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 No. 1 →  Drop by at Noon on SAT MAR 9 for a Filipino American dessert Pop-up all baked by the Sugarcane author herself, Arlyn Osborne. On the menu: Strawberry Rambutan Bars, Ube Banana Bread, and Chocolate Sesame Oil Cake. Buy a baked good and/or get your book signed by Arlyn! 

 No. 2 →  Honestly, the highlight of our year and it has only just started. Come to our evening with the legendary Darina Allen on March 13th.  

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  Arielle Johnson is dropping by the shop this March 14th to celebrate Flavorama. She's a flavor scientist (with a friggin Ph.D.) who consults for some of the top chefs and restaurants in the world.   Rene Redzepi said, “Arielle changed the way that I think about flavor, and in these pages, she will do the same for you."   !!!  She will be joined by the amazing writer, recipe developer, and pastry chef Lisa Marie Donovan. She was one of our very favorite past BookBook Club authors with Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger a few years back...  Tix are $5 / $40 

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  The Norwich Meadows Farm Summer CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is now up! Scroll down for a video about the farm.  Please note, the deadline to sign up is March 15th and deliveries start in mid June.  "Why?" you ask. Well, this is the way of the CSA: You are an investor. You pay now, we send them the money asap. This chunk of money helps the farm fund the start of their season (when they have very little cash flow.) As an investor perk, you get 22 weeks of stuffed boxes of the highest quality, inspired veg for something around $40 a week.   It's our fourth year with Norwich and their creativity and Egyptian farming techniques continue to inspire us. Invest here. 

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  We are selling a merchandiser fridge. Spec details here. Tell world! Deals Deals Deals. Half awf the retail price! Cowabunga!  Email [email protected] for more details or reply to this email. 

No. 6  →  We are hiring! We have two part-time positions available. 2-3 days a week, $20 an hour. Must work at work. Send email to [email protected] 

No. 7  →  Quietly ramping up queer bingo night :000 shhhhh 

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A   R A R E   S E L E C T I O N

The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher / $150

Hardcover

1954

Five complete books in one volume: Serve It Forth | Consider The Oyster | How To Cook A Wolf | The Gastronomical Me | An Alphabet For Gourmets

In Good Dust Jacket, light foxing, corners sharp, pages crisp, no marks, a really sturdy copy.

Would you like to eat things that are not nonsense? Secure a curated mystery assortment of exquisite foods that restores faith in the universe.

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our upcoming events + happenings

 B O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR FEB 29 Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novels, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss. Read through MILK: Through a Glass Darkly and join us IN PERSON on leap year. Free, Books for sale 

 C O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR MAR 7 IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through The Dominican Kitchen by Vanessa Mota in FBRUARY and drop by with a dish on THURSDAY MAR 7th! All are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! Potlucks with all of you give us a dose of hope for the universe! Free event, Books + Drinks for sale 

 P O P   U P SAT MAR 9 Join us for a very special pop-up with Arlyn Osborne as we celebrate her new cookbook Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes from My Half-Filipino Kitchen. All treats will be baked by Arlyn and, whilst we sling books and treats, she'll be hanging at the shop with all of you mingling and personally signing your copy! Free to hang, Books + Baked Goods for sale 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T WED MAR 13 Author Darina Allen is Ireland's best known cook, a best-selling author, a passionate and committed teacher, food ambassador, and main figure in Ireland's Slow Food movement. She will be joined by one of our favorite people, the amazing writer and pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz. $5 or book 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T THUR MAR 14 Author Arielle Johnson is a flavor scientist (with a Ph.D.) who consults for some of the top chefs and restaurants in the world. Rene Redzepi said, “Arielle changed the way that I think about flavor, and in these pages, she will do the same for you." She will be joined by one of our very favorite BookBook Club authors, the amazing writer, recipe developer, and pastry chef Lisa Marie Donovan. $5 or book 

 C O M M U N I T Y   G R O U P WED MAR 20 Love to write poetry and want a place to workshop it? Come join POETRY TABLE, a low stakes environment for your experiments, a place to meet fellow writers in the hood, and a way to establish a regular practice. Free, Drinks for sale 

Z O O M   A U T H O R   E V E N T SUN MAY 19 Join us for a very special conversation with author Fadi Kattan. Fadi lives and works Bethlehem, so he will be joining us over Zoom. The talk will be moderated by Professor Nevine Abraham of Carnegie Mellon University. Save the date and preorder a book today. $5 or book

 G A M E   N I G H T WED MAR 27  Hosted by Liz Alpern of Queer Soup Night and The Gefilteria. We'll be playing four rounds of serious bingo for serious prizes. (Think fancy italian things.) Delicious snacks provided by Chef Liz and beer/wine available to purchase. $10 tickets gets your entry for the big game. 

 A N O T H E R   B O O K   C L U B JAN/FEB 2024 We are partnering with writer Alicia Kennedy for her January/February pick from The Desk Book Club: The Desk Book Club will be a monthly space for discussion on four different food nonfiction books per year, ranging from memoir to reportage to, in some cases, more academic food studies work. Meetings will be held for Alicia's paid subscribers only. 

  ART NOW ON VIEW / i n   B O O K S HEADS WILL ROLL 

New sculptural objets de art from Daniel Zender.

S O C I A L   C L U B: Join us as we build a community around building community cookbooks! It's the COMMUNITY COOKBOOK COMMITTEE. Learn more here. Want to be a part of the reading/editing/ compiling team that makes this all happen? Email us to be added to the Google Group and we will keep you updated about when these meetings will resume.

PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A COMMUNITY GROUP or HAVING AN EVENT.

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