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  Invest in 22 weeks of produce bliss starting in early-mid June! Sign up by May 1 (or else, etc.)  CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture is a direct partnership between the farm and its consumers. Prepayment is everything. Each weekly share contains 7-10 items harvested at the peak of freshness. One share contains roughly the amount to last a week for a non-vegetarian family of 2.  Click here for examples of what is included in weekly shares.  Read about their upstate NY farm that uses 'high tunnels' and other Egyptian farming techniques here in the NY Times. Watch the video at the end of this list!

No. 2 →  This is a book about bread: how to make it and how to eat it at every stage of its life cycle—from the James Beard Award-nominated owner of cult-favorite bakery Bread & Salt in Jersey City. HAVE YOU BEEN?  We are so friggin excited to have our friends Rick Easton and Melissa McCart to the shop on Tuesday -- the day of their book release! This event is going to sell out, so grab your ticket here.

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  Claire Ptak, chef and owner of London's beloved Violet Bakery, is coming to the shop the next night in celebration of her delightful new book Love is a Pink Cake. She will be joined by NY Times style editor Stella Bugbee. Tickets here!

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  Astrological Farecasts (our free community monthly meditation with Vanessa Hardy) has been postponed to May 6th! Everyone join us in upping our Vitamin C, si?

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  We will be serving sandwiches on a regular basis through April. Then, some things will change. Thank you for your consumption and praise throughout the years.  

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  The grocery is in the bookstore. The bookstore is in the former Barber Shop. The cafe is in the OG Archestratus Friday through Sunday. The menu is changing. The menu is staying the same. A limited cafe is in the bookstore (which is also the grocery) Monday through Thursday. Books and Foods are here everyday. Rainbow Cookies are everyday. Arancine are Friday through Sunday. Happy Hour is Friday through Sunday 4 to 6p. We are here everyday. We are. Wheeeee!

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  Are you looking to rent kitchen space, have a pop-up, throw a bake sale, a private luncheon, a private event, a wedding, a Tupperware party, or what have you? Email [email protected] for more info about renting our kitchen or working with us for an event.  

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 → Eleven Madison Park visits Norwich Meadows Farm...CSA sign-ups end Monday!

the full calendar of our upcoming and current events

We're excited to see you :)

  TUES MAY 2 / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we welcome our friends Rick Easton and Melissa McCart to the shop! They wrote a wonderful new book on bread, but also all of our favorite things to eat. Come help us celebrate the heck outta them!

  WED MAY 3 / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we welcome author and pastry chef Claire Ptak to the shop! SAVE THE DATE and preorder a copy of LOVE IS A PINK CAKE as admission to the event. Additional non-book entry tickets are also available. Expect snacks, a moderated conversation, a Q + A, and signing. Beer and wine for sale.

  *Date Change / SAT MAY 6 / C O M M U N I T Y  Vanessa will give a 15 to 20 minute talk about the connection between food and the present astrology. What ingredients can we call in and mangia during this powerful Taurus season? She will then, holding all this food wisdom in mind, lead a short 20ish-minute meditation. Free!

  TUE MAY 9 /  z o o m   e v e n t  Join us as we welcome author Dr. Alex D. Ketchum in conversation with writer Alicia Kennedy for this virtual event to discuss Alex's new book INGREDIENTS FOR REVOLUTION: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses.

  FRI MAY 12  / 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.

  WED MAY 17 / C O M M U N I T Y    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 Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki and join us IN PERSON in May.

 THUR MAY 18  / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we celebrate longtime Kitchn editor and recent 'Best Cookbooks of Spring' author Sheela Prakash and her delicious, accessible new book Salad Seasons: Vegetable-Forward Dishes All Year. Expect snacks, a moderated conversation with the wonderful cookie expert, fundraiser, and author JESSE SZEWCZYK, a Q + A, and signing.

  SAT MAY 20 / p o p  u p     e v e n t  Join us as we welcome back Sicilian sweets expert, legendary food stylist, relentless recipe developer, hotshot creative director, and total visionary Victoria Granof. We are celebrating the release of her gorgeous new dolci-inspired puzzle, TRIUMPH OF GLUTTONY from Piecework Puzzles with, of course, a PASTICCERIA POP-UP all made by Victoria herself.

 FRI MAY 26 / C L A S S   Learn to prepare a full seasonal Sicilian meal with cook/owner of Archestratus Paige Lipari. Come ready to cook a bunch of dishes, stay long enough to mangia, and leave with some delicious recipes in hand.

  SAT MAY 27 / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we welcome back to the shop (all the way from Japan) one of our favorite cookbook authors and all around incredible human Nancy Singleton Hachisu!  We are honored to be celebrating JAPAN: The Vegetarian Cookbook. 

  THUR JUN 1 / C O M M U N I T Y  Cook your way through California Soul by Tanya Holland during MAY and drop by with a dish on THUR JUN 1 — all are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! It gives us a monthly dose of hope for the universe!

  WED JUN 7 / a u t h o r  e v e n t  Join us as we welcome back London-based Pakistani writer, cookbook author, and BBC broadcaster Sumayya Usmani to celebrate her memoir ANDAZA: A Memoir of Food, Flavour and Freedom in the Pakistani Kitchen.

 DATE TBD /  A U T H O R    E V E N T  (*rescheduling soon. Shifted for family emergency) Join us as we welcome an inspiring and sustainable chef, entrepreneur, and now cookbook author Homa Dashtaki to the shop!  The White Moustache Yogurt company founder is here to celebrate her elegant, personal new cookbook Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life. 

OCT 6 /   I N   P E R S O N   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.

  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.

THERE ARE SO MANY MORE EVENTS TO COME THIS SPRING. PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A COMMUNITY GROUP or HAVING AN EVENT.

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