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   HOLIDAY HOURS:  OPEN on  DEC 14 DEC 15 DEC 16 DEC 17 DEC 18 DEC 19 DEC 20 DEC 21 DEC 22 DEC 23  11 → 8p  + DEC 24  8 → 3p  Closed on DEC 25

WE TRULY CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR SUPPORT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.

No. 1  →  Friday at 5p: Comedian Jo Firestone and writer Josh Knapp are coming by to teach us how to play their new treasure of a game FRUITS :) Preorder a deck to hold a spot for you and your friends! Come by before your holiday party! Details here. Ages 8 + up!

No. 2  →

  GIFT IDEA: a signed and personalized copy of The Cook You Want to Be by Andy Baraghani. Preorder The Cook You Want To Be before December 20th and pick it up as soon as December 21st, or have us ship it out just in time for the holidays. Super duper Archestratus exclusivo.

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  GIFT IDEA: 2023 is the year we build back our bookshop library to its pre-pandemic glory days. We've had to make some difficult choices this year and it's not always been easy. Thank you for understanding. If you don't see a book you are looking for this holiday season on our website or in the shop, you can still support us on our Bookshop.org store.  

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  GIFT IDEA: TOMORROW DEC 14 is the LAST DAY to sign up for the Norwich Meadows Farm CSA. Brighten up your winter days with nourishing produce. Choose a small, medium or large share!

No. 5  →

  GIFT IDEA: This tote contains our most favorite things. The items we return to without ceasing. Bites that cannot be denied. UNDENIABLE BITES. Only to be shared with your most loved loved ones, and it all comes together in a beautiful Archie x Daniel Zender tote that transports, but also transports, capeesh?

No. 6  →

  GIFT IDEA: A DOLCI BOX. Available to pickup or ship now until the end of the year.

No. 7  →

  GIFT IDEA: Give the gift of a RAINBOW COOKIE CLASS with strange one and professional, Paige.

No. 8  →

  NOW HIRING: Looking for cooks and sandwich makers. Email a quick note and resume to [email protected]. We 100% desperately beg you to pass this along : ) : ) Grazie. 

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 → Jo Firestone on how to play the game! Join us on our new date of December 16th for Fruits.

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ART NOW ON VIEW / i n   F O O D S hu · mil · i · a · ting stutters an exasperated Gena Rowlands in the 1977 film Opening Night. The utterance seems to be caused by the producer attempting to close the curtain on her increasingly unhinged performance (the play she is acting in is currently in previews in New Haven). However, what she is really humiliated by is the fact that she has been forced to become publicly unhinged in order to find a way to inhabit the role of The Second Woman. Humiliation is what happens when you work things out in public.

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

New sculptural objets de art from Daniel Zender.

 THURSDAYS / S O C I A L   C L U B  Join us as we move through The Artist's Way chapter by chapter. It's a free community group every Thursday! **LAST MEETING IS THIS THURSDAY! 

  FRI DEC 16 / G A M E    N I G H T   Come celebrate FRUITS with comedian and game-makers Jo Firestone and Josh Knapp! Jo and Josh will be hanging around teaching us all the paths to victory, so bring your pals to play!

  WED JAN 18 / C L U B  Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novel, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss. Read through I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal and join us IN PERSON in January.

  WED JAN 25 / C O M M U N I T Y Cook your way through The Woks of Life by the Leung Family during DECEMBER and JANUARY and drop by with a dish on WED JAN 25 — all are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! It gives us a monthly dose of hope for the universe!

  SAT JAN 28 /  A U T H O R   E V E N T  SAVE THE DATE : ) "A modern, brashly flavorful guide to cooking Taiwanese-American food, from Brooklyn’s lauded Win Son, Win Son Bakery, and Cathy Erway, celebrated writer and expert on the cuisine."

  FEB 3 / GIFT IDEA /  C L A S S In 3 friggin' hours Paige will teach you how to make killer RAINBOW COOKIES! A hands-on, fun-filled experience that engages all the senses.

  2023 DATE TBD / a u t h o r  e v e n t Join us as we celebrate the new edition of SÉANCE with artist and author Shannon Taggart. Shannon will be joined in conversation by Archestratus owner Paige Lipari, along with some special guests and surprises. Possible spoonbending. Stay tuned in.

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.

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