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Know Your Power Foods!

Nothing makes me happier than a new cookbook, especially one with lots of pictures and little text! It's not that I don't enjoy reading, I just prefer letting the pictures inspire me. Sometimes it's nice not knowing exactly what goes into a recipe and improvising to create something all your own. 

Food for Thought Book Club - 7/29

 

Who: Locals interested in reading and sharing their views on all things food

What: Drinks, food, and fun discussions with other foodies like you and me

Where: Private residence*

When: Thursday, July 29 - 6:30pm

Why: Live vicariously through Bill Buford's adventures working in a first-class New York restaurant and repeated journeys to Italy to apprentice with the country's best chefs.

Cost: Club is Free! 

Book can be purchased at a 15% discount at Books Inc. (Chestnut St.) with the mention of this book club

 * More location details for participating book club  members

 

 Bill Buford

Food for Thought Book Club - 6/21

Who: Locals interested in reading and sharing their views on all things food

What: Drinks, food, and fun discussions with other foodies like you and me

Where: Private residence*

When: Monday, June 21 - 6:30pm

Why: Join the eccentric Novella Carpenter on her adventures farming in Oakland's city "ghetto"

Cost: Club is Free! 

Book can be purchased at a 20% discount at Books Inc. (Chestnut St.) with the mention of this book club

 * More location details for participating book club  members

Novella Carpenter at Ghost Town Farm 

Food for Thought Book Club - 4/28

 

Who: Locals interested in reading and sharing their views on all things food.

What: 2nd book club meeting

Where: Private residence, Nob Hill *

When: Wednesday, April 28th - 6:30pm

Why: Learn the story of Chez Panisse, Berkeley's famed restaurant, through the eyes of founder, proprietor, and sometime chef, Alice Waters.  

Cost: Club is Free! 

Book can be purchased at a 15% discount at Books Inc. (Chestnut St.) with the mention of this book club.

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse 

You can't tell the story of Chez Panisse, Berkeley's famed restaurant, without relating that of its diminutive founder, proprietor, and sometime chef, Alice Waters. This is what Thomas McNamee does most handily in his Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, a chronicle that begins with the seat-of-the-pants opening night of the "counterculture" venture in 1971, and ends 35 years later with Waters's restaurant an American institution.

*For more information, please email me at [email protected].

Food for Thought Book Club - 3/10

   

Who:  All locals interested in reading and sharing their views on all things food

What:  1st book club meeting

Where:  Arlequin Cafe in Hayes Valley

When: Wednesday, March 10th, 6:30p

Why: Learn more about "Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle of the World's Food System"

Cost: Club is Free! 

Book can be purchased here: http://tinyurl.com/cabsoy

Food for Thought Book Club!

So you live in the city of San Francisco, you love to cook, and best of all you love to eat!  Well here’s hoping you love to read and share your thoughts on all things food as well. With the sustainable movement under way and attention on the likes of Food Inc. and Michael Pollan, we’re hoping you’ll join us in a little Food for Thought.