For this (first) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, up to page 66. Our Piccolo is a quick, short, Book Group meeting at a local coffee house on Mondays, 11am - noon. This time we're meeting at...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World (New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) by Joel K. Bourne Jr. on Thursday, February 2, 2017. To RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book...

For this (second) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 3, D*E*A*R F*R*I*E*N*D (pp. 69 - 110). The chapter starts "The story of how the salutations "Dear Mrs. Child" and "Dear Mrs. Fisher" changed to "Dear Julia"...

For this (third) Piccolo we're reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 4, In Julia's Kitchen (pp. 111 - 150). The chapter starts: "Kitchens* have not always been Julia Child's mise-en-scène. In fact her recollections of the one in the big,...