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	Thurs. May 17 • Peter Kaminsky • Culinary Intelligence: The Art of Eating Healthy • 6-7 p.m. • FREE For many of us the idea of healthy eating equals bland food, calorie counting, and general joylessness. Or we see the task of great cooking for ourselves as a complicated and expensive luxury beyond our means or ability. Now Peter Kaminsky—who has written cookbooks with four-star chefs (for example, Daniel Boulud) and no-star chefs (such as football legend John Madden)—shows us that anyone can learn to eat food that is absolutely delicious and doesn’t give you a permanently creeping waistline. Add this event to your calendar.
	Sat. May 19 • Thomas McNamee • The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance • 3-4 p.m. • FREE From the bestselling author of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse comes the first biography of the passionate gastronome and troubled genius who became the most powerful force in the history of American food—the founding father of the American food revolution. From his first day in 1957 as the food editor of the New York Times, Craig Claiborne was going to take his readers where they had never been before. Claiborne extolled the pleasures of exotic cuisines from all around the world, and with his inspiration, restaurants of every ethnicity blossomed. Add this event to your calendar.
	Sun. May 20 • Cheryl Tan • A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family • 3-4 p.m. • FREE "Cheryl Tan, A Tiger in the Kitchen, keeps coming back to Singapore in pursuit of the haunting flavors of childhood meals and finds a part of herself she didn't know existed in the kitchens of her loving aunties." —Gael Greene Add this event to your calendar.
	Wed. May 23 • John T. Edge • The Food Truck Cookbook • 6-7 p.m. • FREE This is the best of street food: bold, delicious, surprising, over-the-top goodness to eat on the run. And the best part is now you can make it at home. Obsessively researched by Southern food authority John T. Edge, The Truck Food Cookbook delivers 150 recipes from America’s best restaurants on wheels, from L.A. and New York to the truck food scenes in Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, and more. —Gael Greene Add this event to your calendar.
	Fri. June 1 • Miranda Gardiner • Teaching Dad to Cook Flapjack • 6-7 p.m. • FREE "The book was written after my mother's death…It started as an informal how-to-do manual for my dad, learning to cook and fend for himself for the first time. A man who could drive a car, tell you about the inside of a camera but couldn't cook his own supper. I started by showing him how to cook some of mum's things. The first recipe in 'his' book was for Chewy Flapjack, which appeals both to his sweet tooth and frequent request for 'anything to go with a cup of tea'." - Miranda Gardiner. Add this event to your calendar.
	Sat. June 2 • Anne Willan • The Cookbook Library: Four Centurie of the Cooks, Writers and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook • 3-4 p.m. • FREE "Collecting cookbooks is an exciting, provoking, challenging, and rewarding passion. In The Cookbook Library, Anne Willan gives us a fascinating collection of stories and recipes from European and early American historical cookbooks. It is a must for anyone interested in culinary history." —Jacques Pepin. Add this event to your calendar.