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FALL APPEARANCES
Brunch, Lecture and Book Signing
JEWISH LIFE (LEARNING IS FOR EVERYONE)
Sunday, November 16
10:30 brunch and lecture
Shimon and Sara Birnbaum JCC in Bridgewater, New Jersey
775 Talamini Road
For reservations, call (908) 725-6994, ext 201 - you can pay with Amex or Mastercard
$18 for brunch for Jewish Life members, $21 for non members
$36 for brunch at pre-ordered book, $39 for non members
$25 for books not pre-ordered
After brunch, I'll be presenting my illustrated lecture based on "Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited." It's a food culture, food history, nostalgia lecture, complete with menus and memorabilia from the Borscht Belt hotels. But I won't be able to resist throwing out some advice on chicken soup and kugel, among other iconic Yiddish dishes. Discussion follows the lecture, not to mention schmoozing.
Luncheon and Lecture
CONGREGATION RODETH SHOLOM
Tuesday, November 18
11:30 lunch, 12:30 program
7 West 83rd St., Manhattan
$8 requested contribution to cover dairy buffet lunch
For reservations, call Debra Barnes, dbarnes@crsnyc.org (you can pay at the door)
Have laptop, will travel -- with my Power Point presentation based on "Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited." It's not a cooking lecture, although I am quite free with cooking advice. It's a food culture, food history, nostalgia lecture, complete with menus and memorabilia from the Borscht Belt hotels. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Thanksgiving Radio Hotline
MARIO BOSQUEZ PROGRAM, MARTHA STEWART CHANNE
Tuesday, November 25
4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sirus satellite radio
The Wine Chick, Carol Berman, and I will be back together on the radio to answer your last-minute wine and food questions.
Lecture, Coffee and Cake, Book Signing
GREAT NECK CONTINUING EDUCATION
Thursday, December 4
7:30 p.m.
Cumberland Adult Center
30 Cumberland Ave.
$25 fee
For reservations and info, call (516) 773-1713
I'll be baking myself for this event: the now famous apple-walnut cake
(see the recipe at thefoodmaven.com), and something without nuts. But you'll
have to sit through my illustrated lecture first - not that it's a painful
experience. Books (sold at discount) will be available for purchase and
signing.
Radio in Los Angeles and on the Internet
CHEF JAMIE RADIO SHOW
> Sunday, December 7
Noon EST (9 a.m. PST)
Adorable, talented chef Jamie Gwen and I go way back. Maybe you remember
her from my radio program. For Thanksgiving she visits her mother, Lana's
family in Westchester and so she'd help me with last-minute, day-before
Thanksgiving questions on the air. Now I am on her air, which you can listen
to live by going to:
http://player.play.it/player/player.html?id=117&onestat=klsx-freefm
For Jamie's own site, where you can find her former shows archived, go to
www.ChefJamie.com
Demonstration and Book Signing
WILLIAMS-SONOMA TIME WARNER CENTER
Sunday, December 14
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Columbus Circle, Manhattan
Free
Come get your latkes! I'll be standing and frying, and of course schmoozing and signing "Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited," at Manhattan's largest Williams Sonoma store. Come for fun, or - do I really have to say this -- to buy some books for Chanukah gifts.
Illustrated Lecture
FOOD SHOPPING IN BROOKLYN
Sunday, December 21
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
Grand Army Plaza
My hometown, Brooklyn, is like a continent unto itself. Going from one community to the next is like going from one country to another. I shop them all. I'll be focusing on Italian and kosher foods in Brooklyn, with photos, but if you want to know where to buy goat to curry, I'll
