Book Group

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,...

The Slow Food Russian River Book Group will be discussing the book The Vegetarian – A Novel (London ; New York : Hogarth, 2014) by Han Kang on Thursday, April 6, 2016. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. Originally published: October 30, 2007. To RSVP email the Book Group at sfrrbookgroup@gmail.com.  The Book Group...

For this (sixth) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 7, Required Reading (pp. 239 – 266). The chapter starts: “Row after row of The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook in one of Cody's display windows in September 1982...

For this (seventh) Piccolo we’re reading M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, by Joan Reardon, Chapter 8, Golden State (pp. 267-288). The chapter starts: “The seeds of the culinary ferment that distinguishes California today were sown during the years that spanned the founding of...

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Prelude, Chapters 1-10, (pp. xi-55). The Prelude starts: “I could embellish the story and write that I was just pulling a par of crusty French baguettes out of the oven the fall afternoon of the...

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 11-23, (pp. 56-137). Chapter 11 starts: “I was a decade ahead of America's sensuality explosion in the fifties and leaped into the foodie vanguard in the sixties. I didn't know much, but I already...

For this Piccolo we’re reading Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess, by Gael Greene, Acknowledgements, Chapters 24-32, (pp. 138-201). Chapter 24 starts: “Press junkets and free meals were strictly forbidden to New York magazine citics and contributing editors. But there was not way I could refuse … " Gael Green's...