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  Come learn about the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world. Author Michelle T. King and the righteous Marion Nestle will be in conversation. $5 tix 

 No. 2 →  Our screenwriting class commenced this week! Thank you to all who sent in an application.  

 No. 3 →  Cookbook Club freaks take note! One of the sweetest people in food, Dina Begum, is visiting the shop! She will be showing us how to make Chotpoti from her cookbook Made in Bangladesh and then we are all gonna have a lil potluck. Bringing a dish is not mandatory, but it certainly is lovely.  

No. 4  →  Do you know about our CSA partnership with Bloomcourt? Have you seen the most beautiful flowers eva at the shop and then tried to buy them and then we said sorry they are not for sale via this particular present means? This is how you hop on the flower clubby: 

No. 5  →

  Very few tickets are left for our event with Sarah and Sara of Kismet in LA alongside the Andy Baraghani. Come. The book is all your favorite foods. 

No. 6  →  Things we are working on this month: beefing up the kid's section and the notebook situation. Come watch them grow. The store is alive.  

no spring chicken!

A   R A R E   S E L E C T I O N

Pei-Mei's Chinese Cook Book Volume 3 by Fu Pei-Mei/ $85

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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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 → a lil introduction to the owners of Kismet and their beautiful surroundings. Just a few tickets left for Tuesday's event!

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our upcoming events + happenings

 C L A S S WED MAY to JUN Ever had an idea for a screenplay but have no idea where to start? If so, this class is for you!

Local hero and screenwriting professor Sophie Finkelstein will introduce you to the craft of screenwriting and take you through an exploration into the universal art of storytelling. SOLD OUT 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T MON MAY 6 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food. Author Michelle T. King will be joined in conversation by the righteous Marion Nestle.   A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world.  $5 or book 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T TUE MAY 7 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes. Authors Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson will be joined in conversation by the lovely Andy Baraghani.  Bold Mediterranean flavors and vegetable-centric California cuisine unite in 100+ bright, fresh recipes for everyday meals, from the women chef-owners behind Kismet and Kismet Rotisserie in Los Angeles. $5 or book 

 D E M O  +  P O T L U C K THUR MAY 9 Join us for a very special food demonstration, chat, signing, and potluck with Dina Begum as we celebrate her cookbook Made in Bangladesh: Recipes and stories from a home kitchen. 

The evening will begin with Dina giving a short demo of one of our most favorite dishes: Chotpoti! Chotpoti is a popular all-day snack and it packs a real punch in terms of flavor: there's tanginess from the tamarind, heat from the ground and fresh chillies, plus grated hard-boiled egg, and crisp crunchy pastry, cucumber, and onions. $5 or book 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T TUE MAY 14 Join us for a very special evening in celebration of Flavors from the Farm: Vegetable-Forward Food to Share. Author Emma Hearst will be joined in conversation by fellow cookbook author Odette Williams.  From acclaimed chef Emma Hearst, Flavors from the Farm celebrates fresh food from her Upstate New York farmstead with 100+ flavor-forward recipes from the garden. $5 or book 

 V E R Y  S E C R E T  F I L M  C L U B THUR MAY 16 Join us at the shop for a community film night! We love film, so does our neighbor, friend, and film professor Sophie Finkelstein, and so we present to you: FILM CLUB. It is simple - we will show a film. Afterwards, we will force you to discuss it with us for at least 15 to 30 minutes, depending. There will be snacks and drinks for sale. Come! It's life affirming, etc. Free, Drinks + Snacks 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

 C O O K B O O K   C L U B TUES MAY 21 IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through The Jewish Holiday Table in MAY and drop by with a dish on TUESDAY MAY 21st! 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 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T THUR MAY 23 Happy Birthday week to Arthur Russell: Matt Marble returns to the shop!

  Join us for a very special lecture exploring the notebooks of cellist, composer, and musician Arthur Russell. In Matt Marble's book Buddhist Bubblegum: Esotericism in the creative process of Arthur Russell (Coolgrove Press), he dives deep into the mystery of Arthur Russell and offers an unprecedented exploration into his lifelong Vajrayana Buddhist practice. $5 or book 

 P O E T R Y    T A B L E  TUE MAY 28 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. Hosted by poet Ariela Gittlen. Free 

 B O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR MAY 30 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 How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher and join us IN PERSON in May. Free, Books for sale 

 A N O T H E R   B O O K   C L U B MAY/JUN 2024 We are partnering with writer Alicia Kennedy for her May/June 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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