Thursday May 24, 7pm

Bestselling author and food writer Debra Samuels uses her unique skills and deep love of Japan to make the cuisine of her adopted country attainable in My Japanese Table.

Join her for a free cooking workshop, where she will teach us to make authentic Japanese cuisine.

Read about the event in the Boston Globe!

Tuesday June 5, 7pm

Join New England’s most acclaimed award-winning crime and mystery writers for a reading and discussion of their book.

Thursday June 21, 7pm

Jim Henle, Laurie Rosenblatt, and Susan Jo Russell are 3 of the members of the Henry Street Poets.  They have been writing together for over 10 years. They’ll present a lively round-robin of poetry.

Jim lives and works in Cambridge.  He cofounded the Ellen LaForge Memorial Poetry Foundation and co-organized a “Poets for Haiti” benefit for earthquake relief.  Jim’s recent work has appeared in Sanctuary and Consequence. Laurie is a psychiatrist and poet whose new book In Case is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. Cloud 10, a collaboration with the painter Richard Raiselis, has just been published, and her chapbook Blue (University of Toledo Press) is also due out in 2012. Susan Jo Russell is an education writer from Somerville. Her long poem, “Southern Girl, Chicago, 1943-1946,” based on letters her father wrote to her mother during World War II, won the 2009 Chautauqua poetry prize.  Her chapbook, We Are Not Entirely Abandoned, was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press.

Thursday July 19, 7pm

An up-close look at grassfed beef, Pure Beef chronicles the rural education of a city transplant and former vegetarian among the ranchers and cattle of the eastern Oregon grasslands. Along with in-depth and illustrated beef cooking instructions, this cookbook presents a trove of modern and creative beef recipes arranged by cut for easy reference. Join author Lynne Curry for a demo and discussion of her book!