Name: Eat, Drink, and Be Literary
Start: 2016-10-09T11:00:00-0700
End: 2016-10-09T17:30:00-0700

Welcome to Litquake, San Francisco’s literary festival, now in our 17th year. Festival dates are October 7-15, 2016. Events are all-ages unless noted otherwise. Book sales are offered when and where appropriate. Events without ticket reservations are first-come first served. Click the phone icon to the right below, to download our new mobile app version!

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Eat, Drink, and Be Literary

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Litquake’s Eat, Drink, and Be Literary celebrates a range of ideas in food and writing. Throughout the day, nationally acclaimed chefs and food writers debate and explore the latest developments in food culture, sustainability, culinary trends, and the fundamental relationship between people and food. Attendees can interact with chefs, food media, culinary organizations, TV hosts, gluten-free experts, sea foragers, artisanal craft distillers, and a 7-time champion at the Grilled Cheese Invitational.

An exhibition hall features food and beverage tastings from the Bay Area’s most innovative producers, including Save Me San Francisco Wine Company, Broadside Wines, Sudwerk Brewing Co., and much more. Book sales and signings ongoing. $35 advance, or $40 at the door

Sponsored in part by:
ChefsFeed, Friends of the San Francisco Library, Guittard Chocolate Company, Hodo Soy, Moleskine, Runa Tea, Save Me San Francisco Wine Co., Semifreddi's, Shakespeare Vodka, Sudwerk Brewing Co.

SCHEDULE

11:00 am — Doors open

11:30 am–12:15 pm — New Vegetarian: Seeking Satiety in a Meat-Free Universe, moderated by Tara Duggan (San Francisco Chronicle), with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Miyoko Schinner, and Jason Wrobel

12:30 pm–1:00 pm — Welcome Address, Rich Maggiotto (ChefsFeed)

1:15 pm–2:00 pm — The Truth about Gluten: Redefining Our Daily Loaf, moderated by Irvin Lin with Sophie Egan, Stanley Ginsberg, and Alanna Taylor-Tobin

2:15 pm–3:00 pm — Culinary Memoirs: Why We Write about Food, moderated by Margo True (Sunset Magazine), with Georgeanne Brennan, Jessica Fechtor, Dayna Macy, and Alex Prud'homme

3:15 pm–3:45 pm — Chef Ryan Scott, Top Chef alum, whose book, One to Five, and restaurant Finn Town debut in late October, 2016

4:00 pm–4:45 pm — Beyond Sustainability: Connecting with the Food We Eat More Deeply, moderated by Anne Schukat (The Economist) with Novella Carpenter, Anya Fernald, Sarah Henry, and Michelle McKenzie

Featured author stations throughout the day:

Capra Press, Distilled Stories: California Artisans Behind the Spirits
Martin and Rebecca Cate, Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki
Frances Dinkelspiel, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
Heidi Gibson, Grilled Cheese Kitchen: Bread + Cheese + Everything in Between
Kirk Lombard, The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast
Carolyn Phillips, Dim Sum Field Guide and All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China

Vendors and Exhibitors:

Alter Eco, Broadside Wine, CocoTutti Chocolates, Edible Excursions, Good Eggs, KeVita kombucha, Miyoko's Kitchen, NOSH, Peter's Kettle Corn, Runa Tea, Shades of Sugar Bakeshop, Sudwerk Brewing Company, Shakespeare Vodka, and more.

Moderators/Hosts

Tara Duggan

Tara Duggan is a James Beard award–winning journalist and cookbook author. A staff food writer at The San Francisco Chronicle, Tara has published work in Food & Wine, The New York Times, Sunset, and the Chicago Tribune. Trained as a chef at San Francisco’s California Culinary... Read More →

Irvin Lin

Irvin Lin, the man behind the nationally recognized blog "Eat the Love" is a graphic designer and art director turned IACP award-winning photographer, food writer, recipe developer, baker, public speaker and occasional social media consultant. His work has been featured in Best Food... Read More →

Anne Schukat

Margo True

Margo True is the food editor at Sunset magazine. Before Sunset, she was executive editor at Saveur magazine, and before that, a senior editor and writer at Gourmet. True was the main editor of The Sunset Cookbook and, along with several Sunset colleagues, the author of The... Read More →

Participants

Georgeanne Brennan

Georgeanne Brennan is an award-winning cookbook author, journalist, and entrepreneur who is nationally recognized for her work. Her expertise ranges from cooking to farming and agriculture to history and food lore. In addition to her numerous books, Brennan’s work has appeared in... Read More →

Novella Carpenter

Novella Carpenter is the author of two books: Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad through the Wild; and co-author of The Essential Urban Farmer. She runs GhostTown Farm in Oakland, and teaches urban agriculture at University of San Francisco.

Martin Cate

Martin Cate is a rum and exotic cocktail expert and the owner and creator of Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco. Smuggler’s Cove features the largest rum selection in the United States and features cocktails from over three centuries of rum history. The Sunday Times of London has named Smuggler’s Cove one of the 50 Greatest Bars on Earth. In a global industry survey... Read More →

Frances Dinkelspiel

Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of the news site, Berkeleyside. She is the author of two books, the New York Times bestseller Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California, and the San Francisco Chronicle... Read More →

Sophie Egan

Sophie Egan is the director of programs and culinary nutrition for the Strategic Initiatives Group at The Culinary Institute of America. Based in San Francisco, Egan is a contributor to The New York Times' Well blog, and has written about food and health for KQED, Time, The Wall Street... Read More →

Jessica Fechtor

Jessica Fechtor is author of Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home, which chronicles her recovery from a ruptured brain aneurysm at 28, and how she reclaimed her life through food and cooking. A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 Living Now Book... Read More →

Anya Fernald

Anya Fernald is a sustainable food expert and CEO and co-founder of Belcampo Inc., a group of agricultural ventures in California and Belize. She was the Executive Director of Slow Food Nation and founded the non-profit Food Craft Institute, which hosts the annual Eat Real Festival... Read More →

Heidi Gibson

Heidi Gibson, a MIT-trained engineer, opened the first American Grilled Cheese Kitchen with her husband and partner Nate in 2010. As a 7-time champion at the Grilled Cheese Invitational, Heidi is thrilled to share the secrets to grilled cheese perfection in her first cookbook, Grilled... Read More →

Stanley Ginsberg

Stanley Ginsberg, author of the upcoming The Rye Baker (W.W. Norton & Co., Sept. 2015), is owner-proprietor of The New York Bakers (www.nybakers.com), an online purveyor of professional baking ingredients, supplies and equipment to home and hobbyist bakers. His first book, Inside... Read More →

Sarah Henry

Sarah Henry is a freelance writer and author of Farmsteads of the California Coast (Yellow Pear Press, April 2016). Henry’s food stories have appeared in Lucky Peach, Modern Farmer, Civil Eats, Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle. Featured in Best Food Writing (Da Capo... Read More →

Kirk Lombard

Kirk Lombard, the singing fisherman and monkeyface eel champion, founded Sea Forager, the CSF sustainable fish delivery business and sea foraging tour guide business in San Francisco. A Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast is forthcoming from Heyday in 2016.

Dayna Macy

Dayna Macy is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ravenous: A Food Lover's Journey from Obsession to Freedom. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies and in Salon, Self, Yoga Journal, and other publications. Macy has been the head of publicity for many west coast... Read More →

Rich Maggiotto

ChefsFeed

Rich Maggiotto is the CEO of ChefsFeed, and serves as an advisor to numerous of digital media and publishing startups. Previous to leading the first ever chef-powered food media company, Rich co-founded and served as President & CEO of Zinio, whose top-grossing mobile applications in... Read More →

Michelle McKenzie

Michelle McKenzie is the program director at 18 Reasons, a nonprofit community cooking school in San Francisco's Mission District. She has worked at some of the best restaurants in the country, has been featured on the Cooking Channel, and has been a contributor for publications such... Read More →

Alice Medrich

Alice Medrich is the winner of five James Beard Foundation Awards, most recently Best Baking & Dessert Book of the Year for her tenth cookbook, Flavor Flours (Artisan Books, November 2014). She received her formal training at the prestigious École Lenôtre in France and is widely... Read More →

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau is a bestselling author of seven books, including The Joy of Vegan Baking and The 30-Day Vegan Challenge. She is also a podcaster, international speaker, and passionista for compassion. Her mission is to empower people to reflect their deepest values in... Read More →

Carolyn Phillips

Carolyn Phillips is a food writer, scholar, and artist. Her work has appeared in numerous places, including Best Food Writing 2015, Lucky Peach, Gastronomica, BuzzFeed, Alimentum, Huffington Post, ZesterDaily, Food52, and at the 2013 MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, as well as her... Read More →

Capra Press

Capra Press and the California Artisanal Distillers Guild (http://www.cadistillers.org) have collaborated on a book titled Distilled Stories: California Artisans Behind the Spirits. It’s the backstory of many of the California artisanal craft distillers and how they found their... Read More →

Alex Prud'homme

Alex Prud'homme, author of The French Chef in America, is Julia Child's great-nephew and the coauthor of her autobiography My Life in France, which was adapted into the movie Julie & Julia. He is also the author of The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century... Read More →

Miyoko Schinner

Miyoko Schinner is author of five cookbooks, including The Homemade Vegan Pantry: The Art of Making Your Own Staples, and Artisan Vegan Cheese. A passionate vegan chef and serial entrepreneur, in 2014 she launched an artisan vegan cheese company, Miyoko’s Kitchen, which quickly... Read More →

Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott is a chef, restauranteur, and an Emmy-Award winning food host. He appears regularly on national television, including Today and Rachael Ray, and is host of The Ryan Scott Show, a weekly radio show. Ryan is chef and owner of Finn Town in San Francisco. His new book, One... Read More →

Alanna Taylor-Tobin

Founder, The Bojon Gourmet

Alanna is a food stylist, photographer, and trained pastry chef who has worked in the food industry for over a decade. In 2009, she began the acclaimed recipe blog The Bojon Gourmet (bojon=no job, backwards). Her recipes and food photography have been featured across the web (Food52... Read More →

Sean Timberlake

Master of Ceremonies Sean Timberlake has written professionally for 20 years. He started his personal blog, Hedonia, in 2006, and launched Punk Domestics, a community for DIY and food preservation enthusiasts, in 2010. His work has appeared in Sunset Magazine, Make:Magazine, Cooking... Read More →

Jason Wrobel

Jason Wrobel is a graduate of the Living Light Culinary Institute and was host of How to Live to 100, the first vegan primetime cooking series on Cooking Channel. He hosts the popular YouTube channel The J-Wro Show, and is author of the new Hay House cookbook, Eaternity. He... Read More →

Sunday October 9, 2016 11:00am - 5:30pm PDT
The Chapel

Nonfiction Type: Book Sales & Signing Type: Panel Discussion Venue: 21+ Venue: Ticketed Venue: Wheelchair Accessible

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