Cookie Stagman and Arlene Michlin Bronstein

Saturday, October 17

1 pm at The Book Stall

 

 

Glencoe native Cookie Stagman is back with a brand-new book, Cookie Stagman's Beautiful Buffets II, written with Arlene Michlin Bronstein. This new edition comes 25 years after the first Beautiful Buffets was published -- a "local" favorite that made it onto the national shelves of Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many other large stores. Now she and her partner Bronstein are out with a new edition with quick and easy recipes, suitable for cooks of all types and levels of experience. 

Ina Pinkney

INA PINKNEY

Saturday December 6

12 noon at The Book Stall

 

Popular Chicago restaurateur, businesswoman and TV personality Ina Pinkney (the "Breakfast Queen") signs her cookbook, Taste Memories: Recipes for Life and Breakfast, and recalls memories from her long career and her West Loop restaurant, INA's, which closed at the end of 2013.

Click here to reach Ina's website.

Calling all cooks!

Chicago's great Gale Gand will be at the Woman's Athletic Club on November 5 with her Gale Gand's Lunch!, already a hit with cooks who agree with her that "Lunch is the new dinner."

 

And on November 11, we're delighted to be having two events with Fabio Viviani, whose new cookbook, Fabio's American Home Kitchen, features popular American dishes with an Italian accent. 

 

Next Tuesday, October 28, is the release day for Ina Garten's latest, Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. Ina won't be visiting us, but her new book is certainly worth a trip into the store anyway. The title says it all: It's full of do-ahead tips and strategies and recipes for dishes that taste just as good, or even better, when they're made in advance. 

Leah Eskin at Glencoe Public Library

LEAH ESKIN

       Wednesday, April 23

                     7:30 pm, Glencoe Public Library, 320 Park Ave. in Glencoe

Meet Chicago Tribune food writer Leah Eskin, author of the paper's "Home on the Range" column, and hear her talk about her book Slices of Life: A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum. It includes more than 200 recipes from her Sunday column and includes a generous helping of life stories that have happened along the way.

 

Open to the public. No reservations necessary.

Making the Most of Summer's Bounty...

Making the Most of Summer's Bounty...

We're reaching that glorious time of the late summer when produce from the garden and local farmers' markets is at its peak.  Finding new ways to make good use of summer's bounty can be as easy as a trip to The Book Stall. A quick tour of our cookbook section by staffers Nancy Randall and Kathy Riley yielded these appetizing new titles:

Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer's Market, with 88 Recipes by Tama Matsuoka Wong with Eddy Leroux, with a foreword by Daniel Boulud. A field guide by for cooking enthusiasts by the forager for Daniel Boulud's flagship restaurant and its chef de cuisine.

The Old Farmer's Almanac Garden-Fresh Cookbook. Words of wisdom for growing, harvesting, preparing, and storing vegetables, fruit, and herbs as well as choosing the very best ingredients from the marketplace.

Farmers' Markets of the Heartland by Janine MacLachlan. A tour of seasonal markets and farm stands throughout the Midwest and a sampling of local flavors from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard by Nigel Slater. From Britain's foremost food writer, a gorgeous new volume dedicated to fruit. It's equal parts cookbook, primer on produce and gardening, and affectionate ode to the inspiration behind the book -- Slater's 40-foot backyard garden in London.  

Plenty: Good, Uncomplicated Food for the Sustainable Kitchen by Diana Henry. A revival of the lost art of home economics: making the most of what we have without depleting bank accounts and the planet's resources. 

The Farm: Rustic Recipes for a Year of Incredible Food by Ian Knauer. Fresh, modern spins on classics that help you make the most of your market or garden.

The Pickled Pantry: From Apples to Zucchini, 150 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, Chutneys and More by Andrea Chesman. Fresh, contemporary, low-fuss recipes for pickling everything from apples to zucchini. 

  

All of these delicious books and more are available at the store or by
calling us at 847-446-8880. We can even giftwrap and mail for you.