March Events at Hollander’s
Hollander’s cooking classes and book & paper arts workshops schedules for March are listed below. Click on the link for each class for details.
Be sure to see our new Spring and Easter displays in both our stationery and kitchen stores.
COOKING CLASSES IN MARCH
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 — Indian Cuisine with Lakshmi Narayanan. SUNDAY, MARCH 7 — German Soft Pretzels with John Savanna. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10 — French Pastry Dough with Brigette. SUNDAY, MARCH 14 — St. Paddy’s Day Madness with Rita Conray-Martin.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 — Salt & Pepper Tasting with Nancy Jenkins. SUNDAY, MARCH 21 — Chocolate Cake with Praline Crunch Buttercream with Heather Anne Leavitt.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 — Quesdaillas Variations with Marge Biancke. SUNDAY, MARCH 28 — Wine and Food Pairings with John Jonna. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 — Asparagus with Proscuitto & Spinach Pie with Francesca Girarraffa.
BOOK & PAPER ARTS WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY, MARCH 7 – Four Books For Beginners with Vicki Engling. SATURDAY, MARCH 13 and SUNDAY, MARCH 14 — Letterpress Printing Intensive with Phil Driscoll. SATURDAY, MARCH 20 — Introduction to Paper Making with Karen O’Neal. SATURDAY, MARCH 20 and SUNDAY, MARCH 21 — The Theater Book with Barbara Brown. TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 and 24 — Collage Techniques: Beginning and Continuing with Karen Izenberg. SATURDAY, MARCH 27 — Advanced Paper Engineering – The Exploding Page! with Matt Shlian. SATURDAY, MARCH 27 — Continuing Paper Making with Karen O’Neal. SUNDAY, MARCH 28 — Two Exposed Spine Sewings for Beginners with Vicki Engling.
Add comment February 25, 2010
February Events at Hollander’s
This month features two cooking classes with Valentine’s Day themes. The first is a Valentine’s Day Dinner with Rita Conray-Martin on Sunday, February 7. Rita is the owner of The Sage Dish and passionately supports the use of local and organic ingredients. The other is Valentine Baguette with John Savanna on Sunday, February 14. John is the owner of Millpond Bread in Chelsea and specializes in using stone-ground flour and all organic ingredients.
Other Cooking Classes this month include French Crepes, Mediterranean Small Plates, Biscuits Three Ways, Two Soups: Calamari and Smoked pancetta Potato, Asian Style Favorites, and Chicken Tagine. Click on the links for details and to register.
In the Book & Paper Arts we are offering classes this month in Wood Engraving, Advanced Home Book Repair, Multiple Panel Screen, Mixed Media, Washi Egg Ornaments, Paper Sculpture, and such book structures as Gallery and Star Books, Flag Book, and Found Book – Concertina Journal. Click on the links for details and to register.
Add comment February 1, 2010
The New Year at Hollander’s
Welcome to Hollander's!
Last week we returned from a trade show in Atlanta where we looked for new and unique products. As we await the arrival of our new product lines, we already have new store displays in place that feature Valentine’s Day cards for kid’s and adults, gift wrap, and journals in our stationery store. Upstairs, in our Kitchen and Home store, we have many great gifts from pink champagne glasses to heart-shaped cookie cutters and ramekins.
We have also put together two full sets of classes for the new year. One is our traditional Book and Paper Arts Workshop Schedule, which is now in its 15th year, while the other is an offering of over 30 new Cooking Classes.
Our Book and Paper Arts workshops begin next weekend with a class in Basic Home Book Repair. The following weekend is a class in Box Making, which focuses on making several structures including the two that are featured in our box making book that was published last year. For those who would like to try their hand at an intriguing book arts structure, check out Jean Buescher’s Flax Book with Woven Tapes at the end of the month.
Our January Cooking Classes also begin next week. At these fast paced, one hour sessions this month, you can learn how to prepare Chicken Cordon Bleu, an International Brunch, Bolognese and Vodka Pasta Sauces, and two South American dishes called Chupe and Arepas. You can also check our website for details of these and future classes.
With all that is new at Hollander’s right now, we hope you get a chance to come in and visit us soon. We plan to continue to send out regular updates of happenings at Hollander’s.
Tom and Cindy
1 comment January 16, 2010
Make a Book! Learn to Cook!
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- Learn to Cook!
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- Make A Book!
Between the two schedules we have over 80 classes to choose from. We hope you get a chance to join us next term.
1 comment December 12, 2009
Upcoming Events/Schedules at Hollander’s
Holiday Table Setting
Also, Midnight Madness is on Friday, December 4, from 6:00 to Midnight, and once again we will be offering 10% off on all purchases made that evening.
In addition, we are putting together our teaching schedules for for both Hollander’s Book and Paper Arts workshops as well as our Kitchen’s cooking classes. The Book and Paper Arts schedule of workshops will be available online on December 1 and the Cooking Class schedule we hope to have online Dec 10.
There are still openings in both sets of classes for the remainder of November and into December. You can check those out on our website at www.hollanders.com.
Hope to see you soon!
1 comment November 10, 2009
New York Style Pizza
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- New York Style Pizza
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- Brian Steinberg
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- Using a Pizza Peel
Dorothy Hernandez of the Ann Arbor Food Examiner wrote a nice article about Brian Steinberg’s recent New York Style Pizza class at Hollander’s. http://www.examiner.com/x-21894-Ann-Arbor-Food-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Recipe-Make-New-York-style-pizza-at-home
Also, here is a link to Brian’s blog and all the detail you need for making your own New York Style Pizza. http://lastoneeating.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/new-york-style-pizza-class/
1 comment October 9, 2009
Beyond Words: A Celebration of Book Arts
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- Untitled by Ben Reynaert
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- Book of Empires by Alvey Jones
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- Rice Fields by Julia Miller
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- Tunnel Book by Barbara Brown
At the WSG Gallery on Main Street, Barbara Brown has curated another great Book Arts Exhibit featuring the works of many local book artists. Sometimes these works are referred to as Artists’ books, which are intended art pieces, often bearing little resemblence to books with which we are familiar with.
Barbara writes, ” Book art (book-inspired art) has surged in the last few years. For artists, there is excitement and magic to be found in the exploration of book structures – possibly in the traditional sense, but often in an entirely redefined form. Indeed, it is famously difficult to get book artists themselves to reach agreement as to what an artist’s book should or should not be. In this show we might be surprised at combinations of media which have been incorporated by the participating artists in creating these mysterious little worlds.
Here we will find that words and images fly in the air, poise on walls, and alight in structures – perhaps causing the viewer to question the idea of “book”. “
The exhibition is called: Beyond Words: A Celebration of Book Arts and runs from September 15 – October 25. A reception to meet the artist is on Friday, October 2, 7p.m.- 10 p.m. with a gallery book artist panel, Sunday, October 4, 2:00 p.m.
Participating artists are: Char Bacon, Ruth Bardenstein, Mona Diane Benton, Barbara Brown, Catherine Hightower, Alvey Jones, J. Wayne Jones, Julia Miller, Ben Reynaert, Sally Rose, Susan Skarsgard, Pati Scobey, Graceann Warn, Elaine Wilson and Howard White.
Visit the website: www.wsg-art.com
Visit WSG’s blog: http://wsgartgallery.blogspot.com
Regular gallery hours are: Tues.- Thurs. 12-6, Fri. and Sat. 12-10, Sun. 12-5
For more information call the WSG Gallery: 734-761-2287
1 comment September 28, 2009
Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes
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- Thais Anne Peterson in Hollander’s Kitchen
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- Tomato Shortcakes
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- Goat Cheese & Tomato Tarts
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- Maccheroni all’ Ubriaca (Drunkard’s Macaroni)
On Wednesday, September 16, we had our first cooking class in Hollander’s new Kitchen Store. Thais Anne Peterson taught the class how to make the most of the late summer tomato harvest with these three delicious dishes: Goat Cheese & Tomato Tarts – an elegant tart that can go from appetizer to brunch to supper in a flash; Tomato Shortcakes – a twist on the bruschetta with a unique savory topping; and Maccheroni all’ Ubriaca (Drunkard’s Macaroni) – a hearty pasta dish brimming with tomatoes and sausage. (Actually, Thais ran short on tomatoes for this last one, and so it wasn’t quite brimming, but we all got the idea and it was still very tasty!)
For Cindy and me, it was the first time we had ever taken a cooking class, although we have watched them on TV. The television shows seem okay, but we never get too excited over them. Maybe, in that’s because we don’t get to sample what is being made immediately afterwards. Well, all that has changed after sitting in on Thais’s class. It was one of the greatest lunch hours ever spent. Not only was it entertaining to hear a lot of cool tidbits of cooking infomation, but it was fun seeing the entire process, live and in a relaxed atmosphere. The best part was definitely the samples that came our way about every 20 minutes. They were absolutely delicious. Basically we had a great three course meal.
By the way, class fees are very reasonable, generally about $13, and that includes a live chef, tasty samples, recipes, and a Hollander’s 10% off coupon.
We hope you can join us for some of our upcoming classes – a Tailgate Brunch with Marge Biancke on Wednesday and NY Style Pizza with Brian Steinberg next Sunday. And then lots more throughout the fall.
Add comment September 20, 2009
Edible Book Contest
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- The People’s Choice
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- Best Pun Intended
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- Most Book-Like
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- Best In Show
The Kerrytown BookFest was a huge success on Sunday. This year’s theme was culinary and one of the highlights was an edible book contest. As every year, for the past seven, the event included panel discussions, presentations, demonstrations, kid’s activites, storytelling, workshops, booksellers, and much more. It was a near perfect day, weather-wise, and the crowds were big and appreciative, especially to hear road foodie authors, Jane and Michael Stern and mystery author, Jeffery Deavers. The estimated attendance for the event was 4,500.
The edible book contest was held all day in Hollander’s downstairs workshop space. There were 17 entries which were judged for Best Pun Intended, Most Book-Like, Best in Show and The People’s Choice. The judges were Jane and Michael Stern, Don Etherington, fine binder and last year’s honorary co-chair, and Chef Ellen Moloney from the Food Gatherers. The People’s Choice Award was voted on by the viewing public all day long.
And the winners were . . .
Best Pun: Huckleberry Fin by Debbie Taylor
Most Book-Like: A Salad Book of Days by Lynn Yates
Best in Show: The Stinging Nettle by Teri Williams
People’s Choice: The Edible Alphabet by Karen O’Neal
Honorable Mention: S’Mores by Isabella Yates – Age 6!
It was the most successful BookFest yet and we want to say thank you to all those who came and supported it. Thank you especially to the many volunteers, demonstrators, presenters, donors, and others who made this another great year.
2 comments September 14, 2009
Kerrytown BookFest Program
KERRYTOWN BOOKFEST 2009 PROGRAM
Sunday, September 13 from 11:00 to 5:00
Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market
MAIN TENT
11:00 COMMUNITY BOOK AWARD PRESENTATION to Jan Longone, Curator of American Culinary History at the Clements Library, presented by Honorary Chair Ari Weinzweig, co-owner of Zingerman’s
12:00 LOCAL FOODS IN THE WORLD AND GLOBAL FOODS IN MICHIGAN – Ari Weinzweig (Kerrytown BookFest Honorary Chair) and Jane and Michael Stern (Roadfood and NPR’s “The Splendid Table”); Moderator Jan Longone, KBF Community Book Award Recipient
1:00 MICHIVORE: CHERRIES, FISH & JIFFY MIX – Cynthia Furlong Reynolds, T. R. Durham, Patty LaNoue Sterns, Tom Bloomer (coined the term “Michivore”); Moderator Steve Klein
2:00 MYSTERIES TO COOK BY – Authors including cooking and/or catering in their mysteries Julie Hyzy, JoAnna Carl, Miranda Bliss; Moderator Angelee Kovach
3:00 EATING ONLINE: LOCAL FOOD BLOGGERS – Maria Bonn, Shana Kimball, Kim Bayer, Lisa Leutheuser; Moderator Bonnie Bucqueroux
4:00 CONVERSATION WITH JEFFERY DEAVER – International and New York Times best-selling author
CHILDREN’S TENT
11-4:00 PAPERMAKING – artist Karen O’Neal
11-4:00 PAPER MARBLING – artist Janet Osborn
12:00 CUPCAKE DECORATING ACTIVITY
1:00 THE BOOK THAT EATS PEOPLE – author John Perry
2:00 GREETING GRANDPARENTS – Mother Goose
3:00 ADVENTURES OF A NEPALI DOG – Heather O’Neal
4:00 DRAWING – with Ellie McDoodle author, Ruth McNally Barshaw
ON-GOING THROUGHOUT BOOKFEST
OLD & RARE BOOK APPRAISALS – Free book appraisals by local members of Antiquarian Booksellers of America Jay Platt, West Side Book Shop and Garrett Scott, Garrett Scott Bookseller
BOOK CONSERVATION TIPS – Tips on book repair and conservation from Jim Craven of UM Bentley Historical Library and Jon Buller of Bessenberg Bindery
BOOK & PAPER ARTS DEMONSTRATIONS – Various exhibitors and graduates of Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts in Farmers’ Market area
LINOTYPE STUDIO TOUR – Kent Burkhart offers a tour and demonstration of the historic Linotype equipment owned by his father, Ben Burkhart, in Kerrytown
3:00 CAKE WALK – Walk the circle in the Farmers’ Market to win cakes from local bakers and support Food Gatherers & Kerrytown BookFest!
Kerrytown Concert House
11:00 THE FIRST AMERICAN COOKBOOK BOOK COVER AWARD WINNERS
12:00 HUSBAND & WIFE WRITING TEAMS – Peter Ho Davies & Lynne Raughley and Michael Byers & Susan Hutton discuss their books, their writing process, and what it’s like for two writers living together
1:00 TRUE CRIME – Mardi Link, Patrick Brode, Steve Miller, Andrea Billups discuss crime writing in past and present; Moderator Laura James
2:00 FUTURE OF PRINT JOURNALISM – Mary Morgan (Ann Arbor Chronicle), Susan Carney (Detroit News), Tony Dearing (AnnArbor.com), Sharon Carty (USA Today); Moderator John Hilton (Ann Arbor Observer)
3:00 CONVERSATION WITH MARY ELLEN GEIST – Author of A Measure of the Heart, a Michigan Notable Book winner about Alzheimer’s Disease
4:00 COUNTERCULTURE & MUSIC OF THE 60’S – Authors Mark Shaw, Michael Rosenberg, Michael Erlewine, and photographer Tom Weschler; Moderator Bill Castanier
HOLLANDER’S SCHOOL OF BOOK & PAPER ARTS
11-4:00 EDIBLE BOOK EXHIBITION AND CONTEST
4:00 EDIBLE BOOK CONTEST HISTORY & AWARD WINNERS – Pat Lawrence presents a brief history of Edible Books followed by awards for Pun Intended, Most Book-Like, People’s Choice, and Best in Show presented by Ellen Mohoney (Food Gatherers), Jane and Michael Stern (Roadfood), and Don Etherington, last year’s Honorary Chair
HOLLANDER’S MINI WORKSHOPS — FARMERS’ MARKET
11:00 ACCORDION STYLE RECIPE BOOK – Barbara Brown, last year’s Kerrytown BookFest Community Book Award Recipient will lead workshop
1:00 CULINARY COLLAGE – Donna Engstrom teaches elements of design and composition in creating a collage from food magazines
3:00 COUPON HOLDER – Eric Alstrom takes participants through the steps of creating a non-adhesive, folded coupon holder
HOLLANDER’S UPSTAIRS KITCHEN
1:00 VEGETABLE PAPYRUS – Papermaker Karen O’Neal demonstrates the making of papyrus from leeks, eggplant, carrots, and mushrooms
2:00 FRESHMAN IN THE KITCHEN – Max and Eli Sussman cook from their book geared towards college students
This program sponsored in part by Ann Arbor Observer, Bank of Ann Arbor, City of Ann Arbor, Hollander’s, Kerrytown Concert House,
Kerrytown Market & Shops, WEMU, WUOM, and MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL, an affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities
For more information visit www.kerrytownbookfest.org
1 comment September 7, 2009
