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If you would like to give back this holiday season to causes you care about, consider gifts that support the local food economy and farms.
How about a copy of Cascade Harvest Coalition’s (CHC) cookbook, Fresh! Seasonal Recipes with local ingredients. At $20, this beautifully illustrated and smartly arranged book features seasonal and local recipes, courtesy of local farmers, chefs and food writers including Tom Douglas, Jeff Miller, and Seth Caswell. Local artist Lida Enche filled the 80-page layout with original woodcuts and illustrations of stunning beauty. Honey bees, salmon and ladybugs swim across the floral backdrop. All proceeds will benefit CHC, a non-profit organization dedicated to “re-localizing” the food system in Washington State. Order online. Shipping and handling included!
Consider a Community Support Agriculture (CSA) subscription that can provide someone you love with the benefits of farm fresh food throughout the year. Or give as a gift to your family and help with New Year’s resolutions for healthier eating! A CSA is a great way to support local farmers and the local economy. Download a directory of Puget Sound CSA’s (1.2MB PDF).
Book Larder is Seattle’s only culinary bookstore, featuring a unique and inspiring collection of cookbooks. The store is located in North Fremont, 4252 Fremont Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98103 (Google map). At the store, you’ll find a carefully chosen selection of new, vintage collectible, and imported cookbooks. They regularly host free events, including demos and tastings in their on-site kitchen, as well as author signings with some of the food world’s brightest minds and palates. There are also cooking classes (for a fee). Browse the store, join a discussion through Facebook or Twitter. Sign up for The Mailing List to get information on upcoming events and new titles.
At the core of our mental lives is a striking contradiction: Although our senses have evolved to give us a detailed perception of the world, as soon as that information hits our brains it becomes biased and distorted, usually without conscious effort. But why?
Join author Robert Trivers at Seattle Town Hall on Monday November 14, 2011 from 7:30-9:00 PM. A leading evolutionary theorist, Trivers argues that in order to deceive others, we must first deceive ourselves–and we are very good at denying the truth, even when it can have devastating effects. Rivers book, The Folly of Fools is available at University Bookstore, Elliott Bay Book Company and Seattle Public Library. Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store. Series sponsored by Microsoft. Series media sponsorship provided by KPLU. Tickets for Robert Trivers: The Truth about Self-Deception are $5 at brownpapertickets.com.
Town Hall is Seattle’s community culture center offering a broad program of music, humanities, civic discourse, and world culture events. Town Hall is located in the historic First Hill neighborhood, on the edge of downtown. Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 (Google map), is conveniently located at Eighth Avenue and Seneca Street. Town Hall’s location offers easy access to and from the I-5 freeway. There is a large pay lot immediately adjacent to Town Hall; enter the parking lot from Seventh Avenue, Spring or Seneca Streets.
The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair since 1987 has been the premier Pacific Northwest rare bok event. The International Book Fair features thousands of rare books, prints, maps, and photographs for sale. The fair is held at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, located on the north side of Seattle Center on Mercer St just east of 3rd Ave N (Google map). Tickets are $5.00 at the door and are good both days; under 12 admitted free.
2011 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
- Saturday October 8th – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sunday October 9th – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Family-friendly Northwest Bookfest 2011 in Kirkland features over fifty author panels, hundreds of authors, writing and publishing workshops, family programs and more! The book fair runs October 1 and 2, 2011 from 10am – 6pm. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Avenue, Kirkland, WA 98033 (Google map). Located in Peter Kirk Park in downtown Kirkland, adjacent to the Kirkland Senior Center and Park Place.
The event is free, with a suggested donation of $5 per person or $10 per family.
Northwest Bookfest 2011 Highlights
- Over 150 exhibitors plus a dozen food vendors will be on hand.
- Kirkland wine shops are hosting a progressive wine party on Saturday evening. Wine and Words will have a guest celebrity author in each shop to visit with patrons.
- The youngest fair-goers will delight in an appearance by Caspar Baby Pants, puppetry, live music, and world-class storytelling in several languages.
- The Kirkland Teen Center (map/directions, KTUB on facebook) will be rockin’ with miscellaneous games presented by Microsoft, more music, and a special appearance on Sunday by the Smart Chicks, a group of YA authors on national tour.
- Kirkland’s Park Place Books will be the anchor bookstore supplying the books of celebrity authors/exhibitors in attendance for this giant book-signing event. With Christmas right around the corner, this will no doubt be one of the most popular features of Northwest BookFest.
Baking is special, as you are probably well aware. It’s more exacting than regular cooking. Home bakers all know, it can be, well, just a bit nerve-wracking.
That’s why the America’s Test Kitchen team of test cooks and editors set out to publish a foolproof and definitive baking primer: Baking Illustrated. Their goal is to arm you with the information and skills (not to mention recipes) you need to produce hundreds of baking favorites; to pull back the curtain on this seemingly complex world and give you the answers to all your baking questions and obstacles.
Take advantage of this opportunity to purchase Baking Illustrated at 50% off the cover price, and discover why the Seattle Times hails it as “Worth its weight in gold!”
Get free online books (and a free electronic reader if you need it) 24/7 from the public library as well as online bookstores.
Join the conversation with Readers to Eaters at the 2nd Food & Community Series. Author Jeremy Smith will speak on his book, Growing a Garden City, about how a diverse group of people in Missoula, Montana, created an Agriculturally Supported Community by growing food together. Following the presentation is l discussion on building a food based community through Seattle Parks.
- This event is FREE.
- Where: Rainier Community Center, 4600 38th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118 (Google Map).
- When: Thursday, June 2, 2011 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Author Jeff Benedict will speak on his newly published book, POISONED: THE TRUE STORY OF THE DEADLY E. COLI OUTBREAK THAT CHANGED THE WAY AMERICANS EAT, followed by a community discussion on food safety with attorney Bill Marler from MarlerClark, farmer Linda Neunzig from Ninety Farms, and chef Tamara Murphy.
In his book, Benedict tells story of the 1993 disaster that killed three children and sickened 450 from eating at Jack in the Box in Seattle. The story focuses on Bill Marler, the Bainbridge Island attorney who won the largest class action settlement in Washington state history. Part Fast Food Nation and part A Civil Action, Posioned is a revealing look at our food production system and how we need to take a closer look at food safety.
This event is sponsored by Readers to Eaters and co-sponsored by Cascade Harvest Coalition, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Edible Seattle magazine, and Slow Food Seattle.
Friends of The Seattle Public Library Book Sale will be held at Warren G. Magnuson Park Saturday, Hangar Building 30, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 (Google map). Hours for the sale are Saturday, April 16th: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 17th: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Paperback and hardback books will sell for $1. There will be a section of “better books” priced separately.
More than 250,000 books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, videos, sheet music, art prints and posters are among the items up for sale to the public at bargain prices. Items for the sale are donated by private individuals, book stores, and the Library. Proceeds benefit The Seattle Public Library.
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