton: A Memoir ($30.00). On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a journalist who told him he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie, an Indian-born British resident, had heard the word "fatwa." His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, a book which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran."
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir, Rushdie tells that story for the first time, as well as the story of a crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.
Compelling, provocative, and moving, Joseph Anton is a book of exceptional frankness, honesty, and vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.
Salman Rushdie's books, from Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize as well as the Best of the Booker) to The Satanic Verses, have been read around the world. Recent works - Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Imaginary Homelands 1981-90, and The Moor's Last Sigh - have enhanced his reputation as one of our most important contemporary writers.
"As with Joyce or Borges or other great writers, Rushdie's linguistic virtuosity incarnates the metamorphic possibilities of language." - Toronto Star. "A rare and magical writer." - Michael Chabon
- Street:
- Dominican University of California
- Additional:
- Angelico Hall
- City:
- San Rafael ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94901
- Country:
- United States
Alice Medrich & Diane Rossen Worthington - Cook with Books: Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts & Seriously Simple Parties
Admission $120 per person
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
Dont miss this special, double-author event and cookbook celebration at one of our favorite local restaurants, Heidi Krahling’s Insalata’s. Diane Rossen Worthington is a veteran author, food consultant, editor, and James Beard award-winning radio show host. Her new cookbook Seriously Simple Parties is part of a series of Seriously Simple cookbooks. With her will be Alice Medrich, who has won so many awards for her desserts that she’s often referred to as the First Lady of Chocolate. She’s the author of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts. Guests will receive both cookbooks as part of the ticket price!
Join us for this special Cooks with Books event. Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy below.
- Street:
- Insalata’s
- Additional:
- 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
- City:
- San Anselmo ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94960
- Country:
- United States
Shelley Lindgren & Matthew Accarrino - Cook with Books: SPQR: Modern Italian Food and Wine
Admission $115 per person
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
SPQR on Fillmore Street in San Francisco is the place to explore Italian cuisine and artisanal wines. The SPQR cookbook, SPQR: Modern Italian Food and Wine, explodes with those flavors and traditions, providing inspiration for chef Matthew Accarrino’s dishes, such as Chestnut Pasta Broccoli de Cicco, Burnt Orange Sauce and Pork Jowl. Accarrino and wine director/owner Shelley Lindgren host this event at SPQR’s sister restaurant, A16, on Chestnut Street.
Join us for this special Cooks with Books event. Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy below.
- Street:
- A16
- Additional:
- 2355 Chestnut St.
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94123
- Country:
- United States
Hubert Keller - Cook with Books: Hubert Keller's Souvenirs
Admission $125 per person
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
We’ll all be clamoring to go to the Left Bank to celebrate Hubert Keller's Souvenirs: Stories and Recipes from My Life, the new book by one of America’s most talented chefs, Hubert Keller. Raised in Alsace France, Keller was destined to be in the kitchen as he grew up above his father’s patisserie. He apprenticed under many great French chefs until he landed in San Francisco and became the chef/owner of the popular Fleur de Lys restaurant along with his wife Chantal and Maurice Rouas. Chef Keller has been named the James Beard Foundation’s “Best Chef: California.”
Join us for this special Cooks with Books event. Don't wait to sign up - space is limited. Can't attend the event? Order a signed copy.
- Street:
- Left Bank
- Additional:
- 507 Magnolia Ave.
- City:
- Larkspur ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94939
- Country:
- United States
