Gourmet Cookbook Ordered!
Highlights:
Gourment Cookbook
Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine was supposed to be at Sur La Table in Berkeley last night to promote the new 1200 recipe tome The Gourmet Cookbook - recipes from 60 years of Gourmet magazine. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and John Willoughby, executive editor, filled in. This was a paid event to support Women Chef's and was a delightful evening.
There were perhaps 60 women at the event and as we filtered in we moved from station to station tasting some food and wine brought in from some Bay Area restaurants. Kermit Lynch donated some wine, Boulevard prepared bite size shrimp filled pastry, there was canapes of white bean puree on toasted baguette some topped with smoked salmon others with red peppers, a station serving soupe au pistou from Cinq restaurant and little mini cupcakes from Citizen Cake. John Willoughby was interviewed by Kim Severson, a food writer from the San Francisco Chronicle, who is in the process of moving to the NY Times! The conversation was informal and informative - Kim has a great sense of humor and ease with the audience. John was charming and fun as he talked about the 3 year process of putting the cookbook together, of the twice daily tastings, of choosing just 12 chocolate cakes down from 50 for the book, of the less than perfect yellow type for recipe titles. The audience asked questions about representing different ethnic foods, about the Thanksgiving issue and about "the lobster article".
I was glad to be a part of the event, and while I didn't buy the book at Sur La Table, I went home and ordered it from Amazon immediately.
Gourment Cookbook
Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine was supposed to be at Sur La Table in Berkeley last night to promote the new 1200 recipe tome The Gourmet Cookbook - recipes from 60 years of Gourmet magazine. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and John Willoughby, executive editor, filled in. This was a paid event to support Women Chef's and was a delightful evening.
There were perhaps 60 women at the event and as we filtered in we moved from station to station tasting some food and wine brought in from some Bay Area restaurants. Kermit Lynch donated some wine, Boulevard prepared bite size shrimp filled pastry, there was canapes of white bean puree on toasted baguette some topped with smoked salmon others with red peppers, a station serving soupe au pistou from Cinq restaurant and little mini cupcakes from Citizen Cake. John Willoughby was interviewed by Kim Severson, a food writer from the San Francisco Chronicle, who is in the process of moving to the NY Times! The conversation was informal and informative - Kim has a great sense of humor and ease with the audience. John was charming and fun as he talked about the 3 year process of putting the cookbook together, of the twice daily tastings, of choosing just 12 chocolate cakes down from 50 for the book, of the less than perfect yellow type for recipe titles. The audience asked questions about representing different ethnic foods, about the Thanksgiving issue and about "the lobster article".
I was glad to be a part of the event, and while I didn't buy the book at Sur La Table, I went home and ordered it from Amazon immediately.
posted by Karen at 1:37 PM
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