Now You’re Cooking, Hunt Gather Cook, Peach Farmer’s Daughter, Hands-off Cooking — just some of the featured cookbooks at the Cookbook Sale and Swap, Saturday June 25, 10 am to 3 pm, Café Bernardo Midtown.
Admit it. You have cookbooks you haven’t read sitting on bookshelves, stacked alongside the bed, within reading distance of the toilet, residing in boxes in the basement, and the addiction is so strong you’re compelled to buy more. But, you have a rule. No more books unless you get rid of the books you’ve got.
What to do about it? Join FoodTalk@Cafe Bernardo Saturday, June 25th from 10 am - 3:00 pm for a Cookbook Sale and Swap.
Stop by from 10 am to 11:00 and join the conversation with authors Elaine Corn, Ann Rolke and Kate Washington, as they talkabout the pleasures of the table, the ins and outs of food writing, and sign their books. Other food writers and cookbook authors will join them throughout the day.
The Swap begins at 11:00. Bring up to five gently used cookbooks, food memoir, food essays, or food-related novels you’re ready to pass on. Talk someone else into swapping with you. It’s that simple.
Can’t part with any of your books? Choose from an incredible collection of new, used, rare and vintage cookbooks, food essays, memoir, gardening and travel books and magazines supplied by the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library Book Den and ArtWorks in the Kitchen and at much better then used bookstore prices.
There is a $15 required donation to MatrixArts (payable by cash or by check). In exchange you get a $15 certificate to use at the ArtWorks book sale table or at future FoodTalk events, plus drinks and snacks. Have a lot more than five books you want to get rid of? Donate them to us. Proceeds benefit the Sacramento Public Library and Soil Born Farms.
FoodTalk is sponsored by MatrixArts, a 501 (c)3 that bridges the visual, literary, performing and culinary arts.
Café Bernardo is located at 2726 Capitol Avenue in Midtown Sacramento. Metered parking is on the street or you can park in the garage next door for $5.
For more information contact: foodtalk@me.com or foodtalksacramento.com or call Maryellen Burns at 916-768-6077.
Hank Shaw — Hunt, Gather, Cook wins accolades
Sam Sifton from the New York Times reviewed Hank Shaw’s book, Hunt, Gather, Cook — Finding the Forbidden Feast, this Sunday and gave it high praise. And, he won the IACP Awards (International Association of Culinary Professionals) for best food blog!
Meet him this Saturday in conversation with Elaine Corn, at FoodTalk@Cafe Bernardo. Admission is $15 and includes the talk, food, drink and membership in FoodTalk. $30 includes a signed copy of the book.
Proceeds benefit free food talks and other writing programs in local libraries this summer and fall.
Call 916-768-6077 or foodtalk@me.com for reservations as space is limited.
Blind Tasting
Blind Tasting – FoodTalk@Cafe Bernardo
Maryellen Burns and Lynn Gowdy, June 4, 2011
Maryellen Burns spends a lot of time thinking, talking, writing and teaching about food. How to buy it, grow it, cook it, eat it, and travel around the world in search of it.
Armed with a pen, a camera, a journal, a husband, and a facile ability with language, she captures snap shots of their cultural and gastronomic adventures — fresh steamed crab in paper cups served on the San Francisco pier, the prickle of Prosecco on the back of the throat, the aroma of a long-simmering sauce, the sound of French fries sizzling in duck fat, the troubling sight of a horn worm munching on leaves of a freshly planted tomato plant. From time to time her experiences are translated into stories in magazines, newspapers, or on one of her many blogs. But, most often they’re shared with friends and family who join she and husband Leo around their kitchen table.
Lynn Gowdy spends a lot of time thinking, talking, writing and teaching about food, too. She experienced an intense corporate life in Chicago but “a longing set in to take part in harvests, to touch bins crested with freshly picked grapes”, and her passion about food and wine pushed its way to the surface, leading her to pursue a fervor for food and wine at the Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver. Over the years she’s developed a discerning palate. She was “blessed” to do a practicum with Rick Mahon of Waterboy restaurant, ran the demo kitchen at Whole Foods for a while and joined author Ann Rolke, on the popular blog – Sacatomato.
Lynn and Maryellen met a year or so ago, at Word of Mouth, a weekly food-writing program Maryellen taught through MatrixArts, a local non-profit. The program ended but their weekly talks didn’t.
On June 4th, Maryellen and Lynn will broaden their conversation to other pen and palate types at Blind Tasting, the first in the Food Talk@Café Bernardo series.
“Blind Tasting” gives us an opportunity to indulge in two of life’s greatest pleasures, eating and words,” Ms. Burns reports.
“Most of us eat three or four times a day, and talk about food constantly, but tend to use the same clichés whether telling a story around the kitchen table, or writing a blog entry. Delicious, yummy, unctuous, food porn, and decadent dessert are especially tiresome.”
“Lynn and Iwanted to offer an outlet for home cooks, eaters, food professionals and aspiring writers to improve their palate and food vocabulary. We’ll explore techniques to develop subtle nuances in flavor, aroma, sound and texture and explore creative word games, simile, analogy and metaphor.”
Why blindfolded? Shouldn’t we use all our senses when talking about or writing about food?
“It’s said we eat with our eyes and taste with our nose. If we see what we’re eating we tend to limit our descriptions to what we observe and forget to explore the other senses.”
“Lynn and I understand it’s difficult to describe something we can’t see to someone so they have a clear idea of what the object is and that most people recoil at the feel of slimy or gritty things, but that’s what makes the workshop so much fun! Through a series of tastes, and time after to craft delectable prose, participants will discover new ways to talk about food and find their unique food voice.”
Blind Tasting runs from 10 am to 1 pm, at Café Bernardo Midtown, 2726 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento. The $15 admission includes the workshop, tasting, beverage, and member discounts to future FoodTalk programs. For more information or to make reservations contact Maryellen at 916-768-6077 or email foodtalk@me.com. Additional information about Blind Tasting and other FoodTalk@Cafe Bernardo programs are posted on foodtalksacramento.com and talkfood.tumblr.com.
More about FoodTalk.
FoodTalk provides a forum and tons of resources for home cooks, professional chefs, eaters, food producers, writers, and others who care about the who, what, where, when, how, and why of what we eat.
Join us as we gather around the web, eat, drink and unearth stories about cooking at home, growing your own, eating out, local food traditions, food history, etiquette, politics, artisanal manufacturers, chefs, grocery stores, farmers markets, cookbooks… and an endless array of facts and fictions about the food world.
If you live in or are visiting Sacramento attend tastings, classes, workshops, talks, forums, tours, conferences, and even theatrical performances at Café Bernardo in Midtown; R25, the arts and cultural complex, the Sacramento Public Library and other venues throughout the region.
Have stories, poems, or even some food fiction of your own? We’ll post them plus your photographs, illustrations, juicy tidbits, gossip, news, recipes and comments. Our submission guidelines will be posted soon, but for now, email us at foodtalk@me.com. Accepted articles will be posted at talkfood.tumbler.com.
Blind Tasting — Maryellen Burns & Lynn Gowdy
It’s said we eat with our eyes first, but what if we took away one of our senses? Taste an array of Cafe Bernardo’s iconic menu items, stretch your palate, and create a new vocabulary for talking or writing about food and drink. June 4, 2011 10 am to 1 pm
Hunt, Gather, Cook — Hank Shaw in conversation with Elaine Corn Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook — Finding the Forgotten Feast, will share his experiences in the field, in the kitchen and on the pages of his award winning blog Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook. Join in the conversation with journalist/cookbook writer Elaine Corn. Books available for purchase. June 11, 2011 10 am to 1 pm
Kitchen Diaries — Joy Gee & Janice Kelley
All those recipes, and stories gathering in your head or garnered from cookbooks, blogs, food magazines and memory should be gathered for posterity. Artist Joy Gee and writer Janice Kelley will guide you through the creation of a hand-made book filled with original stories, recipes, illustrations, collage, clip art or photographs. June 18, 2011 10 am to 1 pm
Cookbook Sale and Swap
Meet Ann Rolke, Elaine Corn and other Northern California cookbook writers, plus choose from hundreds of new, used, and rare cookbooks, food essay, food history, gardening and wine books. Bring up to five books to swap, too. June 25, 2011 10 am to 3 pm.
To reserve a spot, email foodtalk@me.com call 916-768-6077, or 916-454-4988 or check out foodtalksacramento.com or talkfood.tumblr.com.
Proceeds benefit Friends Around the Table, a community cookbook produced by the Friends of the Ella K. McClatchy Library, MatrixArts Kids in the Kitchen and FoodTalk@the Library, free programs that begin this fall in local libraries throughout Sacramento County. FOODTALK is sponsored by MatrixArts, a 501 (c3) non- profit that bridges the visual,literary, performing and culinary arts.
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