Wright Eats

Cooks & Books has a great lineup of visiting chefs and authors coming to Seattle this fall.  Kim Ricketts has been organizing these dinners for several years now, where she hosts a chef or food writer at a Seattle restaurant, promoting a new book release.  In past, we’ve attended dinners with Michael Ruhlman and Michael Pollan, two of our favorite food writers.  The events this fall look really exciting, and there are still seats left.

There’s been one new addition to the lineup that I’m particularly excited about – I finally get to meet Marcella Hazan!  She is my all-time favorite cookbook author.  Hers were the first cookbooks that Eric and I really learned to cook from, and we still consider our Hazan cookbooks the ultimate references for delicious Italian cooking.  I say “Hazan cookbooks” because her son, Giuliano, also has several outstanding books, all sitting on our cookbook shelf.

Marcella and her husband Victor, who translates her words and thoughts into the English text in her books, are coming to celebrate the release of her memoir.  I’m looking forward to reading it – each person who attends a Cooks & Books dinner gets a copy of the book, which you can get personally signed by the author.

Karen Page & Andrew Dornenburg                                   
THE FLAVOR BIBLE
September 28
The Corson Building

Marcella and Victor Hazan
AMARCORD: Marcella Remembers
October 13
Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery

David Tanis
A PLATTER OF FIGS AND OTHER RECIPES
October 27
Lark

Andrew Carmellini
URBAN ITALIAN
November 19
Tavolàta

Eric Ripert
ON THE LINE: Inside the World of Le Bernardin
December 14
Union

Now, if only Kim could get Grant Achatz to visit with his new book…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pm and is filed under Cookbooks, Events.