Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2011 Event Descriptions

Eat Your Words

12:00pm Boston Public Library Washington Room 700 Boylston Street

This session offers up some deliciously different perspectives on food, cooking, and culture. Joan Nathan's latest, Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous, discovers Jewish cooking in France; Lisa Abend tells the behind-the-scenes story of famed Spanish restaurant elBulli in The Sorcerer's Apprentices; Anka Muhlstein reveals how Honore Balzac used food to describe class and character in Balzac's Omelette; while Yankee Magazine food editor Amy Traverso lends an American flavor with The Apple Lover's Cookbook. Hosted by Boston Magazine executive editor Donna Garlough. Sponsored by Boston Magazine.