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  Devra Ferst, our good friend, food writer, and Archestratus professoressa of our many years running should-be-award-winning class Breaking into Food Writing co-authored a cookbook!  Join us as we celebrate her new book The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long. We are filled with joy and pride! Come Come. There will be juniper gravalax! 

 No. 2 →  If there was anyone to write a cookbook about the food of the French Riviera, it's Rosa Jackson. She's been running a cooking school called Les Petit Farcis (translation: think lil veggies stuffed with breadcrumbs and anchovies) for over twenty years in Nice, leading tour groups with Edible Paris, and has written articles about this region in publications like Food + Wine. Come, she has so much to share and it's all in this book! 

No. 3  →

  Sophie is teaching screenwriting at the shop! Apply to be a part of this small group today. You will leave this class with a better understanding of the craft of screenwriting and a clear plan to take on your first (or next) feature with a workshopped outline and a draft of your first act. Wheeeee!

No. 4  →  Watch this space: We are starting up our old film evenings at the shop! Save the date of April 17th and we will be in touch with more deets soon.  

This image is from our first film night back on April 7th of 2017. Were you there?

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  We are still selling this beau merchandiser fridge. We will post this here as long as we need to! Until then, we will just stick more dried pasta into the depths of the fridge. La vita! Spec details here. Thank you for telling da world! Deals Deals Deals. Half awf the retail price! More?  Email [email protected] for more details or reply to this email. 

No. 6  →  We are hiring for a few shifts. $20 an hour, paid lunch (both food and time). Sorry, we are not hiring for chef positions, social media positions, event planning positions, or production positions. We need hardworking, friendly, reliable part-time people. Send over an email to [email protected].  

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Elsie's Cookbook by Elsie the Cow with the aid of Harry Botsford / $80

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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 favorite from the #Archiepinktv film archives. A scene from Life is Sweet (dir. Mike Leigh / 1990)

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our upcoming events + happenings

 A U T H O R   E V E N T WED APR 4 Join us for a very special evening with our good friend, food writer, and Archestratus professoressa Devra Ferst as we celebrate her new co-authored book The Jewish Holiday Table: A World of Recipes, Traditions & Stories to Celebrate All Year Long. We are filled with joy and pride! She will be joined by New York Times food columnist Nikita Richardson. $5 or book 

 P O E T R Y    T A B L E  TUE APR 9 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 

 B O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR APR 11 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 The Pepsi Cola Addict by June-Alison Gibbons and join us IN PERSON in April. Free, Books for sale 

 A U T H O R   E V E N T FRI APR 12 Join us for a very special evening as we celebrate Rosa Jackson's new cookbook Niçoise: Market-Inspired Cooking from France's Sunniest City. She is flying in and joining us from France, so come make your way to the shop for what is bound to be a transportive evening.  $5 or book 

 C O O K B O O K   C L U B THUR APR 18 IT IS SIMPLE: Cook your way through The New Ballymaloe Bread Book by Darina Allen in MARCH and drop by with a dish on THURSDAY APR 18th! 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 

 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. $625, 7 weeks 

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

 A N O T H E R   B O O K   C L U B MAR/APR 2024 We are partnering with writer Alicia Kennedy for her March/April 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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