Hollander's

2009 Kerrytown BookFest

August 20, 2009 at 8:35 pm 5 comments

On Sunday, September 13, the Kerrytown BookFest celebrates its 7th year with a special focus on culinary authors and related events. The BookFest, which draws several thousand people each year, is from 11:00 to 5:00 and is held at the Kerrytown Farmers’ Market.

Hollander’s Free Mini Workshops – Outdoors in the Farmers’ Market:
11:00 — 12:30 Accordion Style Recipe Book with Barbara Brown. Make a unique accordion book with the bottom edge folded up to make pockets.

1:00 — 2:30 A Culinary Collage with Donna Engstrom. Bring a food magazine and your imagination to this creative collage class!

3:00 — 4:30 Coupon Holder with Eric Alstrom. Learn a simple, yet elegant folded structure known as a blizzard book, made famous by book artist, Hedi Kyle. This structure is perfect for holding coupons.

Upstairs in Hollander’s Kitchen Store:
1:00 — 2:00 Vegetable Papyrus Demonstration with Karen O’Neal. “Real” Egyptian papyrus was made from the inner pith of the Papyrus plant. This demo will show you how to simulate making the original papyrus, using the same steps, but made from vegetable slices.

2:00 — 3:00 Freshman in the Kitchen Demonstration with Max and Eli Sussman. The Sussman brothers are recent college graduates with a wide range of cooking experiences. They recently published their first book, Freshman in the Kitchen.”

Downstairs in Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts:
An Edible Book Contest! New at this year’s Kerrytown BookFest is an edible book contest. Edible books must have something to do with books — book titles, characters, functioning books, book art. All of the entries must be at least partially edible! Awards will be given to ‘Best in Show’, ‘People’s Choice’, and ‘Most Bookike’.  Contact Cindy Hollander at Hollander’s for more information. Pat Lawrence will be give a presentation covering the history of edible books.

Other Culinary Highlights:
Ari Weinzweig co-founder and author of “Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon” will join a panel discussion with Jane and Michael Stern, NPR road show personalities and authors of 20 books on pop culture, along with Jan Longone, culinary historian at the U-M Clement’s Library. Jan is also this year’s Community Book Award recipient. The panel is sponsored by Michigan Radio and begins at noon.

Moderator Steve Klein of the Huron River Press leads a discussion with food authors Cynthia Furlong Reynolds (“Jiffy: A Family Tradition”), T.R. Durham (“The Smoked Seafood Cookbook”, Patty LaNoue Stearns (“Cherry Home Companion”) and Tom Bloomer, who coined the term “Michivore.”

A complete schedule of all events and authors is available at www.kerrytownbookfest.org

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