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...