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Gaz Oakley presents Vegan Christmas

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR, United States

From Annie Bloom's Books's website: Annie Bloom's welcomes UK chef Gaz Oakley to present Vegan Christmas. This is a free, non-ticketed event! If you would like to order a copy to pick up at the event, you can do so here! Vegans and vegetarians everywhere will have the best holiday period ever with Gaz Oakley's fantastic alternatives to the traditional turkey and trimmings. Gaz is an expert in bold flavors and textures, so everyone can enjoy a spectacular centerpiece and amazing food throughout the festive season. Gaz talks you through the menus and the planning, from Christmas morning breakfast like Sweet Potato Waffles and Tofu Benedict, through to a show-stopping lunch with the likes of Ultimate Christmas Wellington, "Turkey" Roast and Festive Nut Roast Wreath…

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Cheese Beer Wine Cider: A Field Guide to 75 Perfect Pairings

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Cheese and wine are a classic combination, but many cheeses taste even better with beer or cider. Steve Jones, proprietor of the Portland-based Cheese Bar and Chizu, has been successfully matching cheeses with alcoholic beverages for more than two decades. In Cheese Beer Wine Cider (Countryman), Jones and Adam Lindsley share their knowledge by introducing 75 different cheeses and pairing each with the beverage that brings out the best in both.

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Marisa McClellan in Conversation With Martha Holmberg

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Marisa McClellan, author of Food in Jars, wants everyone to know that a pantry full of homemade jams, jellies, salsas, and pickles can do a whole lot more than accompany toast. They can add bold bursts of flavor to your home cooking! In her fourth book, The Food in Jars Kitchen (Running Press), she provides 140 recipes for incorporating preserves into everyday dishes. McClellan will be joined in conversation by Martha Holmberg, author of Modern Sauces and coauthor of Six Seasons.

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Kami McBride Book Signing

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

The Herbal Kitchen with Kami McBride Is your kitchen ‘herb-ready’? Having the antimicrobial, carminative and antioxidant power of your herbs working for you at maximum capacity is what is needed now. Setting up an effective herbal kitchen is the foundation for making sure you get the daily dose of herbs you need if you really want a pro-active herbal health care plan in place for your family. The goal of your herbal kitchen is to feel inspired to get lots of herbs and spices into your meals every day. With 30 years’ experience helping families feel confident in their home herbalism skills, Kami has a few tricks up her sleeve, so you can sort through the herbal information overwhelm and fortify the therapeutic and nutrient…

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Kitchen Table Launch Party

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the launch part of the second issue of Kitchen Table, a new print and digital publication that connects adventurous souls, curious cooks, and enthusiastic eaters with talented writers, artists, cartoonists, and photographers who explore not only the how-to's of cooking, but the whys of eating.

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Kids’ Storytime with The Tiny Chef and Fwens

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Tiny Chef, a small herbivore with an enormous heart, goes on a quest to find his missing recipe book in The Tiny Chef and da Mishing Weshipee Blook (Razorbill), an irresistible debut picture book from the creators of @TheTinyChefShow. The Tiny Chef is at home in his kitchen on a beautiful day, but not all is well inside the Chef’s stump. He’s misplaced his favorite recipe book — the one he uses to cook all of his best dishes, like his famous stew, which he always makes on the first day of fall, and that day is here! What is the Chef to do! This kids’ storytime event will feature The Tiny Chef’s entourage of Human helpers, Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid, and Ozlem “Ozi”…

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Tender Table Recipe Swap

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Bored of your own cooking? Overwhelmed by the idea of looking up new recipes? I know I am! Join Tender Table at a virtual recipe swap! We'll enjoy some tea, listen to chill music, write recipe cards together and send them to each other in the mail. Sign up to receive a recipe swap kit, including Tender Table-branded recipe cards and more! RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/tt-recipe-swap This event is reserved for women, femmes, trans/nonbinary folks who are BIPOC.

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Cookbook Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

BUY JUBILEE HERE We will be ordering books as orders come in and it shouldn't be more than a few days before you receive notification that your book has arrived. Have you ever browsed through a new cookbook and thought how nice it would be to talk to other people who had tried some of those recipes? Now you can. Join us for the Fall gathering of the Cookbook Club on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 7:00 PM. Books Around the Corner owner Stephanie Rose will lead the discussion. Participants will choose a recipe from the cookbook and "share" it via from their homes. We'll eat a delicious meal over Zoom, discuss the recipes we made, and what we liked or didn't like about them. We…

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Michelle Tam in Conversation With Gregory Gourdet

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Michelle Tam knows that the healthiest meal is the one you make yourself, so she’s all about getting you off your butts and into the kitchen. Whether you’re cooking for yourself, whipping up a family dinner, or preparing a special-occasion feast, Nom Nom Paleo: Let’s Go! (Andrews McMeel) — co-written with Henry Fong — will inspire you with deliciously nourishing meals. Weeknight suppers should be healthy and flavor-packed but also fast and simple. Weekends and celebrations, on the other hand, are the perfect excuse to craft elevated (but easy!) crowd-pleasers. Nom Nom Paleo: Let’s Go! offers crazy-delicious recipes for all occasions, and every single one is free of grains, gluten, dairy, and refined sugar. Better yet? No one in your family will notice what’s missing!…

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Food Is a Weapon: Ghetto Gastro with Gregory Gourdet

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker of Bronx-based culinary collective Ghetto Gastro, and authors of the new book Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen, for a conversation with acclaimed Portland-based chef Gregory Gourdet. Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavor recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that celebrate Black food and Black culture, and inspire larger conversations about race, history, food inequality, and how eating well can be a pathway to personal freedom and self-empowerment. “Black Power Kitchen is as much a cooking manual as it is a manifesto of Ghetto Gastro’s decade-long mission: Seeing eating as simultaneously a form of survival and a source of luxury, Black Power Kitchen…

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