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TICKETED EVENT: $40 - $150 +fees
Books & Bites: A Culinary Literary Affair returns in September with New York Times bestselling author Samin Nosrat. Books & Bites aims to raise awareness of the Cuyahoga County Public Library and the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation through literary works and building community over food. Proceeds raised from this fundraising event will benefit the Foundation, which supports Library programs and services. Learn more about the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation here: ccplfoundation.org.
Join us for an afternoon with chef, teacher, and author Samin Nosrat. All tickets include a seat at the author talk and a copy of Samin Nosrat’s new book, Good Things (all books will be pre-signed – there will be no post-event book signing). VIP tickets also include access to a pre-show reception where food and drinks will be served. This is the biggest annual fundraiser for the CCPL Foundation, which grants funds to various library programs and services.
Tickets:
General Admission Ticket = $40 +fees
VIP Ticket + Reception = $150 +fees
About the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation
The Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation exists to raise funds and awareness for the Cuyahoga County Public Library (CCPL). Each year, the CCPL Foundation designates funds from its fundraising efforts and investments back to the Library in areas where the need is greatest. Since its establishment, the CCPL Foundation has distributed more than $1 million to a variety of Library programs and initiatives—allowing the Library the flexibility to address the ever-changing needs of the communities we serve. The Foundation focuses on the support of vital programs and services that are in line with the Library’s strategic priorities. The programs and initiatives supported by the CCPL Foundation range from those focused on early childhood success and family engagement, student success, workforce development, and digital equity and inclusion. These unique services allow the library to be an even greater resource to Northeast Ohio. Learn more at ccplfoundation.org.
About the author:
Samin Nosrat is a chef, teacher, and author of the bestselling, James Beard Award–winning Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. She has been called “a go-to resource for matching the correct techniques with the best ingredients” by The New York Times and “the next Julia Child” by NPR’s All Things Considered. Samin is an Eat columnist for The New York Times Magazine and can be found eating, cooking, and laughing in the Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat documentary series on Netflix.
Good Things is an essential, joyful guide to cooking and living, whether you’re looking for a comforting tomato soup to console a struggling friend, seeking a deeper sense of connection in your life, or hosting a dinner for ten in your too-small dining room. Here you’ll find go-to recipes for ricotta custard pancakes, a showstopping roast chicken burnished with saffron, a crunchy, tingly Calabrian chili crisp, super-chewy sky-high focaccia, and a decades-in-the-making, childhood-evoking yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Along the way, you’ll also find plenty of tips, techniques, and lessons, from how to buy olive oil (check the harvest date) to when to splurge (salad dressing is where you want to use your best ingredients) to the best uses for your pressure cooker (chicken stock and dulce de leche, naturally).
With all the generosity of spirit that has endeared her to millions of fans, Samin Nosrat offers more than 125 of her favorite recipes—simply put, the things she most loves to cook for herself and for friends—and infuses them with all the beauty and care you would expect from the person Alice Waters called “America’s next great cooking teacher.” As Samin says, “Recipes, like rituals, endure because they’re passed down to us—whether by ancestors, neighbors, friends, strangers on the internet, or me to you. A written recipe is just a shimmering decoy for the true inheritance: the thread of connection that cooking it will unspool.”
FAQs
Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.
For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email foundation@cuyahogalibrary.org.
NO REFUNDS. If you are unable to attend the event, please contact foundation@cuyahogalibrary.org to claim the book(s) included with your ticket purchase and schedule pick up from the CCPL branch of your choice. Books not claimed within 7 days of the event will be donated to the Library.
Questions? Email us at foundation@cuyahogalibrary.org.
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The Parma-Snow Branch is home to the Sari Feldman Auditorium, a flexible, state-of-the-art venue for theatrical groups, recitals, concerts, meetings, speaker presentations, wedding receptions and other group events.
This branch is a Greater Cleveland Food Bank Kids Café location.
