Quail Ridge Books & Music hosts an author by the name of Daniel Handler this week, here to talk about his new book, 'Why We Broke Up.'
The name may not ring many bells at first - until research reveals that he also writes under the name of Lemony Snicket, scribe of the popular Series of Unfortunate Events novels.
I just got the details on Food Network star Paula Deen's book signing in Raleigh on Oct. 14 at Quail Ridge Books. The bookstore is located on Wade Ave, near Whole Foods.
The event will start at 6 p.m. and last for 2 hours. She is signing copies of her new book, "Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible," which goes on sale Oct. 11 for $26.99.
Per usual with these big-name food celebrities, there is a list of rules:
If you missed the recent fighting words between Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen, go HERE and HERE to read their back and forth.
Save the date: Food Network star Paula Deen will be signing books at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books & Music at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14.
No details yet on how to get tickets for the 2-hour book signing. Presumably, you will have to buy a copy of her new book, "Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible" at the store to be able to get in line.
I'll share more details as they become available.
If given only one chance to highlight a favorite cookbook from the last several years, it would be the work of Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito.
The pair own a hip bakery and coffeehouse in Brooklyn called Baked, which also has a location in Charleston, S.C. Their first cookbook, “Baked: New Frontiers in Baking,” seduced me with its fanciful photos and recipes that take brownies, rice krispy treats and chocolate pie to new levels. Several of the recipes are now a permanent part of my baking repertoire.
Lewis and Poliafito, who both left corporate jobs to pursue their coffee and baked goods dreams, are coming to the Triangle Oct. 20 and 21 to promote their latest book, “Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented.” I can’t wait to try making the Nutella scones, peanut butter banana cream pie and orange creamsicle tart in their latest book. I’m sure to have many happy Sunday afternoons of baking ahead.
I got a chance to speak to Lewis about the new book, what he learned from the first book and what to expect from them next.
Click READ MORE for the interview, details on their Triangle visit and a recipe for Nutella scones.
REMINDER: Television chef and cookbook author Sara Moulton is coming to the Triangle to promote her new book, "Everyday Family Dinners."
She has two book signings in the area in early May.
Elizabeth Wiegand, author of “The Outer Banks Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from North Carolina's Barrier Islands,” has a new book tackling the other side of the state.
Her book, “The New Blue Ridge Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from North Carolina’s Mountains to Virginia’s Highlands,” has just been released.
She has a bunch of local book signing events:
Elizabeth Wiegand, author of “The Outer Banks Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from North Carolina's Barrier Islands,” has a new book tackling the other side of the state.
Her book, “The New Blue Ridge Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from North Carolina’s Mountains to Virginia’s Highlands,” has just been released.
She will be signing her book 7:30 p.m. May 7 at Quail Ridge Books, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh.
Television chef and cookbook author Sara Moulton is coming to the Triangle to promote her new book, "Everyday Family Dinners."
She has two book signings in the area in early May.
Long ago and far away, print magazines were one of the primary ways to find out about new music. And in the pre-Internet days of the early 1980s, the twice-a-month arrival of the latest Rolling Stone was a major event. I would sit and devour every word of every issue, while scanning the writers' bylines and wondering who those people were. Like Parke Puterbaugh, a name that seemed impossibly exotic.
Years later, I moved here and discovered that Puterbaugh lived right down the road in Greensboro -- and that, in addition to being a record geek supreme, he was also a right nice guy. It's to his credit, I think, that he looks like he's trying to keep a straight face in the photo below. And now he's written the book he was born to do, "Phish: The Biography" (Da Capo, 318 pages, $25).
Phish has never gotten much critical respect, and I have to admit that their jam-band whimsy ain't really my ball o' wax. But Puterbaugh has always been a fan, going back to when he began covering Phish for Rolling Stone in the mid-'90s. He got plenty of behind-the-scenes access to report "Phish," and it shows in his even-handed treatment of the music as well as the band's virtues and foibles.
You can come talk to him about it directly tonight, when Puterbaugh does a reading at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books. It will be my honor to commence the evening with an introduction at 7:30. Promise I'll keep it brief, so come on out.
We depart briefly from the music beat to consider Byron Pitts, a TV reporter who routinely ventures into some of the most dangerous places and situations on earth. And one of the most dangerous was right here in America, when he covered the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"I thought Katrina exposed for some and reaffirmed for others issues of class and race in this country," Pitts said in a recent phone chat. "A lot of people are still struggling. Life can be just as dangerous and difficult for a poor black boy in Durham as for a poor white boy in Appalachia, and Katrina exposed that reality. It also exposed the limitations of how the federal government can respond to a disaster, especially in the first 72 hours -- which people in Eastern North Carolina already understand from all the hurricanes they've lived through. You really need to have a 72-hour plan. What are you going to do for food, power, electricity and security the first 72 hours? Do you have a plan for yourself and your family? You'd better."
Pitts speaks on Friday night at Quail Ridge in Raleigh. For more about his new book and quite inspiring back-story, see the interview in Thursday's paper.
